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AssureCare has appointed Kristen Konstantinidis as senior vice president of marketing and communications. Konstantinidis joins the AI-powered population health management company after serving as chief communications officer at Homeward Health. In that role, she built the company's communications and brand marketing function, including government relations, positioning for the Rural Health Transformation Program and AI narrative [...]
Forus has raised US$150m in Series C funding to expand its AI-powered medication access platform into more medical specialties and care settings. The funding comes four months after the health tech company raised US$160m in a Series B round and brings its total funding to more than US$300m. Forus said the latest round values the [...]
Digital Health has renewed its PR partnership with Chishick Communications for Rewired 2027, set to take place at the NEC in Birmingham. The renewal follows the agency's work on Rewired this year, including record media attendance, extensive press coverage and the launch of initiatives such as the on-site Podcast Café. Rewired 2027 will [...]
By Tamara Everington, chief medical officer at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust When NHS organisations reflect on successful EPR implementations, the story often focuses on systems, suppliers and timelines. At Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH), the decisive factor was people. A strong network of clinical champions and super users helped translate a [...]
Prime Health has announced a £2m investment in its Queen Anne Street centre, adding a new 3T MRI system and expanding preventative health services. The London centre, at 45 Queen Anne Street in the Harley Street Health District, is due to be officially unveiled on 24 September 2026 following an extensive refurbishment programme. The investment [...]
Hope Care has raised US$7m in Series A funding to expand its remote patient monitoring business across Europe. The Portuguese start-up develops OpMA, a regulated remote patient monitoring and telehealth platform that combines data from medical devices, patient-reported information and clinical workflows. The platform supports monitoring programmes for a range of chronic diseases. [...]
Global medical imaging company United Imaging Healthcare has received CE mark certification for its uCT SiriuX and uCT SiriuX Ultrix scanners, clearing the systems for commercial availability across Europe. The company, whose European operations are based in Rotterdam, describes the two systems as the world's first dual wide-coverage computed tomography (CT) family. The scanners are [...]
Health innovation minister James Frith said he was worried about “mistrust” of US defence and health tech company Palantir and “the impact it could have on people’s willingness to share data with the NHS”. The government is deciding whether to end Palantir's £330m contract to operate the NHS federated data platform, which is intended to [...]
By McDermott Will & Schulte Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how healthcare and life sciences companies innovate, operate and invest. What was once viewed as a future consideration is now a present reality, with adoption accelerating at a pace that has exceeded expectations. Recent discussions, including those at our European Health and Life Sciences Symposium, [...]
Private prescription platform Healistic has expanded its two-hour medication delivery service beyond London to Manchester and Birmingham. The London-based company allows private clinicians to issue electronic prescriptions and arrange for medicines to be dispensed and delivered without the patient visiting a pharmacy. Healistic says it has grown 40-fold in recent years and now serves more [...]
