Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has been much praised for its deployment of AI in the fight against Covid-19. Rizwan Malik, divisional medical director of the trust and managing director of South Manchester radiology, spoke to the Highland Marketing advisory board about the project and the lessons that other trusts can learn from it. 
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and Cerner have signed a 10-year agreement to implement an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) solution.
The Trust has chosen Cerner to implement the Cerner Millennium® EHR solution, meaning a patient’s full record will be available electronically for healthcare professionals in one place, at any time.
UK cloud telephony specialist X-on is supporting wide regional networks of GP practices to manage COVID-19 vaccination programmes with a simple contact system for patients to book a vaccination.
X-on has rapidly developed a softphone version of its cloud-based Surgery Connect healthcare phone system to enable Primary Care Networks to provide patients with a single dedicated number and support process for booking an appointment at community vaccination hubs.
Medica, which provides more than a million radiology reports each year to help NHS hospitals deliver timely diagnoses and effective care for patients, has announced it will deploy technology from medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra. 
Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics company with seven million registered users, announced a new initiative with Everyday Health to launch new condition-specific resource centers through the Medisafe platform. With 40% of patients turning to digital resources to help manage their chronic conditions, the new digital resource centers will feature healthcare guidance, condition-specific news coverage and living-with information to support patients managing their condition. 
Visionable has renewed its offer of free video calls to connect hospital patients with their loved ones as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
The company, which has developed a unique video collaboration platform that is used for multi-disciplinary team meetings and virtual clinics across the NHS, created Visionable Connect in the first wave, to support patients who could not receive visits from family and friends.
Leading radiologist Rizwan Malik has joined Highland Marketing's advisory board of NHS IT and health tech industry leaders.
The divisional medical director of Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and managing director of South Manchester radiology will contribute to the group's increasingly influential discussions on health tech strategy and hot topics.