EMEA News

Raising digital maturity in the Middle East is a key focus in many GCC markets and HIMSS has therefore announced a high-level Dubai CIO Summit, on 23 January 2022, to drive regional and international exchange in support of ongoing digital maturity initiatives.

The collaboration between the UAE capital’s Department of Health and Novartis will be dedicated to cardiovascular diseases – a leading cause of death in the Gulf nation.

The funding is for new technology to help tackle patient waiting lists.

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

Also, Dutch medical AI-company Thirona closes financing round.

In an age of clinician burnout and patient backlogs, technology and artificial intelligence can help lighten the load and take electronic health records to the next level.

Baseimmune’s technology predicts future strains and designs antigens to protect against them.

Though deeply challenging on so many levels, the COVID cloud has had some silver linings for healthcare. One has been a growing realisation of the critical importance of interoperability between systems for telehealth to fulfil its potential, as a new webinar explores.

UK citizens can now digitally verify their vaccination status through the EU's system.

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