Orion Health has appointed Mark Hindle as its new vice president for the UK and Ireland. Mark has joined the leading supplier of digital tools to improve healthcare experience from Evergreen Life, a personal health record app provider.
In his new role, he said his priority will be to support Orion Health’s existing customers and help them upgrade to the latest, cloud-based version of its platform.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) has launched new NHS App features to transform the way patients access and manage their appointments within the NHS. The programme, known as Wayfinder, is part of a national strategy led by NHS England to improve patient experience and help tackle waiting list backlogs - positioning the NHS App as the digital "front door" to NHS services. Orion Health is strengthening its presence in France with the appointment of digital health industry heavyweight, Tristan Debove, to lead its operations.
Tristan Debove has more than 25 years of experience in senior management positions in the health technology industry.
Genomics England has completed installation of an enterprise imaging system that will help to support a world-pioneering initiative for cancer research. The programme is linking whole genome sequencing, pathology and radiology data, in what has been described as the world’s largest multimodal cancer research platform. 
FDB (First Databank) announced that it has achieved ISO 13485:2016, the Quality Management System (QMS) for medical devices. This is a significant step for FDB, the UK's leading supplier of prescribing decision support solutions and it paves the way for the company's journey towards up-classification of its solutions. 
Qure.ai, one of world's leading providers of AI for healthcare, will launch its artificial intelligence (AI) playbook for radiology at this year's European Congress of Radiology. Developed with its European research partners Professor Dirk Pickuth and Dr Susanne Ohlmann-Knafo of CaritasKlinikum Saarbrücken/Germany, the playbook will provide European clinicians and radiologists with a helpful guide to understanding the business case for AI in radiology.
Opinion Article by Brian Murray, Director, Orion Health.