Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 August 2025
Today’s Coffee Briefing includes how language barriers impact care delivery and the new European Data and AI Policy Manifesto.
News
AI tool developed to identify risk of fatal heart condition
28 August 2025
Researchers at Imperial College Healthcare have developed an AI tool to help identify people at risk of developing ‘heart block’.
NHSE seeking Health Data Research Service CEO and chair
28 August 2025
NHSE is inviting applications for the inaugural chair and chief executive of the newly established Health Data Research Service (HDRS).
AI outperforms GPs in MRCGP exams, finds study
27 August 2025
A study found that chatbots outperformed GPs in questions based on the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners exam.
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals signs contract with Mizaic
27 August 2025
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) has partnered with Mizaic to launch an electronic document management system.
Imperial trials at-home monitoring service for dementia patients
27 August 2025
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has launched an at-home monitoring service for dementia patients, called MinderCare.
Oxford-based MedTech firm OrganOx acquired for £1.2bn
26 August 2025
Oxford University spin-out OrganOx has been acquired by global MedTech firm Terumo Corporation in a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) deal.
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
Movers and Shakers news roundup
8 May 2026
Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup features a new chief executive for Oxford Health NHS
GP online bookings causing isolation for older people, finds study
7 May 2026
Research suggests older people are being excluded from GP services due to the shift towards
