Sector Verticals

Launching recognition at lightspeed 

Pfizer’s employees worked tirelessly through COVID-19 to produce a vaccine. The company wanted to recognise its employees’ efforts and so partnered with Workhuman to implement a global employee rewards and recognition programme to ensure their...

BMO offers free access to Headspace to North American employees and their families 

BMO and Headspace, a global leader in mindfulness and meditation, has announced a new partnership to help BMO employees and their families build healthy habits into their everyday routines.  Headspace offers a range of tools for managing stress,...

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch project to realise data portability

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University have announced the launch of a project starting in April 2023 to realise data portability for patients’ healthcare data including electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs). As part of...

2023 healthcare outlook: A focused approach for personalised healthcare systems

Mohamed Ezz Eldin, Head of Innovative Medicines at Novartis Gulf, Gulf Countries, reflects on 2022’s impact on healthcare and predictions for the new year. What will we remember about 2022? Two years after the greatest healthcare crisis of our...

How to motivate your team at the start of a new year

Whether your teams are fully remote, hybrid or back in the office, January can be a difficult month for feeling motivated and connected to work, especially with the cold, the Christmas comedown and the financial squeeze that often follows December. For...

USFDA grants Breakthrough Designation for blood test to help diagnose inaccessible brain tumours

Datar Cancer Genetics (DCG) has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its ‘TriNetra-Glio’, a blood test to help in the diagnosis of brain tumours.  This is the third test...

Rockdoc launches comprehensive testing and care solutions for Influenza, Covid-19 and Strep Throat

Rockdoc’s Cold and Flu Rescue Kit is the first integrated solution on the Canadian market that allows users to screen for common respiratory illnesses – Strep A, Influenza A and B and COVID-19 – from anywhere and get immediate results and...

Joyce Oh joins Moffitt Cancer Centre as new Vice President and CIO

Joyce Oh has joined Moffitt Cancer Centre as the new Vice President and CIO.  In her role, she will be responsible for leading Moffitt’s IT teams and contributing to the organisation’s Digital Transformation efforts. Bringing more...

Momentis announces adoption of Anovo Surgical System by Medical City Plano

Momentis Surgical, a medical device company dedicated to transforming surgery with its proprietary surgical robotic technology, has announced that Medical City Plano has acquired the Anovo Surgical System for use in transvaginal benign gynaecological...

Icon brings quality cancer care to global patients with Macquarie Cloud Services

Macquarie Cloud Services has signed a deal with one of Australia’s largest comprehensive cancer care providers, Icon Group, to manage its platforms through a Microsoft Azure environment. Icon’s Head of IT Infrastructure, Mark Holmes, tells us...

Heart failure start-up Acorai wins US and UK healthcare support

Acorai, a Swedish-based medical device start-up, has announced endorsements from two major healthcare players as they prepare the Acorai Heart Monitor for regulatory submission and clinical use within the next 18 months. Acorai is developing a...

IDC finds almost 75% of APAC healthcare providers to increase spending on patient-centric apps

A report from IDC, Patient of One: Redefining Patient-Centric Care, found that almost 75% of healthcare providers in Asia Pacific will increase spending on customer engagement apps to better cater to the shift of care delivery from in-person to care...