Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced a new target to complete the digitisation of the acute sector. The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the approach being developed by NHS England's transformation directorate, and the challenges to making it work.

In the first week of February, the Health Service Journal reported that it had seen a PowerPoint presentation of the digital plans being drawn-up by NHS England's transformation directorate, which is absorbing NHSX and NHS Digital.

On the last day of the working visit of the Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot to Germany, the Luxembourg delegation visited the digital health cluster Medical Valley in Erlangen in Bavaria. The Medical Valley European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg (EMN) is a leading international innovation ecosystem in the field of healthcare management.

NHS Tayside has signed a five-year agreement with smart health tech provider Alcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system that will help thousands of busy healthcare professionals as they care for patients.

People in Leicester experiencing an irregular heart rhythm are set to benefit from virtual monitoring thanks to a new innovation at Leicester's Hospitals.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has become one of the first in the UK to create a remote monitoring ward for patients with atrial fibrillation.

The National Pathology Imaging Co-operative, NPIC, opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the country to digitise pathology and improve patient diagnoses, following new funding and expanding the usage of Sectra's digital pathology solution and VNA.

A multi-million pound NHS initiative that already spans six trusts is expanding to help laboratories across different parts of the UK digitise their pathology services. Big wins are expected for patients and busy healthcare professionals.

Manx Care, Isle of Man were looking for solutions to replace an outdated legacy paging system that resulted in failed and delayed messaging impacting emergency response, with a modern progressive method of communication. To address this challenge, Manx Care embarked on a project with Alcidion to deploy Smartpage Clinical, with a view to introduce Smartpage Non-Clinical and Smartpage Response in later project phases.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has unveiled 'The Provision of AI Software in Neuroscience for Stroke Decision Making Support' procurement framework agreement, the only one of its kind in the UK specifically for the analysis of images for the detection of ischaemic or haemorrhagic strokes.