Opinion Article by Mark Venables, Co-Founder, Highland Marketing.
The thing with crises is that they're sudden, unexpected, and not under your control. You think it'll never happen to you, then you're part of the news cycle - and not in a good way.

In our sector, problems are pretty much inevitable. Think about it. Healthcare technology is tricky stuff.

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have begun deployment of the first private sector onsite, IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System is to be located on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland.

The first quantum computer in healthcare, anticipated to be completed in early 2023, is a key part of the two organizations'10-year partnership aimed at fundamentally advancing the pace of biomedical research through high-performance computing.

UK headquartered healthcare analytics company C2-Ai has appointed a senior clinician as its new medical director international.

Dr Mike Roberts, who has a background in emergency medicine and cardiothoracic surgery, has worked in both the NHS and in New Zealand, where he has held chief medical officer and medical director roles for more than 15 years.

One of England's best-known shared care records is helping to join-up health and care services by rolling-out access to care homes with the support of its technology provider, Orion Health.

The Care and Health Information Exchange, which operates across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, has been able to offer secure access to care homes after Orion Health incorporated the kind of multi-factor authentication that is increasingly common in banking and commercial services.

Cloud telephony provider X-on has launched Phonebar; an app to consolidate telecoms and patient communications onto the GP desktop.

The company is already offering Phonebar to practices that use the EMIS record system and will soon offer it to SystmOne and Vision customers.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has taken the next step in its modern, modular electronic patient record (EPR) programme with Alcidion, having gone live with electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) system Better Meds.

The trusthas deployed Better Meds to inpatient and outpatient areas, where it is already removing paper forms and manual processes, as well as helping busy healthcare professionals to make safe prescribing decisions.

Orion Health has been awarded the Professional Record Standards Body Quality Mark for conformance with the Core Information Standard - the first supplier to achieve this watershed on the journey to interoperable shared care records.

This achievement proves that information in people’s health and care records can be shared wherever and whenever it is needed for care.