Marking its tenth anniversary, Philips Foundation released its 2024 Annual Report, highlighting a year in which the Philips Foundation helped provide access to quality healthcare for 46.5 million people around the world - a significant increase from 28 million the year before. 
Open Medical is working with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre’s Rural Centre of Excellence on a referral management plan, as part of a research and development scheme to help transform the community occupational therapy service in Moray - and beyond. This will include integration with self-assessment and digital assessment tools to support self-management and reduce waiting times. 
NHS England has been downsized and abolished. Integrated care boards have been told to change function, consolidate, and deliver savings. Trusts are planning big cuts. The Highland Marketing advisory board met to consider the impact on health tech, and how suppliers can navigate the chaos. Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today unveiled its 2025 Future Health Index U.S. report, "Building trust in healthcare AI," spotlighting the state of healthcare and uncovering a significant trust gap between healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients around the role of AI in healthcare. This 10th edition report, commissioned by Philips, reveals a healthcare system under mounting strain and signals that AI can help. 
Klinikum Region Hannover (KRH) has commissioned Siemens Healthineers to install infection control system (ICS) at the Klinikum Siloah hospital. The ICS aims to effectively tackle nosocomial infections and increase patient and employee safety. The systems detect and record potential pathogen sources and trigger automated processes to take the right measures at the right time. 
A new technology partnership formally announced, could help NHS, local government, and housing organisations collaborate to create an unprecedented understanding of the risks and needs of people in their care. Resulting intelligence could enable co-ordinated decisions that help to ease demand on recovering NHS services, prevent avoidable harm and A&E visits, and target community interventions where they can make the biggest impact for individuals. Hosted by trade associations AXREM and the British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA), 'The Future of MedTech - Innovating for Tomorrow', will allow delegates to engage with speakers from the government, NICE, MHRA, and the NHS.
Held at the Mercure Northampton on 13 May 2025, conference organisers have now confirmed health tech specialist agency Highland Marketing as the headline sponsor.