Digital Health Ambitions in East Ireland Strengthened by Deployment of IMS MAXIMS Cutting-Edge Technology at St Michael's Hospital
St Michael’s Hospital achieved a significant milestone in East Ireland's journey towards digitally enabled healthcare last week by going live with an electronic patient management system in its Emergency Department (ED). The system went live on 15th June, effectively making the ED paper-lite as the core clinical and administrative processes moved from being paper-based to electronic with no disruption to patient care. 
Tejre Tobiassen suffered from a cardio arrest. During his rehabilitation, Tejre came up with the idea of an intelligent wearable that could help prevent cardio arrest and other life threatening incidents. A year after his cardio arrest, he founded ContinYou. The product is ready for sale in Norway. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced an agreement to acquire Electrical Geodesics, Inc. (EGI), a US-based medical device company that designs, develops and commercializes a range of non-invasive technologies used to monitor and interpret brain activity. 
The Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) was established by an alliance between university medicine, industry, and science for the purpose of accelerating the digitalization of medicine and healthcare. The Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Siemens Healthineers, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, and Medical Valley EMN have signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect. 
"Everyone talks? We do" is this year's slogan of the WeDoDigital campaign initiated by the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce - a campaign that aims to honor digital success stories in 2017. Cologne-based, digital healthcare company m.Doc is one of the nationwide winners. The award was given to m.Doc's founder and CEO Admir Kulin at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit in Berlin yesterday.