Health tech deals
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has signed a 10-year contract with System C for an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) system, which will replace the trust’s in-house built EPR and accelerate its digital maturity and roadmap. RWT, which is one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands, will take a [...]
Four trusts in the Greater Manchester Pathology Network are working to deploy Clinisys’ laboratory information management system (LIMS) in a way that will enable them to work more collaboratively and improve services for clinicians and patients. In a series of tenders, Tameside, Stockport, Bolton, and Northern Care Alliance (NCA) NHS Trusts have all awarded Clinisys [...]
Applications are now open for integrated care systems to apply for a share of £30 million to roll out innovative technology. The government has announced it will direct £30 million of investment into innovative medtech. The government has said it hopes the funding will help ease pressures on the NHS this winter. Available to each [...]
Illumina is awaiting directives from the European Commission (EC) regarding divestment of Grail, while asserting that the commission lacks authority over the merger. A key player in the gene-sequencing industry, Illumina is currently contesting the jurisdictional matter with the European Court of Justice. The company has affirmed that it will move towards divesting Grail in [...]
The innovation arm of a pharmaceutical company has signed up to work with the Singapore Economic Development Board to unlock life sciences potential. Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS helps early-stage companies to accelerate their discoveries into medicines, medical technologies and healthcare solutions. It is a no-strings-attached model, which means innovators are free to develop their [...]
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has signed a new agreement to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution in bid to further improve patient care. Following a contract signing in September, the Trust will now share a common picture archiving and communication system (PACS), with five other trusts in the region that have already deployed the [...]
UK medical device development company Medovate has concluded a distribution agreement with Fannin Limited giving the Dublin-based company distribution rights for SAFIRA across the Island of Ireland. Medovate developed the SAFIRA system in collaboration with anaesthetists in the NHS. The system has been designed to help revolutionise standard regional anaesthesia clinical practice and promote patient [...]
By Sharon Lamb, Gary Howes, David Gibson, Pilar Arzuaga, Bella North, Michaela Novakova
Surgical robotics firm, CMR Surgical, has raised US$165 million in its latest funding round to continue rolling out its next-generation system in hospitals across the world. Announcing the news, the company revealed that its Versius® surgical robotics system has now been used to perform more than 15,000 surgeries internationally. The surgical cases span more than [...]
uMed, the health and research technology company, has announced The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has selected its service to support the global expansion of its wide-scale study exploring the link between loss of smell and brain disease. The smell test study, which is part of MJFF’s landmark brain health initiative, the Parkinson’s Progression Markers [...]
