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

🌍 The NHS has launched a digital tool to tackle long-standing racial disparities in the health system. The Health Action Resource Platform, developed by the NHS Race and Health Observatory, is a free, interactive platform that allows users to explore data on NHS performance by ethnicity, region and deprivation levels and find practical solutions through best practice examples and case studies.

🧑‍💻 Jigsaw Medical has won grant funding from Innovate UK to accelerate its AI clinical coding tool Jigsaw Codes. The tool focuses on simple, high volume visits in order to free up NHS clinical coding teams to focus on more complex admissions. The grant was awarded through Innovate UK’s Growth Catalyst Early Stage: New Innovators programme.

💷 Deciphex has secured €15 million (£13m) in venture debt from Claret Capital Partners to speed up expansion across the US and UK markets. This follows its €31m (£27m) Series C in January. The Dublin-founded company’s AI platforms enable pathologists to work 40% faster with no drop in accuracy, according to the firm.

🙋 The NHS England Transformation Directorate has released a survey to gather experiences of clinical systems and digital tools in general practice. The results of the survey are anticipated to “guide national thinking” and identify priority areas for improvement initiatives and investment. The survey is open until 16 November 2025 and is for all staff working in general practice.

🥽 Medical iSight has launched XRAIview for Apple Vision Pro, allowing raw DICOM image files to be loaded directly from the device or iCloud. The tool eliminates the need to traditional medical monitors, supporting radiologists and clinicians to access studies and 3D constructions via the Apple Vision Pro.

❓Did you know?

A survey from Skin Analytics found that nearly a third (29%) of UK adults have put off getting health advice or care due to lengthy waiting lists. Twenty two percent of survey respondents said they had avoided getting care altogether.

The survey of 2,000 adults noted that patients are increasingly more open to technological advancements that could speed up access to care, with 92% of those questioned agreeing that speed is vital.

Also, 79% said that they would trust the use of AI in healthcare assessments and 71% believed that regulated AI could help reduce NHS wait times.

Patients polled were also conscious of the limitations of AI in healthcare. A lack of empathy was the biggest concern (27%), followed by a lack of accountability if something goes wrong (24%) and fears that reliance on the tech meaning a reduction in human skills (17%).

📖 What we’re reading

The World Health Organization’s policy brief, ‘Accelerating the uptake of digital solutions by the health and care workforce in the WHO European Region’,  published 18 September 2025, explores barriers to implementation – including infrastructure, training time, workload, and legal and technical factors – as well as potential facilitators for the use of AI models, machine learning algorithms and platforms using augmented reality.

“Accelerating digital health technology uptake by the health and care workforce requires addressing systemic and institutional barriers, as well as human factors,” the paper says.

🚨Upcoming events

29 October 2025, ICC Birmingham – Shared Care Record Summit