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

🚀 Quibim, a supplier of precision imaging and AI solutions, has launched QP-Breast in Europe and the UK to detect breast cancer using magnetic resonance imaging – which automatically identifies suspected lesions on breast MRI. It assists radiologists during the interpretation of breast MRI studies by providing accurate detection of lesions suspicious for breast cancer and generating clear, user-friendly reports that slot into existing hospital systems.

🔎 Genomics England has procured an enhanced research environment with improved capability, with Lifebit selected to deliver the platform. It will support more complex analysis, improve usability for researchers, and help accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into healthcare.

⌚ Digital platform Raiys has expanded its connected health capabilities with a feature that enables people to bring together up to 12 months of wearable data in one secure environment, helping them understand longer-term wellbeing patterns and improve their lives. The enhancement provides access to data from smartwatches and fitness trackers on measures including activity, sleep, heart rate and calorie expenditure.

👩‍⚕️ Jane, a fully integrated practice management platform trusted by more than 1,000 UK clinics, has launched AI Scribe for the UK private health and wellness market. Driven by UK customer demand, the AI-powered feature enables practitioners to securely record sessions or dictate notes post-appointment, generating fully formatted clinical notes in minutes; freeing up to 30% of the time currently spent on documentation.

🤝 Onebright Group Ltd, a UK private outpatient mental healthcare and neurodevelopmental services provider, has acquired Mindstep, a digital mental health platform, for an undisclosed sum, creating the UK’s first digitally led and fully integrated end-to-end wellbeing, mental healthcare and neurodevelopmental service.

❓ Did you know that?

Independent ambulance provider Spark Medical has cut up to 80 hours of admin time a month by replacing paper patient records with a mobile electronic patient record (EPR), freeing up time for frontline paramedics and improving how information is shared with NHS ambulance trusts during handover.

Dedalus’ OneResponse system has digitised Patient Report Forms (PRFs) across frontline and events operations for Spark Medical, whose crews manage almost 5,000 patient contacts per month. All contacts were previously recorded on paper and required manual processing.

The introduction of OneResponse enables clinicians to capture patient records digitally at the point of care and share them directly with receiving services, including NHS ambulance trusts.

It removes duplication, improves accuracy of clinical documentation, and ensures that patient information is available immediately across teams during handover.

📖 What we’re reading

Large language models as experimental systems in human psychopathology: a modelling study – The Lancet Digital Health

Despite advances in biomedical research, human psychopathology remains underserved by experimental model systems, limiting therapeutic innovation. Alternative approaches are needed to investigate the mechanisms underlying mental health conditions.

Researchers aimed to assess whether large language models (LLMs) could serve as experimental systems to model affective processes relevant to human psychopathology.

The findings establish LLMs as promising tools for modelling affective processes relevant to human psychopathology.

By reproducing key psychological phenomena, LLMs might enable the experimental investigation of mechanisms underlying mental disorders and facilitate the preliminary screening of novel therapeutic interventions, potentially accelerating progress in a field historically constrained by the scarcity of effective model systems.

🚨 Upcoming events

16-17 July 2026, University of Nottingham – Digital Health Summer Schools