EMEA news

Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities
By  HIMSS TV 02:25 pm November 28, 2018
By  Leontina Postelnicu 12:49 pm November 26, 2018
Data science and AI are opening up new opportunities to optimise resources and improve quality of care, experts argued at the recent World Innovation Summit for Health in Qatar. With more data than ever before now available, machine learning that can interpret large datasets stored and processed more cheaply, compared to a decade ago, the "next wave of progress” in healthcare could be generated...
By  Jonah Comstock 10:22 am November 21, 2018
With just five and a half million people spread out over more than 100 million square miles of land — and a nationalized system pledged to provide high-quality free medical care to them all — the nation of Finland is about as perfect a testbed for connected health innovation as you can imagine. Add in a surplus of developers left over from Nokia’s mobile phone heyday, and you have a country with...
By  Leontina Postelnicu 08:11 am November 21, 2018
Oxford-based Sensyne Health announces partnership with EY. Former UK science minister Lord (Paul) Drayson’s Sensyne Health has signed a Strategic Advisory Services agreement with EY to scale up the business and build on its business model. The company has inked partnerships with three NHS trusts in England to analyse anonymised patient data using its clinical AI technology to accelerate medical...
Hazel Jones, NHS Digital's Apps & Wearables program director
By  HIMSS TV 05:42 pm November 20, 2018
By  Laura Lovett 04:20 pm November 16, 2018
Globally more and more health professionals are stressing the importance of mental health services, but getting patients those services can be tricky. The shortage of trained professionals and the stigma of mental illness in many countries around the world have often created a barrier to treatment. But recently technology has come into play to tackle some of these challenges.    “There is a...
By  Tom Sullivan 01:18 pm November 14, 2018
Hospital IT executives in Europe share many of the same priorities and face many similar challenges as CIOs in other regions of the globe, including the United States, according to the HIMSS Analytics Annual European eHealth Survey 2018 released on Wednesday. Among them: empowering patients, sharing health information, protecting sensitive data and managing the growing need for a deeper talent...
By  Leontina Postelnicu 12:04 pm November 14, 2018
The team behind the development of the Streams mobile app will be joining Google, DeepMind Health has confirmed, nearly a week after it was announced that Geisinger CEO Dr David Feinberg was taking on a new role to chart the tech giant’s healthcare strategy. DeepMind, primarily a research organisation founded in London by Mustafa Suleyman, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010, was bought by...