David Hancock, a long-standing expert on the health tech industry with a passion for interoperability, has become an associate of Highland Marketing.

In his new role, David will support clients of the specialist digital health agency that need advice on market entry or positioning, so they can communicate effectively with IT leaders at every level.

Opinion Article by Dr Mark Ratnarajah, NHS Paediatrician, UK Managing Director, C2-Ai.
Clinical teams continue to work relentlessly to get through the elective backlog. I see it every day with frontline colleagues, and with clinical leads I speak to at organisational and regional levels. Their aim is to help as many patients as possible in the face of a highly complex and enduring peri-pandemic challenge.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced the debut of Philips Virtual Care Management, a comprehensive portfolio of flexible solutions and services to help health systems, providers, payers and employer groups more meaningfully motivate and deeply connect with patients from virtually anywhere.

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company, has integrated advanced AI chat functionality based on recent advances in large language models into its PandaOmics platform. The new feature, "ChatPandaGPT," enables researchers to have natural language conversations with the platform and efficiently navigate and analyze large datasets, facilitating the discovery of potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers in a more efficient manner.

BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company and wholly-owned, independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced a collaboration with Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations focused on using wearable and invisible contactless digital health technology to improve monitoring and data collection for Parkinson's disease clinical trials.

Opinion Article by Martin Dean, System Architect, CaseCapture.
Healthcare professionals don't want to spend their time with clinical audit software. This might appear an unusual statement for someone who builds that very technology. But for me, recognising this is one of the most important parts of meeting the needs of our clinical users, and ultimately their patients.

Surgeons say the NHS 'Waiting Well' initiative now has national relevance - the project has already shown improved outcomes, reduced complications and shorter stays for patients taking part, at a time when more than seven million people in England are on waiting lists.

Led by integrated care board NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, with the support of technology partner C2-Ai and health coaching provider Surgery Hero, the programme is helping to locate and provide urgently needed support for some of the most vulnerable patients awaiting surgery.