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• All healthcare facilities in Abu Dhabi connected to Malaffi platform through image exchange solution
• Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care adopts cancer-specific EPR and expands patient app
• WHO Summit of the Future highlights tech use cases and digital public health infrastructure
• University of Iowa Health Care utilises AI for patient care and clinician wellbeing
• France continues rollout of solution to modernise emergency information systems
• Finnish/US collaboration to leverage AI and digital twins to aid in cancer drug discovery
• Interview: Benedict Tan, group chief digital strategy officer and chief data officer at SingHealth, Singapore
• French app for future parents raises €7 million for European expansion
• Diagnostic imaging central intake system implemented in Northwestern Ontario
• UNICEF reports on digital transformation highlighting AI, security and children’s health data
• FDA approves deep learning cardiac imaging solution to assess risk of cardiovascular events
• Zambian Ministry of Health begins rollout of digital health systems in hospitals across the country
• Urgences-santé Quebec announces AI initiative to enhance pre-hospital care planning
• NY’s Mount Sinai Health System and IBM Research launch PREDiCTOR AI study
• Royal Columbian Hospital goes live with new EHR
• Estonian hospitals pilot digital mental health screening and assessment platform
• Presight to “set the pace of digital transformation” in Jordan’s healthcare sector
• ICUdata project focuses on EHR data collaboration in The Netherlands and beyond
• Unity Health Toronto prepares for EPR launch
• Interview: Kumar Satyam, digital health consultant and chair for the technical committee at HL7 India
• USA non-profit organisations OCHIN and OSIS team up to enhance EHR strategies
• Lagos Ministry of Health shares insight into Lagos SHIP (State Health Information Platform)
• Accenture acquires German healthcare management consultancy consus.health
• Insights: Itransition, Georgia, on creating software solutions for healthcare
• Applications open for French funding programme to support digital transformation in healthcare
• Interview: Sabria Lagoun, former programme manager at Health Hub Vienna and AI innovation manager at MSD Österreich
• Singapore’s Thomson Medical goes live with electronic medical record
• Announcing the first Health Tech International Awards finalists!
• US-based provider secures $180m for AI-powered precision surgery platform
• Dubai Health Authority publishes guidance for selecting and implementing healthcare EMRs
• Launch of patient summary features to support information sharing in New Brunswick, Canada
• Victoria accepts recommendations on “future system” to improve access and equity in health
• US Biden-Harris administration publishes report on open source-software security initiative
• Berlin tech company raises €3.7 million for clinical large language model
• Applications open for female tech mentorship in Africa
• MEDITECH launches EHR-agnostic health information exchange network
• US trial utilising messaging to improve self-management moves to implementation phase
• Interview: Kate Renzenbrink, CCIO at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne
• Future Plan 2050 from German teaching hospital: featuring smart buildings, AI, and robotics
• Funding call encourages innovative collaborations on preventive health in The Netherlands
• Canadian global innovation cluster makes $44m commitment to advancing AI health tech
• Study highlights gaps in regulation for telemedicine and digital health in Ghana
• Legal framework AI Act enters into force in Europe
• UNICEF launches Digital Health Enterprise Planning Course to support transformation in India
• Ministry of Health begins implementation of unified medical record in Brazil
• WHO issues call for comments on draft digital transformation handbook
• Intron Health raises $1.6m in pre-seed funding to develop clinical speech recognition tech across Africa
• First of 21 linear accelerators installed in Croatian hospitals with €85m pledge for oncology care
• HIMSS Digital Health Indicator to be deployed at Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
• Tietoevry Care’s openEHR platform procured for Swedish university hospital
• Expansion of paediatric remote monitoring at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Interview: Cheryl Fenwick Evans on data use within Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
• New collaboration on digital tech in health, informatics and data science announced in Australia
• France’s Spotlight Medical secures €6.2m in seed funding for AI cancer prognosis
• Government of Nova Scotia announces expansion of YourHealthNS app
• WHO releases new support tool for assessing and strengthening telemedicine services
• Albany Med Health System shares news on progress and expansion with Epic EMR
• Netherlands Ministry of Health to procure €100m infection and disease control platform
• Interview: Dr Nojus Saad, president/CEO of Youth For Women Foundation & digital healthcare researcher
• Three Canadian SMEs selected for UK innovative health accelerator programme
• Australian roadmap for healthcare identifiers sets out plan to encourage uptake
• WHO’s “one stop shop of international information” now publicly available
• US’s Better Health secures $14m in funding for solution to support chronic condition care
• Endoscopy reporting software implemented in Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital, Zambia
• Interview: Rich Temple, vice president and CIO at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, New Jersey
• Auckland University of Technology launches new pathway for paramedicine students
• Spain’s Mediktor acquires San Francisco-based provider Sensely
• Australian Digital Health Agency to source solutions and services in support of transformation vision
• $20m donation sees creation of new fund for Mayo Clinic’s AI innovation for cancer
• Interview: Ryl Jensen, CEO of New Zealand’s Digital Health Association
• WHO releases technical brief on the role of AI in sexual and reproductive health
• HIMSS recommendations on diverse engagement for system design
• Argentinian Ministry of Health launches PAHO collaboration on new tool for health workers
• Interview: Aaron Miri, senior vice president and CDIO at Baptist Health, Florida
• Canada: Island Health continues roll-out of EPR featuring barcode scanners to track patient care
• California’s Maxim AI raises $3m to support scaling of operations
• Australia: National Healthcare Interoperability Plan up to 2028 focuses on high quality data, digitally enabled models of care, and sharing information across the healthcare system
• Exploring health tech, digital transformation and innovation in Mexico
• Gauteng Department of Health in South Africa to digitise a minimum of 800m patient records over three years
• Predictive model helps identify patients at risk of missing appointments in Cleveland, US
• Interview: Ted Scott, VP of innovation and partnerships at Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario
• India: Union health secretary acknowledges need for enhanced BRICS collaboration to advance digital solutions at 77th World Health Assembly
• Fifth edition of French Digital Health Doctrine places focus on cyber security
• Government of Canada agrees $256m investment to support Newfoundland and Labrador in three-year healthcare action plan
• Dutch insurer VGZ invests €6m in NLC Health Ventures for early-stage innovations
• Interview: Siuwin Wang, director of business analytics and health information management at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Canada
• New hospital with “advanced digital technology” opens in Dubai
• Interview: Irina Shymko, VP of business development at Ukrainian start-up Datuum.AI
• US’s LunaJoy Health launches integrated care programme for maternal mental health
• Australia to collaborate with UK and US to decarbonise healthcare supply chains
• Interview: Muhammad Javeed, Bitsol Technologies Global, on AI in healthcare
• “We cannot continue to fly blind”: WHO announces launch of World Health Statistics report 2024, highlighting need for “better data”
• Deep dive: digital health in Kenya
• Ireland sets out roadmap in Digital Health Framework for 2024 – 2030
• Boston Children’s Hospital pilots AI imaging analysis in paediatric radiology
• Interview: Dr Zafar Chaudry, senior vice president and CDIO at Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Children’s Health Ireland announces that new children’s hospital will be “fully digital”
• Health Tech International Awards 2024: deadline 23 May
• Pan American Health Organization urges adoption of innovative tech to help eliminate TB
• Indian Peerless Hospital launches “humanoid robotics” for joint replacement surgery