Three Scottish councils have each been awarded grant funding from Tunstall Healthcare to enable them to create projects of their choosing, all of which are designed to benefit their local communities. 
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that Watson will gain the ability to "see" by bringing together Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare Incorporated's (NASDAQ: MRGE) medical imaging management platform. 
Information governance is often seen as a barrier to sharing data across healthcare organisations. But at least one commissioning support unit (CSU) is managing information in a way that allows it and its customers to comprehensively map data flows and assets, quickly identify and mitigate any risks and ensure that vital information can be harnessed securely. 
Wye Valley NHS Trust is the latest UK healthcare provider to sign up to an open source electronic patient record (EPR) after agreeing a five year service contract with pioneering software specialist IMS MAXIMS. 
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, located in the North East of England and one of the first Foundation Trusts in the UK, is identifying leaner processes and improved workflow since installing CARESTREAM Vue RIS and CARESTREAM Vue PACS systems. 
Google has announced the creation of a new parent company, Alphabet, and this strategy appears to target as well the healthcare business. Alphabet is described by Larry Page, as a collection of companies and the largest will remain Google. As examples were presented Google's health efforts: Life Sciences (glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity).