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WHAT HAPPENED A pan-European network focusing on robotics is aiming to reduce barriers to adoption by creating a platform for healthcare and technology providers to collaborate.

Chief information officer Miikka Korja talks about Helsinki University Hospital's approach to adopting AI solutions in daily practice.

An interview with Grahame Grieve, FHIR Product Director at HL7 International.

Most maternity providers in England are making a "good start" in adopting digital technologies, according to a new report by NHS Digital.

Wherever you go in Europe, AI is already there.

The European Commission, EU member states, Norway and Switzerland have developed a plan to boost collaboration and further the development and use of AI in Europe, prioritising areas of public interest, including healthcare and transport.

Thousands of women in England were “warned unnecessarily” that they did not receive an invitation to a final routine breast screening in an incident believed to have been caused by an IT error, according to an independent review released this month.

From Google hiring Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to drive its health care initiatives, then moving DeepMind’s Streams team under his supervision, to Apple getting its first FDA clearance for an atrial fibrillation-detecting algorithm and an ECG built into its Watch, it seems that big tech companies have been making significant strides during the past year in paving the way toward disrupting health care.

Researchers in the UK will collect a range of data from five million healthy volunteers to develop diagnostic tests using AI and other cutting-edge technologies to detect and diagnose diseases earlier in a study thought to be the largest of its kind.

The number of people seeking health information online across EU countries nearly doubled last year, compared to figures from 2008, according to research cited in a new report from the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).