Sophie Porter

The combined group will create the first integrated platform connecting patients, healthcare providers and healthcare information systems.

Also, commercial results of the national testing programme in this week's Healthcare IT News roundup.

A recent HIMSS Nordic Community webinar – moderated by Bogi Eliasen, HIMSS Future50 and director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies – addressed how Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway have enabled a sustainable human-centred health environment that influenced their crisis management during the pandemic.

The response of the non-acute parts of the Italian healthcare system was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by HIMSS.

As a result of COVID-19, the UK has turned decisively to the tech sector to provide them with health solutions. But some places were more prepared than others. In the recent techUK webinar, ‘COVID-19: How Yorkshire’s health tech cluster is responding’, local experts discussed how the already strong integration of digital health tools benefited the ease and speed of the region’s pandemic response.

Also - Dutch company offers free analysis of COVID-19 CT scans.

Preparedness, communication and a willingness to innovate are some ways in which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have adapted their healthcare systems in response to COVID-19. 

The platform has enabled urgent access to patient’s medical history to frontline healthcare workers

Sunderland Royal Hospital was recently awarded Stage 6 on the EMRAM by HIMSS.

The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed the uptake of digital health solutions in a way not hitherto experienced by the sector.