Up to three out of four Londoners using digital tools to interact with GPs
A new report from the Health Innovation Network and NHSE indicates that up to three quarters of Londoners have used online services, including the NHS App.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing covers a UK mental health charity that is a finalist for four awards and the world’s first blood-matching genetic test for sickle cell.
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NHSE announces £16m procurement of teams to support EPR delivery
NHS England said it had opened a tender to support provider organisations as they seek to get electronic patient records in place by the end of March 2026.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing includes a new cloud-based platform to recruit retired doctors back to the NHS and an AI system to predict pancreatic cancer.
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NHS doctors to take part in AI “bake-off” with ChatGPT at Rewired 2024
Digital Health Rewired 2024 will feature a live AI “bake-off”, where a panel of NHS doctors will test AI LLM models on a series of diagnostic questions.
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EU Covid-19 testing platform exposes database with 11.8m patient records
The COVID-19 testing platform, Coronalab.eu, has exposed a database containing 11.8 million patient records, according to a report in Cybernews.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing finds that AI could be used to combat vaccine hesitancy and a report that a provider of PACs system has partnered with an AI developer.
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NHSE tells trusts that mandated returns essential following EPR
NHS England has written a letter to health service leaders reminding them of their requirement to submit nationally mandated returns during EPR launch.
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UHDB attract hundreds of staff to Paper2Pixels events
The room in the education centre at the Royal Derby Hospital was filled with chatter as staff gathered for the largest of six Paper2Pixels events.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing looks at published research from the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project and new life expectancy data from the ONS,
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