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The agreement with Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust was signed earlier this month.

The NHS App is now being rolled out across England, NHS England announced this morning, following private testing between September and December with over 3,000 patients from 30 GP practices.

Also: AXA Venture Partners raises $150m (€130m) to invest in fintech and digital health start-ups; UK Biomedical Catalyst applications now open; Liège University spin-off secures nearly €970,000 to develop its product range.

The game has now been licensed through the University of Cambridge's technology transfer arm to app developer Peak.

International tech investment firm Atomico releases the 2018 State of European Tech report. 

Also: Sandoz selects finalists for Healthcare Access Challenge, while applications for UK medtech business accelerator close on 20 January.

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The FindAir One monitors symptoms and conditions, and warns users if their inhaler was left at home.

Part of the NHS's new 10-year plan is to make the organisation a testbed for new health tech, such as the portal-like HealthTech Connect.

AI in healthcare seems to be a hot topic of discussion around the world at the moment, but what progress has been made in terms of adoption in clinical routine? “Improving our diagnostic and treatment processes has always been the fundamental basis of our thinking and we have welcomed AI,” Miikka Korja, chief information officer and cerebrovascular neurosurgeon at the Helsinki University Hospital in Finland, explains in an interview for the second issue of the HIMSS Insights eBook.