Fiona Keating

The grant for the trusts will help improve digital and data solutions in the roll-out of a national programme.

Tech giant Verizon Business and Visionable, a health tech company are collaborating to launch a UK-based Connected Healthcare Centre in 2022.

Greater demand for digital solutions in healthcare sector has been accelerated by COVID-19 pandemic.

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and HIMSS co-hosted the third annual Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe (DHAGE) and agreed that digital services should be based on public, rather than organisational, need.

The NHS has received an extra £5.9bn in today’s budget, with UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling the funding “game changing”.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to award a fund of £2.3bn in this year’s Budget, which will go towards improving IT and technology in NHS hospitals in England.