Philips and Spanish Healthcare Group Vithas Sign Strategic Agreement
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Vithas Group, Spain's second largest private healthcare group, signed a 5-year innovation and collaboration agreement in the areas of precision diagnosis and image-guided intervention. The agreement will allow Vithas Group hospitals and medical centers to benefit from the latest innovations in diagnostic imaging technology, healthcare informatics, and equipment for minimally-invasive interventional procedures. 
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and Cerner have signed a 10-year agreement to implement an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) solution.
UK cloud telephony specialist X-on is supporting wide regional networks of GP practices to manage COVID-19 vaccination programmes with a simple contact system for patients to book a vaccination.
Medica, which provides more than a million radiology reports each year to help NHS hospitals deliver timely diagnoses and effective care for patients, has announced it will deploy technology from medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra. 
Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics company with seven million registered users, announced a new initiative with Everyday Health to launch new condition-specific resource centers through the Medisafe platform. With 40% of patients turning to digital resources to help manage their chronic conditions, the new digital resource centers will feature healthcare guidance, condition-specific news coverage and living-with information to support patients managing their condition. 
Visionable has renewed its offer of free video calls to connect hospital patients with their loved ones as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.