Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust today announced a ground-breaking multi-year collaborative programme with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre, supported by IBM (NYSE: IBM), to create the United Kingdom's first 'cognitive' hospital by harnessing 'big data' and the power of IBM's Watson technology platform. 
Student nurses in Manchester have become the first anywhere in the world to be trained in how to use a vital signs observations technology called Patientrack, before they set foot onto the ward. The pioneering move at The University of Manchester, signals the start of a changing educational focus to equip the UK's first generation of 'paperless' nurses 
Orion Health (OHE:NZX/ASX) has announced its software manages 102 million patient health records globally. This new record firmly establishes Orion Health as a leading vendor in the capture and delivery of electronic healthcare information to enable better health and wellness outcomes. 
The Grants4Apps (G4A) Accelerator developed by Bayer invites health IT and technology startups to apply for the program's 2016 edition. This year, Bayer looks primarily into projects aimed at fostering patient-doctor feedback in the Women's Health field as well as those improving patient engagement in Cardiology, Oncology, Radiology and Ophthalmology, but Bayer is also interested in highly innovative software, hardware, technologies applied to digital health fields. 
At the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore, Case Western Reserve University and Siemens Healthcare will announce an exclusive research partnership to further develop a quantitative imaging method known as Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF). 
InterSystems, a global leader in health information technology, will bring pioneers from across the world to Sutton Coldfield in May, to share ground-breaking stories on how joining-up health and social care is becoming a reality. 
Carestream now offers an oncology reading workflow for PET/CT studies that equips clinicians with new native tools for its enterprise image management system that deliver both quantitative and qualitative information to help improve and expedite the reading process.