Highland Marketing, a full service agency for health techmarketing, PR and communications, has appointed Tia Dissanayake to a new account executive role,in which she will support the team withher life science knowledge.
Tia has a strong background in science, having studied biology at university andworked withinthe healthcare and medical sectors.
Novartis announced an important step in reimagining medicine by founding the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selecting Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort. The new lab aims to bolster Novartis AI capabilities from research through commercialization and help accelerate the discovery and development of transformative medicines for patients worldwide. 
Patient Safety Learning today announced acampaign to end the thousands of avoidable deaths each year from unsafe patient care. The charity is calling for a new approach throughout all areas of the health and social care system to ensure improvements in patient safety. This involves providers, commissioners, policy makers, regulators, patient groups, and individual patients and families. 
Health technology specialist IMS MAXIMS has been recognised for its innovative work in the UK and Irish healthcare market in the 2019 CV Business Innovator Awards. The company has been named as the leading innovator in healthcare administration software, in recognition of the quality of its patient administration system and electronic patient record solutions, which it provides to more than 180 healthcare organisations. 
Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced that new research, published in the journal Circulation, found its algorithm could help doctors in hospital emergency rooms more accurately determine if someone is having a heart attack or not, so that they can receive faster treatments or be safely discharged. 
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.