St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusthas successfully gone live with System C’s CareFlow Vitals as part of its ambitious strategy to accelerate digitisation and become a digital exemplar using System C’s hospital and care community-wide blueprint.

UKCloud Health, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to powering the Healthcare community, has today announced that it has been awarded a place on all 4 lots of the new NHS Shared Business Services Cloud Solutions framework which runs for initial 2-year term with the option to extend to 2023.

Isansys Lifecare, a digital healthcare company and developer of the Patient Status Engine, an innovative patient monitoring platform,and the Lifetouch wireless "smart patch" cardiac sensor, today announces the results of a study pointing to a new pathway for managing patients with advanced liver disease based on new methods employing data-driven biomarkers.

Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced that Apple Health Records is now available for Allscripts Sunrise™, TouchWorks® and Professional EHR™ clients and their patients. Health Records brings together hospitals, clinics and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for individuals to see their available health data from multiple providers whenever they choose.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TPVGH) will utilize the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution to transform its pathology tissue examination to digital diagnostics.

Opinion Article by Shane Tickell, Chief Executive, IMS MAXIMS
Recently, the Sunday papers and politics programmes were dominated by what the BBC called "a £1.8 billion cash-boost for the NHS."

From this we had learned that £850 million of this will pay for the "20 hospital upgrades" that Boris Johnson promised as he entered Number 10 Downing Street for the first time.

Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) has become the first NHS Trust to introduce an information sharing tool which aims to protect women at risk of suffering female genital mutilation (FGM). The Female Genital Mutilation-Information Sharing (FGM-IS) solution is a tool which allows relevant, authorised healthcare professionals and administrative staff in the region to view information about girls with a family history of FGM, providing an opportunity to safeguard at-risk patients.