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

🧘Social enterprise Good Boost has secured a £200,000 investment from Bristol & Bath Regional Capital’s City Funds to expand its AI-powered tech to support people with musculoskeletal conditions.  The company designs software and hardware for in-person, community-led exercise sessions and at-home virtual sessions, using AI alongside data taken from apps.

💊 Eli Lilly has announced that it will launch an AI and machine learning platform supporting biotech companies to access drug discovery models that have been trained on its research data. TuneLab works on datasets representing experimental data obtained with thousands of unique molecules. Biotech partners will contribute training data to enhance the platform, in return for access.

🤳 Sanofi has launched its AI-powered platform Real Skinformation which has been created to help UK healthcare professionals navigate the evolving landscape of online skincare trends and misinformation. The AI tool scans social media platforms to identify trends, so that healthcare providers are better informed.

📲The Royal College of Occupational Therapists has teamed up with intelligent home care solution provider Lilli to raise awareness of the role technology plays in occupational therapy practice. The two organisations will work together to engage policymakers and funders, advocating for greater investment in occupational therapy-led tech initiatives.

🗣️ The Social Care Institute for Excellence and The Access Group are organising a series of policy roundtables to develop a framework for national standards of care. The four roundtables are taking place in October and November 2025, with insights from the discussions published in January 2026.

❓Did you know?

The digital mental health market is in the midst of a significant transformation, shaped by rapid investment and a shifting landscape of business models, according to investment bank Artis Partners.

Investment in digital mental health surged to $2.7bn in 2024, marking a 38% increase from the previous year, but this growth has been accompanied by a wave of merger and acquisition activity as companies seek to establish financially sustainable models.

Dorian Maillard, partner at Artis Partners, said: “Over the next two to three years, acquisitions will accelerate before the market consolidates into just a handful of dominant operators in Europe and the US.

“Tech-enabled platforms will target both smaller competitors facing growth limitations and innovative AI suppliers to build comprehensive mental health ecosystems.”

He added that the acquisition of Ieso Digital Health UK Limited by Mindler, a deal advised on by Artis Partners, exemplifies the ideal acquisition profile in this landscape: a tech-enabled platform with established NHS contracts, proven clinical pathways, and integrated care capabilities.

📖 What we’re reading

The European Policy Centre (EPC) is urging the European Union to adopt a dedicated Women’s Health Strategy before 2029 to tackle persistent gaps in women’s health across the bloc.

In the report ‘Accelerating Women’s Health’, published on 22 September 2025, the EPC argues that while the EU has made strides in gender equality, women’s health outcomes continue to fall short due to systemic shortcomings in research, policy, data and investment.

“Women’s health must be mainstreamed into all EU legislation and initiatives that concern health in any way,” the report says.

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