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Business Secretary Greg Clark has unveiled today the successful consortium groups that will create five new digital pathology and imaging centers leveraging AI to speed up disease diagnosis in the UK, bringing together representatives from academia, the charitable sector and industry.

A Swedish digital health firm is launching its doctor-patient video app in the UK this week after signing two partnerships with NHS GP federations that will see it become available to patients registered with GP practices in North West Surrey and the North West of England - the NICS GP Federation and SSP Health.

Parkinson’s UK and Our Mobile Health have launched an apps and devices library to help people living with Parkinson’s manage their symptoms in response to increasing demand for trusted digital health tools.

Digital services and IT systems in the NHS will have to meet a new set of open standards and existing solutions will have to be upgraded, according to a new policy paper released by the Department of Health and Social Care.

The Netherlands signs declaration to link up access to genomic databases across the EU, joining 17 other member states already involved in the initiative.

Also: UK ministers to organise roundtable with companies to explore the impact of technology on loneliness and Japanese hospital joins AI research project through five-year partnership with London-based DeepMind Health.

European Investment Bank supports the implementation of Ireland's eHealth programme with a €225m loan.

The Department of Health and Social Care estimates that the WannaCry cyber attack from May 2017 cost the NHS £92m.

Through a partnership with University College London, NHS Digital and other leading industry experts, a new centre has been opened at a hospital in London to transform the use of technology across health and care.

Fondation Botnar and the Gates Foundation are backing Berlin-headquartered Ada's expansion after launching a new Global Health Initiative to improve access to healthcare.