Monday, September 16, 2024
The Government of Nova Scotia has announced the expansion of the YourHealthNS app to allow patients to access more information about X-ray results, with Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson commenting that “this is just the beginning”. From this week, residents of Nova Scotia will be able to access X-ray […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new support tool to help health systems in assessing and strengthening their telemedicine services, presenting a “comprehensive framework” addressing the “critical need” for accessible and effective telemedicine solutions. According to the accompanying guidance, the support tool “facilitates the creation of high-quality telemedicine […]
Albany Med Health System has shared the latest on progress with its electronic medical record journey with Epic, welcoming new features and preparing to expand the platform across more hospitals in the network by this autumn. Following Albany Medical Center’s go live of the Epic solution in March this year, […]
The Ministry of Health in the Netherlands has issued a tender for the procurement of a platform, services and infection disease control system worth an estimated €100 million. The tender highlights that the Ministry of Health seeks a solution including “working pandemic-functional solutions” managed and maintained by the contractor, using […]
For our latest interview, we posed some questions to Dr Nojus Saad, president and CEO of the Youth For Women Foundation, France, and digital healthcare researcher and ambassador across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Nojus shared his experiences and insights from the field of digital healthcare spanning […]
Three Canadian SMEs have been selected for the UK’s Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber Propel@YH Boot Camp, bringing with them their innovative solutions designed to advance the health of the region’s population. The boot camp forms part of Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber’s commitment to bringing “the best health innovations […]
The Australian Government has highlighted the publication of the National Healthcare Identifiers Roadmap from the Australian Digital Health Agency, running until 2028 and described as a strategic plan to drive uptake and encourage use of healthcare identifiers on a more consistent basis, to help ensure certainty about who is being […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its MeDevIS (Medical Devices Information System) platform, designed to offer information on medical devices to improve standardisation and support procurement decision-making. Originally becoming operational in March this year for the purposes of consultation, MeDevIS has been publicly released by WHO this week. At […]
San Francisco-based Better Health has announced the securing of $14 million in funding for its solution providing support for those with chronic illness. Better Health works to simplify the “burdensome process” of accessing home medical supplies, by providing a single point of contact for referrals, insurance and care coordination and […]
Endoscopy reporting software funded by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) has been implemented in Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital, Zambia, to support auditing and the uploading of information to electronic medical records. Nimzing Ladep, consultant hepatologist and software developer, and Mel MacCallum, endoscopy sister and international BSG committee chair […]
