Spotlight Medical, a Paris-based precision medicine company aiming to solve “the critical issue of inadequate cancer treatments”, has successfully secured €6.2 million in seed funding for AI-driven prognosis tests designed to help improve cancer treatment. Spotlight Medical shared news of the funding on LinkedIn, highlighting how it would help to […]
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Netherlands Ministry of Health to procure €100m infection and disease control platform
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 […]
Interview: Dr Nojus Saad, president/CEO of Youth For Women Foundation & digital healthcare researcher
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 […]
Fifth edition of French Digital Health Doctrine places focus on cyber security
The fifth edition of the Digital Health Doctrine for France has been published as a “reference document for actors in the e-health ecosystem, who develop or operate digital services” for healthcare workers and users. The doctrine highlights ongoing work in interoperability, including the new Cadre d’Interopérabilité des Systèmes d’Information de […]
Ireland sets out roadmap in Digital Health Framework for 2024 – 2030
The Irish Department of Health has published Ireland’s digital health framework for 2024 – 2030, setting out a roadmap for digital transformation across the nation’s health services, covering the roll-out of a shared care record, the deployment of electronic health records (EHRs), a new patient app, and more. A “key […]
Children’s Health Ireland announces that new children’s hospital will be “fully digital”
In a LinkedIn post, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has announced that its new children’s hospital will be “fully digital”, equipped with a new electronic health record (EHR) and using tech for the management and delivery of health services, “moving from old paper-based systems to digital systems”. CHI refers to Project […]
Norway collab seeks to accelerate clinical studies with international marketing support
A new collaboration between HealthCatalyst AS and NorTrials is seeking to accelerate clinical studies and testing in Norway, offering a “common contact point” and support with international marketing for companies, healthcare staff and researchers. HealthCatalyst AS represents an existing collaboration between the three health clusters: Norway Health Tech, Norwegian Smart […]
Germany: Recare secures €3.2 million euros in funding for digital discharge management platform
Berlin-based health tech company Recare has successfully secured €3.2 million euros in funding for its digital discharge management platform, which helps facilitate the transfer of patients from hospitals to post-care providers, offering potential cost savings by optimising length of stay and increasing efficiency within the discharge pathway. Launched in 2017, […]
The Netherlands: MindAffect raises €1.1 million for “brain response-based hearing diagnostic tool”
The Netherlands-based start-up, MindAffect, has succeeded in raising €1.1 million for Aurora, a “brain response-based hearing diagnostic tool” developed to overcome the “significant challenges with standard diagnostic tests that require active responses”, particularly for children and those with disabilities. The NLC Health Ventures backed company’s funding round successfully secured investment […]
Deep dive: digital health in in Slovenia
Early last year, the Slovenian Ministry of Health declared that “digitalisation is the key step to a modern health system”, following the presentation of the healthcare digitisation strategy for Slovenia until 2027. Slovenian Minister of Health Danijel Bešič Loredan voiced a commitment to ensuring that digital healthcare in Slovenia will […]