Trusts to HIMSS5 by December 2023: Will they Make it this Time?
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. 
Opinion Article by Matt O'Donovan, CEO, WiFi SPARK.
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. 
NHS Tayside has signed a five-year agreement with smart health tech provider Alcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system that will help thousands of busy healthcare professionals as they care for patients.