Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
23 September 2025
Today’s Coffee Time includes the launch of Lilie 9.5 for Iodx and an expansion to Germany for Patients Know Best.
News
Digital Health Unplugged: How can the NHS attract female innovators?
23 September 2025
The co-directors of the NHS Innovation Accelerator discuss how the NHS can attract female innovators and others from underrepresented groups.
NHSE to launch £6m AI research screening platform
23 September 2025
NHSE is building a £6 million AI research screening platform to enable trusts to join trials of AI in screening to help speed up diagnosis.
Major IT outage delays 1,600 patient appointments
22 September 2025
Around 1,600 patient appointments have been postponed following an IT outage at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s connects into NHS App
22 September 2025
Patients at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS FT can now access their appointment details through the NHS App.
GOSH will harness AI to improve care for children, says CDIO
22 September 2025
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT is “embedding AI into clinical care, operations and research”, said Mark Coker, CDIO.
Four 5G healthcare solutions in North East to receive CPI support
19 September 2025
Four companies offering 5G-enabled healthcare solutions will receive support from CPI as part of its 5G Innovation Programme.
Palantir to be granted ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data
11 May 2026
The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to identifiable patient data
GP IT supplier Optum acquired by US equity firm TPG
11 May 2026
Optum UK, the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary that owns EMIS, has been acquired by US private
King’s College rolls out AI to enhance cardiac care
11 May 2026
AI software that helps cardiologists make quicker and more accurate decisions has been rolled out
App helps more than 260 cardiac arrest witnesses in Essex
8 May 2026
An Essex support service, which includes an app, has helped more than 260 bystanders who
Midlands hospital uses endoscopy tech to examine small bowel
8 May 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) has begun using capsule endoscopy technology to examine
