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Digitally-enabled care is expected to become a "mainstream part" of the NHS in England under a 10-year plan unveiled today.

A blueprint that will be published by NHS leaders later today could help save up to half a million more lives in England through a "renewed" focus on prevention, cutting edge treatments, and the use of new forms of technology, NHS England has said.

Galway, Ireland-headquartered WhiteSwell has closed a $30m series B funding round to support a pivotal trial and advance the development of its therapy system for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).

Oxford, UK-based e-therapeutics has announced this week that it is entering a research partnership with Novo Nordisk that will see them use its proprietary Network-Driven Drug Discovery (NDD) platform to identify potentially new biological mechanisms and therapies for a “specific area” of type 2 diabetes.

Data science and AI are opening up new opportunities to optimise resources and improve quality of care, experts argued at the recent World Innovation Summit for Health in Qatar.

Oxford-based Sensyne Health announces partnership with EY.

The team behind the development of the Streams mobile app will be joining Google, DeepMind Health has confirmed, nearly a week after it was announced that Geisinger CEO Dr David Feinberg was taking on a new role to chart the tech giant’s healthcare strategy.

Approximately 120 apps are currently being evaluated by NHS Digital and two external assessors against key standards to be added to an NHS resource of trusted digital health and care tools for patients, citizens, healthcare professionals, and commissioners.

New guidance for NHS staff on using instant messaging services during emergencies.

Researchers have called into question claims made by health tech company Babylon Health that its diagnostic and triage system performed better than doctors on a subset of the final exam for trainee GPs in the UK.