Sandoz Announces Winners of Inaugural Healthcare Access Challenge #SandozHACk
Sandoz, a Novartis Division, announced today the three winners of the inaugural Healthcare Access Challenge (Sandoz HACk). The winners, chosen by a panel of judges at the Wired Health 2017 event in London, identified innovative approaches to address challenges in Ghana, the Maldives and the Philippines. The winning ideas all proposed novel ways to use mobile technologies to connect patients with caregivers and essential medicines, addressing access issues specific to their country but with the potential for solutions to be applied elsewhere. 
Data sharing ambitions set out in newly published sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have been given a boost by a new strategic partnership between data management specialist Stalis and Italy's largest health IT company, Dedalus. The new partnership looks to make vital patient information, currently stored on dozens or even hundreds of legacy IT systems, accessible for care professionals working in different NHS and public sector organisations. 
Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), a state-of-the-art leukemia and lymphoma diagnostic and research laboratory based in Munich, has teamed up with IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) to help build a new cognitive technology prototype that aims to help researchers improve leukemia treatment. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and LabPON, the first clinical laboratory to transition to 100% histopathology digital diagnosis, have announced its plans to create a digital database of massive aggregated sets of annotated pathology images and big data utilizing Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution (1). 
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) announced it was accepted onto the NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP) Clinical and Digital Information Systems (CDIS) Framework in both the acute care and innovation categories. CDIS, which went live in December 2016, was created to enable health and social care organisations to comply with the National Information Board's Personalised Health and Care 2020 framework. 
For the first time at ECR in Vienna (March 1 - 5) the healthcare division of Siemens AG will be appearing under its new brand - Siemens Healthineers - and with the motto, "Let's shape the future of healthcare together". The company's strategic goal is to help healthcare providers worldwide to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments using products and solutions that increase efficiency and reduce costs.