The Highland advisory board has welcomed a new member - Dylan Roberts, a digital leader with almost 40 years’ experience of working in and across local government, health, and public services.

Dylan brings a wealth of experience to the board, which debates issues in digital health, advises the specialist health tech agency and its clients, and informs the Elevate series of showcase events, which take curated digital and med tech direct to trusts.

Researchers and students now have a new AI-native workspace, with the launch of Digital Science's Papers AI - where they'll never have to re-explain their work every time they turn to AI for assistance.

Built by the team behind Overleaf, Papers AI is designed specifically for research workflows. Researchers can write, organize their materials and analyze data, with context-aware AI assisting across a whole project, rather than working in one document at a time.

Rail stations across the Netherlands have been fitted with modern defibrillators, creating a time-critical lifeline for passengers who suffer sudden cardiac arrests, and for surrounding communities.

Across the Netherlands, an enhanced emergency response system is taking shape. It is one that most people pass every day without noticing, yet one that can make the difference between life and death.

Three leading digital health innovators - Tieto Caretech, x‑tention, and Better - have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the next generation of open, patient‑centric healthcare systems. United by complementary strengths and a shared commitment to openness, interoperability, and data freedom, the three companies are setting a new benchmark for how healthcare IT can evolve.

AI is already saving clinicians the equivalent of over 16 working days a year and helping them see more patients, but healthcare systems risk falling behind because of inadequate training and fragmented infrastructure. That’s according to findings from Philips’ Future Health Index 2026, the 11th edition of the global report, based on perspectives from over 2,000 healthcare professionals and 20,000 patients across 10 countries.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has successfully completed the full deployment of the Clinisys™ WinPath Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), marking a significant milestone in its ongoing digital transformation of pathology services. The final phase of the go-live, covering blood transfusion and blood sciences, was completed on 20 April 2026, following an earlier implementation across microbiology and cellular pathology in September 2025.

Fifteen NHS trusts across the West Midlands are a significant step closer to leveraging diagnostic expertise on a scale never seen before in the health service, after the largest digital health initiative of its kind in Europe commenced a procurement process.

Formally known as the Converged Digital Imaging Platform, the initiative will create a single diagnostic imaging record for each NHS patient in the region - helping to ensure high-quality diagnoses for patients wherever they live.