AZ Monica hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, has canceled all operations for a second day due to a cyberattack that shut down servers and made electronic patient files inaccessible.

ORTEC acquires German clinical staff management software provider Klages & Partner, adding over 200 healthcare customers and enhancing workforce optimization for European hospitals.

China’s National Healthcare Security Administration is piloting a unified smart payment system for medical insurance that will expand QR, facial recognition, mobile and credit-based payments across hospitals to streamline outpatient, emergency and inpatient billing workflows.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies achieves CE and UKCA certification for its GridION Dx system, marking its entry into regulated clinical diagnostics markets across the UK and Europe.

The founder of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences is pursuing a buyback of private equity investors’ 49% stake to regain greater strategic control over the hospital group’s expansion and capital structure.

Singapore General Hospital has opened a dedicated neuroscience intensive care unit with advanced real-time remote monitoring to enhance management of complex neurological and neurosurgical cases.

Ajou University Hospital has entered a strategic partnership with SK Ecoplant to establish a rapid, specialised severe trauma care and transport system linked to South Korea’s major industrial complexes, including the SK Hynix Yongin semiconductor cluster.

Tietoevry is acquiring Spanish firms OpenSpring and GrupoOnetec to strengthen its European healthcare IT capabilities and support hospital digital transformation across the region.

China has announced the world’s first AI hospital, signalling a major shift in healthcare management, digital infrastructure, and clinical operations across Asia.

Organon has entered a commercialisation agreement with Daiichi Sankyo to expand hospital access to the cholesterol-lowering therapy Nilemdo across several Northern European countries, reinforcing cardiovascular treatment options and procurement strategies.