Sanofi and Google will establish a new virtual Innovation Lab with the ambition to radically transform how future medicines and health services are delivered by tapping into the power of emerging data technologies. The collaboration aims to change how Sanofi develops new treatments and will focus on three key objectives: 
IMS MAXIMS has formed a partnership with Better by Marand to become a reseller for its e-prescribing system, OPENeP. The move gives NHS trusts that want to progress their digital maturity the option to buy an e-prescribing system that integrates seamlessly with the MAXIMS software suite. 
Delegates at the UK Imaging & Oncology Congress (UKIO) will be able to engage with global healthcare technology specialist Change Healthcare in June, around some of the biggest challenges facing diagnostic imaging and radiology in the NHS. 
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that it has opened the next round of applications for startup companies to participate in the global Merck Accelerator program. Startups can choose to participate in one of the two programs, either at the company's Innovation Center at global headquarters in Darmstadt or at its China Innovation Hub in Shanghai. 
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a five-year contract with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust for the delivery of a regional digital pathology solution to the Northern Cancer Alliance. The solution will span the ten separate trusts of the consortium and aims to improve cancer care workflows through enabling pathologists to instantly access and share images and information between departments and locations. 