Opinion Article by Dr. Guy Wood-Gush, CEO of Deontics.
A turning pointing for artificial intelligence (AI) came when the computer Deep Blue beat world champion Garry Kasparov at chess 18 years ago. Since those early days some of the best minds have been working on applying AI in medicine. Today, I'd like to see where AI could take us in clinical practice.

Telemedicine is a growing sector and market answering to an increasing medical need to improve healthcare organisations and health systems effectiveness. Numerous telemedicine activities and projects are emerging in France, favorited by a specific legislation, and supported by encouraging health policies from ministry and health regional agencies, as well as health care professionals and industry.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that the Netherlands-based LabPON has become the first clinical pathology laboratory in the world to have transitioned completely to digital diagnosis. With this shift, all clinical histology cases are now being assessed and diagnosed digitally with the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution instead of with a microscope, leading to improved laboratory efficiency, quality and service levels.

Doctors 2.0 & You announced the 2015 winners of the digital health start-up contest, CanSurround, represented by Meg Maley, CEO and Liza Bernstein advisor in first place and MedClinik, the runner-up represented by Claire Kamoun, CanSurround is based in Wilmington, Delaware and MedClinik in Montreal, Quebec.

Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of technology-enabled care services (TECS) has worked with Adaptive Technology Europe Ltd (ATEL) to develop, design and deliver specialist adaptive technology that supports a range of service users living with learning disabilities and complex behaviours in supported living environments.

Recently merged Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust contracted Stalis, specialists in integrated care record solutions, to conduct the large-scale data migration and archive project ensuring only accurate, valid and complete data was fed into the trust's new electronic patient record (EPR) system for University Hospital Lewisham, which went live with Cerner Millennium at the end of May.

Opinion Article by Dr. Julia Fishman, Vice President Clinical Operations at TeleTracking Technologies.
We can't hide from the huge financial challenge facing the NHS. The well-documented numbers are staggering - productivity improvements are needed immediately to meet a predicted £30bn annual funding gap by 2021. To put this into perspective, £30bn would pay for over 130,000 nurses, which accounted for 35% of England's nursing workforce in 2014.