NHS patients and clinicians are to benefit from ground-breaking digital health technology thanks to a fresh new drive - an Accelerator - helping small to medium digital health businesses develop and pioneer health care technology specifically for the NHS.

Panasonic released a video featuring its assist robots, which support the everyday lives of workers and the elderly. The company has applied the advanced control and sensor technologies that it has developed to create a robot equipped with motors that assist human body mechanics.

System C and IMMJ Systems have today teamed up to provide full integration of the MediViewer EDM with Medway EPR. The MediViewer EDM solution is built by IMMJ Systems specifically for UK healthcare and aims to deliver a paperless NHS.

The Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) in Northern Germany, is the first hospital to have embarked upon the Continuity of Care assessment carried out by HIMSS Analytics in Europe.

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, is aiding clinicians in the battle against the rapidly spreading Zika virus through free online access to a number of its industry leading medical content and clinical decision support resources.

Map of Medicine, part of Hearst Health International, today announces the launch of an innovative care pathways and e-referral programme in Cumbria. The announcement was made by Dr Andrew Jones, Medical Director at Hearst Health International at the CCIO Network site visit to Sedbergh Medical Centre in Cumbria.

Experienced communications expert Natalie Bateman has joined pioneering clinical technology specialist IMS MAXIMS as its policy and communications director in a newly created board position. Strengthening the company's senior management team, Bateman will be responsible for raising the profile of IMS MAXIMS and its products amongst its stakeholder community, including strengthening its proposition for influencing policy development.