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28 May 2026

September 18, 2025

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

👇 News

💉 Wolters Kluwer Health has implemented its medication decision support solution, Medi-Span, at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust specialist oncology centre. Medi-Span provides clinicians with screening and personalised alerts tailored to a patient’s clinical context, including allergy and medicine-related content, across all inpatient wards.

🫀 BIOTRONIK, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the German Heart Center Foundation have announced a research and innovation partnership focused on advancing digital and translational cardiology. The partnership will span early-stage ideation to joint development and contract research. Initial projects will focus on developing AI‑driven tools and advanced simulation environments to improve device-based therapies.

🛌 A new standardised methodology for testing medical mattresses has been developed through a two-year Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Essential Healthcare Solutions and the University of Huddersfield. The project was designed to address a lack of consistent testing approaches for medical mattresses in the UK, which makes it difficult for clinicians and procurement teams to compare products and performance.

🧠 Cognitive intelligence platform provider Connectome has received a $2m investment to research how brains are interpreted and provide a clearer picture of cognitive health by making it measurable. By focusing on longitudinal measurement rather than isolated snapshots, Connectome aims to provide more reliable insight into how brain activity varies and how it may shift in relation to lifestyle, environment, and health.

💻 NFC Forum, the global standards body for near field communication technology, has launched a group to promote the safe and effective use of the technology within healthcare to enable safer, better-quality care in applications such as medical devices, pharmaceutical packaging, and healthcare delivery systems. NFC Forum claims global standardisation is vital to deliver patient safety and enhance user experiences.

❓ Did you know that?

Druid AI has released a data-backed analysis that examines how enterprise AI agents actually behave at production scale. The authors of the 2026 AI Adoption Benchmark Report claim that while much of the AI market relies on executive sentiment and future intent, Druid AI reveals what users are doing once AI agents are deployed in live enterprise environments.

The report draws on 15 months of anonymised production telemetry from January 2025 through March 2026 across healthcare, higher education, financial services, HR, and IT. The findings, the authors claim, challenge several widely held assumptions about where enterprise AI adoption and operational value are concentrated.

📖 What we’re reading

James Rawlinson, director of health informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, claims that the NHS digital, data, and technology (DDaT) jobs market is in freefall.

Rawlinson says the talent responsible for delivering the 10 Year Health Plan is “disappearing, underpaid, and rendered invisible”.

The jobs market, he says, is slowing and his analysis shows 38,047 DDaT postings, averaging 827 per month, since June 2022, but the last three months have seen that average drop 23.2% to 477.