Population and Public Health

The four-year agreement is estimated to be worth £5 billion.

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

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 system has been trialled at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

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

Both passes will become available later in November. 

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

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.