Following a successful pilot programme to deliver more integrated care to heart failure patients, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out the InterSystems HealthShare® health informatics platform across the area's health and social care community.

Hospitals across England, Scotland and New Zealand have been recognised for innovative work to save lives by judging panels across the world, after achieving a major impact on patient safety with Patientrack.

GSK (LSE/NYSE: GSK) has announced an agreement with Verily Life Sciences LLC (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company, to form Galvani Bioelectronics to enable the research, development and commercialisation of bioelectronic medicines. GSK will hold a 55% equity interest in the new jointly owned company and Verily will hold 45%.

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has launched the Zika Resource Portal, a single point of access to trusted clinical knowledge and current information to help healthcare professionals worldwide stay up-to-date on the rapidly spreading virus.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the global availability of wearable technologies and the first in a series of personal health programs that empower consumers to take greater control of their health. The medical-grade health monitoring devices - a health watch, connected scale, blood pressure monitor and thermometer - and a fully integrated companion HealthSuite Health App is available

Opinion Article by Dr Saif F Abed, EMEA Medical Director at Imprivata.
Take the perfect recipe for a new model of care. A well thought out local digital roadmap to improve efficiency through IT, a forward thinking acute trust, collaborative partners across care settings and a novel vanguard model, all combine to create a project with the potential to achieve local and national integrated care objectives.