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Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter which is a great response to the question of ‘Where can one find the recent updates, events and resources from the healthcare IT ecosystem without getting lost?’. Through our newsletter, we help healthcare professionals, providers and authorities feel the pulse of healthcare IT by providing the latest developments. Check out the features of this month's edition: 

• Must-Know News: Don't miss critical regulations, innovations and trends currently shaping the healthcare IT landscape. 

• Upcoming Sectoral Events: You can find opportunities to connect with industry leaders to deepen your understanding at upcoming conferences and exhibitions.  

• Podcast Picks: Tune into recommended podcast episodes offering diverse viewpoints on digital health. 

• Suggested Articles & Books: You can gain in-depth knowledge on digital health technologies via suggested reading materials. 

Let's create a healthier and more secure world by adopting digital health technologies together!

OUR LATEST POSTS ✍️

• We hosted a workshop on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare as an EU project partner of AISym4MED.  

• We focused on strategic collaboration opportunities and promoted our innovative health information technologies at the GITEX AFRICA. 

• We published a blog about personalized healthcare technology with a focus on our Mobithera and R&D projects. 

• We asked the key factors making health information systems successful to our Contracts and Bidding Manager who highlighted collaboration, scalability, compliance, security, interoperability and patient centricity. 

• We emphasized patient portals’ capability to increase patient awareness and support more informed decisions. 

• We did an interview with our EU Grants Manager on the significance of project funding in healthcare IT R&D. 

• We asked digital health transformation’s potential to improve healthcare accessibility to our Lead Project Manager who expressed digital tools’ ability to eliminate various barriers from geographic distance to logistical hurdles.

NEWS 📌

• The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe announced the European Campus Rottal-Inn (DIT-ECRI) in Germany as a collaborating center on digital health. The DIT-ECRI will analyze data about existing digital health policies and ethics frameworks, identify potential gaps and provide recommendations for policy improvement. Read More 

• The United Kingdom (UK) government will invest in the creation of a new health data research service. This service aims to improve the discovery of life-saving drugs, medical research and patient care by streamlining access to National Health Service (NHS) data. Read More 

• The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Korea’s digital health transformation. Under the partnership, the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator (DHI) will be implemented as Korea’s Medical Digital Maturity Assessment Model. Read More 

EVENTS ✈️

• 3 May – 6 May 2025, ATA NEXUS 2025, New Orleans, USA 

• 13 May – 14 May 2025, Digital Health Festival, Melbourne, Australia 

• 13 May – 15 May 2025, The MedTech Forum, Lisbon, Portugal 

• 19 May – 20 May 2025, Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, Boston, USA 

• 1 June – 3 June 2025, e-Health 2025, Toronto, Canada 

• 10 June – 12 June 2025, HIMSS25 - European Health Conference & Exhibition, Paris, France 

PODCAST SUGGESTIONS 🎧

• Faces of Digital Health - Agentic AI and Longevity - Key Topics at NextMed Health 2025 

• HIMSSCast - Should All Healthcare Organizations Have an AI Plan? 

• Healthcare Strategies - Saving Lives with a State Health Information Exchange 

• Healthtech Pigeon - Is Remote Monitoring the Future of Healthcare? 

ARTICLE & BOOK SUGGESTIONS 📚

• Revisions to the Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience (SAFER) Guides to Update National Recommendations for Safe Use of Electronic Health Records. by Dean F Sittig et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 32, Issue 4, April 2025. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaf018 

• Research and Study on Achieving Transparency in Health Sector through e-Governance. by Ministry of Health and Population.  

• The Application of Natural Language Processing Technology in Hospital Network Information Management Systems: Potential for Improving Diagnostic Accuracy and Efficiency. by Shiyong Wang and Hong Luo. SLAS Technology, April 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.slast.2025.100287 

• Technologies for Personalised Healthcare. by Francesca Romana Cavallo and Christofer Toumazou. by CRC Press 

• Generative Intelligence in Healthcare. by Sakshi Gupta et al. by CRC Press 

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