EMEA News

UAE capital’s healthcare sector celebrates achievement one year on from the launch of HIE platform, Malaffi.

Eye clinic visits have declined sharply in the COVID-19 era of social distancing, threatening the sight of thousands of people with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Remote vision monitoring technology could be critical for supporting this vulnerable population.

Also, Switzerland’s Health n Go blockchain health certificate app shows the effectiveness of digitally delivered health certificates.

Takeaways from Alison Byrne, FGM specialised midwife at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust, and Lina Chan, founder and CEO of Parla, who will be speaking at HIMSS Europe Digital.

Visualisations are receiving considerable attention in the age of COVID-19, but is there more to them than meets the eye?

An interview with Prof. Jan Semenza, lead of the health determinants programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, who will be speaking at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event that is due to kick off on 7 September.

With uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 ramifications, healthcare organisations need to establish resilient and agile systems going forward. The facilitation of clinical decision support solutions reduces unwarranted variability. 

The extra £50 million investment will boost improvements in technology across the NHS to speed up the diagnoses of diseases like cancer.

The UK’s Royal Marsden Hospital in London has developed an e-form solution using Hyland OnBase that captures and tracks COVID-19 symptom responses from cancer patients remotely, prior to an appointment or treatment visit.

Facing unprecedented challenges, many healthcare organisations and government institutions have turned to Watson Assistant, IBM’s AI-powered virtual agent to assist in responding to the deluge of inquiries from patients, employees, and the public at large.