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A recent article from the HIMSS Insights global eBook looked at the use of digital technologies in healthcare in the developing world.

Mendelian, a UK healthtech startup, has received a £500,000 grant from Innovate UK to build platforms that will help GPs to identify NHS patients with potentially rare or hard-to-diagnose conditions and diseases more quickly.

These are: Tiny Medical Apps, eConsult, Helm, Audit and Transparency Summary Care Record and Digital Child Health.

Also: UK launches health data research alliance; Novartis partners with Oxford Big Data Institute; Healthware and FII Tech Group will invest more than €10m to strengthen digital health operations.

UKCA marking will not be used for medical devices.

Like its predecessor, the app combines artistic presentation with proven cognitive behavioral therapy strategies.

The Scottish start-up also announced that it was now working with Mount Sinai Brooklyn.

Kas will be speaking at HIMSS Liège and the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European conference later this year.

UK health and social care secretary Matt Hancock previously warned social media firms that "more action is urgently needed" to protect children online.

Also: Prenetics acquires Soma Analytics, Open Bionics raises £4.6m in Series A funding round; ten projects are selected to receive a share of £3m to drive innovation in the NHS.