Bayer announced the acquisition of the global strategic imaging AI platform and solutions provider Blackford Analysis Ltd. The acquisition is part of Bayer's strategy to drive innovation in radiology, including the development and adoption of AI within the clinical workflow, with the goal to ultimately improve patient care and advance Bayer’s position in digital medical imaging.

Bayer AG and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to drive early drug discovery that will apply Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are custom-developed accelerators designed to run cutting-edge machine learning models and computationally-intensive workloads, to help accelerate and scale Bayer's quantum chemistry calculations.

The start-up accelerator supports entrepreneurial and innovative teams that want to grow sustainably and successfully scale their business model. With a strong hands-on mentality and a lot of passion, the SpinLab team works to ensure that promising startups receive all the necessary resources as well as sufficient professional support for long-term success in the market.

At the 2023 Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Owkin Co-founder and CEO Thomas Clozel, MD will outline how data is the future of medicine - from the development of new drugs to patient treatment decisions.

At 3pm (PST) on Tuesday the 10th of January at the Golden Gate Hotel, San Francisco, Thomas will discuss how finding the right treatment for every patient can only be achieved by the secure analysis of high-quality data, with data flowing freely yet securely between care and research.

WiFi SPARK is renewing its commitment to making sure that NHS patients can enjoy the very best festive TV and entertainment without worrying about the cost.

The specialist wi-fi and engagement provider is working with NHS Trusts to offer patients in beds with communications units that were formerly managed by Hospedia three days of free TV on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day.

Last year's Budget set aside £2.1 billion for NHS IT, and the autumn statement confirmed the capital is still there, but it looks like most of the money is headed for Frontline Digitisation. The Highland Marketing advisory board considers how this pattern of putting money into health tech, taking it out again, shaking up the badging, and starting over impacts the market.

Healthcare professionals at one of the world's leading children's hospitals will benefit from digital imaging tools that will enhance how they assess x-rays, CTs, MRIs and other scans that are crucial for effective diagnoses.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) will deploy an enterprise imaging solution, including a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), from medical imaging technology provider Sectra.