Northern Ireland launches UKs first Covid-19 contact-tracing app
The contact-tracing app uses Bluetooth technology to notify users if they have come into contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.
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The contact-tracing app uses Bluetooth technology to notify users if they have come into contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.
Siemens Healthineers is to buy cancer device and software specialist Varian Medical Systems in a deal worth $16.4 billion (Ā£12.5bn).
The funding is for ideas that address the vulnerability of BAME groups to Covid-19, or emerging social economic and cultural impacts of the pandemic.
Public sector software business, Civica, has continued its run of acquiring niche cloud-based applications with the purchase of Infoflex.
Patients Know Best has launched an education programme which can be used by medical schools, withĀ Liverpool John Moores University among the first.
Digital GP services has proved popular during the pandemic but more research is needed to understand the impact remote consultations have on care.
The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) have said investment in local data sharing programmes is āvitalā to fighting future pandemics.

The HSE and System C have announced the next phase of a national agreement that

Kingās College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched a digital prehab trial for patients awaiting

A report in the FT suggests waiting list reductions attributed to the FDP are heavily

Jordan Sollof is joined at NHS ConfedExpo 2026 by Dr Peter Thomas and Kate Warriner
Today’s briefing features enhanced cancer-killing agents technology and an AI model for NHS Care Navigation.