French health tech start-up Sorella has successfully secured €5 million in funding, which is set to go towards advancing the company’s tech for women’s health and the expansion of its multidisciplinary health clinics for women. In a LinkedIn post, Sorella announced the results of its latest fundraising efforts, calling the […]
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France: Dassault Systèmes launches virtual twin of Saint-Louis Hospital’s dialysis unit
Dassault Systèmes has announced the launch of a virtual twin project in collaboration with the Saint-Louis Hospital AP-HP in Paris, with aims of improving understanding around the respiratory transmission of viruses and optimising patient care. The project uses augmented reality to create a virtual twin of the hospital’s dialysis unit, allowing […]
Interview: Tino Marti, digital health economist, on digital health initiatives in Spain
We recently caught up with Tino Marti, a digital health economist based in Spain, to talk about recent projects he has been involved with, European perspectives, and future directions in health technology. Tino is currently digital health facilitator at the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) based in Brussels, Belgium, which […]
NLC Health Ventures (Netherlands) secures €58m in funding for health tech venture building
Dutch company NLC Health Ventures has announced that it has secured a total of €58 million in funding, including €14 million from a recent funding round, which will be used to “accelerate NLC’s strategic plans for international expansion”, increasing the number of ventures built and “strengthening support” for its existing […]
French consortium explores possibilities of virtual twins for medical practice
In France, the launch of the MEDITWIN consortium has been announced to explore the possibilities of virtual twins for medical practice, with the aim of enabling doctors to simulate scenarios, and to develop seven new medical practices and “virtual healthcare products” across neurology, cardiology, and oncology. The consortium consists of […]
44 new EU4Health grants mark progress on future European Health Data Space
The European Health and Digital Executive Agency has announced 44 new EU4Health direct grants in the field of digital health with the aim of supporting EU countries in implementing the future European Health Data Space. The grants form part of a wider portfolio of projects that the €5.3 billion EU4Health […]
Deep dive: digital health and innovation in Estonia
Join us as we take a deep dive into digital health and innovation in Estonia, to find out more about the nation’s digital transformation and how it is embracing technology in the realms of health and care. Electronic health records, the national health information system, and electronic prescriptions Firstly: what […]
European PAIR project launches interactive tools to support point-of-care diagnostics and epidemiological modelling
A new EU-funded five-year project, “PAIR”, has been launched in the hopes of improving point-of-care (POC) diagnostics and epidemiological modelling, bringing together 20 partners from seven countries with the aim of helping Europe to develop expertise and capabilities in this area based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Utilising the […]
Interview: John Klepper, CEO and co-founder of Swiss company PIPRA [Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment]
Whilst at Web Summit, we met up with John Klepper, co-founder and CEO of PIPRA (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment), a Zurich-based medtech company that has developed its first product; an AI-based surgical tool to assess a patients’ risk of suffering from postoperative delirium. Hi John! Thanks for meeting us. Can […]
Health in the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy
Here, we take a look at the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy, Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria 2030 (AIM AT 2030), which is “the result of an extensive stakeholder process in which more than 160 experts from different disciplines were involved”, to consider its provisions for the use of AI in […]