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Resembling recent disruption in the perception of an IT professional’s role, HIMSS Europe is establishing a new, first-of-its-kind community bringing together digital leaders that will drive the transformation of healthcare across the pan-European region going forward.

Scotland's new digital health and care strategy, published 25 April, sets out a series of commitments to drive the development of the infrastructure needed to empower citizens to take control of their health and wellbeing and improve service delivery.

HIMSS UK Executive Leadership Summit panel assesses the potential of the NHS to deploy AI technologies considering the current state of its infrastructure.

The House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence urges the NHS to digitise its 'current practices and records' by 2022 and sets out a series of recommendations to support sensible adoption of new technologies.

The initiative, known as the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales network, will initially run for a period of two years.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data scandal, researchers set out a roadmap for the health and science community to restore the public's trust in big data.

The announcement comes after a new review found that more than 230 million errors occur every year in England in the medication process.

“Our quest is to harness large-scale data analysis and technology to power the UK as a leader in the field of precision health,” Professor Andrew Morris, Health Data Research UK Director, said at the Festival of Genomics in London last month.

BJ-HC spoke to representatives from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity, CW+, about digital health innovation success and the importance of frontline clinician support.

New report looks at complexities around the use of AI in healthcare, mapping out a series of steps to be taken for new technologies to support service transformation.