The two healthcare innovation experts Medical Valley EMN and Volitan Global strengthen their existing inbound- and outbound activities through a strategic partnership. The aim is to offer companies access to international markets and to provide them with an excellent network as well as profound expertise.

Healthcare professionals across East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust will receive an upgrade in their patient flow technology, following an agreement with smart healthcare IT provider Alcidion to deploy Miya Flow.

The new system will help busy wards and clinical teams, located across the large integrated healthcare organisation’s acute hospitals and community settings, to ensure streamlined admission, timely care and effective discharge management of patients.

Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced a new target to complete the digitisation of the acute sector. The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the approach being developed by NHS England's transformation directorate, and the challenges to making it work.

In the first week of February, the Health Service Journal reported that it had seen a PowerPoint presentation of the digital plans being drawn-up by NHS England's transformation directorate, which is absorbing NHSX and NHS Digital.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Oulu University Hospital (Finland) announced a strategic 10-year partnership agreement to support the hospital’s ambitious OYS2030 renewal program. The program aims to transform the operations and facilities of Oulu University Hospital to meet the challenges of future specialized care for the approximately 750,000 inhabitants of Northern Finland.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced the launch of Ultrasound Workspace [OLK1] at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session & Expo (ACC 2022). Philips Ultrasound Workspace [1] is an industry leading vendor-neutral echocardiography image analysis and reporting solution that can be accessed remotely via a browser.

Opinion Article by Matt O'Donovan, CEO, WiFi SPARK.
Over the past two decades, the NHS has made a big investment in entertainment and communications systems, internet access and WiFi infrastructure.

The first wave came with the installation of bedside terminals that enabled patients to call their loved ones and to watch television without having to wait for a corridor payphone or the ward TV.

On the last day of the working visit of the Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot to Germany, the Luxembourg delegation visited the digital health cluster Medical Valley in Erlangen in Bavaria. The Medical Valley European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg (EMN) is a leading international innovation ecosystem in the field of healthcare management.