Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”.

👇 News

🏃‍♀️ A partnership between Bupa and GoJoe is aiming to help business health insurance customers increase activity levels and improve workplace health and wellbeing through an app for customers. The GoJoe App uses a combination of gamified challenges, social motivation, real-time tracking and expert-led content.

👨‍💻 Software firm Iodx has released Lilie 9.5 – the latest version of its flagship electronic patient record platform (EPR) which is purpose-built for sexual health services. The update, which launched on 2 September 2025, includes enhancements to streamline workflows, improve patient engagement and support digital transformation.

🧘‍♂️ Digital therapeutics developer Healthy Mind has acquired specialists in therapeutic virtual therapy firm Rescape Innovation. The move will help strengthen Healthy Mind’s presence in the UK and allow it to expand its library of therapeutic VR experiences.

😊 Patients Know Best (PKB) is now live in Germany, as the platform is reshaping how mental health services are delivered with Integrierte Versorgung integrated care platform. With PKB, professionals can onboard patients and create shared records in alignment with Germany’s Coordinated Structured Care guidelines.

🚦 Gastrointestinal molecular diagnostics firm Cyted Health, has secured $44m (£32m) in Series B financing to accelerate the US expansion of its diagnostic platform. It will also help consolidate its existing commercial success across the UK and expand its portfolio of diagnostic tests.

❓Did you know?

Outdated technology could be putting vulnerable individuals at risk, according to research from Canary Care.

The provider of intelligent activity monitoring, polled UK care workers and found that nearly one in two said outdated tech is a safety risk for vulnerable people. In one case, outdated IT prevented lab results from syncing with records, which led to critical sepsis tests being delayed for hours.

Despite this, opinions on tech enabled care, such as intelligent activity monitoring tools, were overall positive. Two thirds agreed that it helps to catch early deterioration, with 76% believing it will help people to stay independent and 79% saying it could save lives or avoid complication.

Care workers also estimate that, when used effectively, remote monitoring could redirect around 31% of their workload to higher value tasks.

The report will be launched at its ‘Empowering Independence: Harnessing Technology and Data for Better Care Outcomes’ event at the Google HQ in London on 23 September 2025.

📖 What we’re reading

In a blog post for The King’s Fund, published on 8 September 2025, Danielle Jefferies, senior analyst, warns that the overall rankings of NHS trusts in league tables may be too simplified to show how NHS hospitals are faring for their different services.

Jefferies writes: “For league tables to be useful to the public, they should help people to understand what to expect if they join the elective waiting list, attend A&E, are waiting for a cancer diagnosis, and so on. And they should help people to hold local leaders to account if their local services are not up to scratch.”

She argues that there is no reliable relationship between how well a hospital trust ranks on its four-hour A&E wait times and how well it ranks for its 18-week elective waiting times or its 28-day faster cancer diagnosis. No single rank can give a meaningful understanding of how well a hospital performs, as variations across services exist.

Instead, Jefferies suggests the government should work with the public to determine what level of detail would be most useful to them. She also proposes an alternative that could be fairer, whereby ranking systems compared trusts to their individual performance improvement goals, rather than comparing to other trusts.

🚨Upcoming events

23 September 2025, Free online event- Quality without Compromise: How Psicon Reimagined Behavioural Health at Scale