GoodSAM app being used to recruit NHS volunteers
25 March 2020
The GoodSAMĀ app is being used to help recruit around a quarter of a million volunteers to support the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak.
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King’s College London launches Covid-19 symptom reporting app
25 March 2020
King’s College London has launched an app that will allow people to report symptoms of Covid-19 and researchers to track the progression of the virus.
Frimley Park Hospital installs new ‘deep learning’ CT scanners
25 March 2020
Called AiCE, the AI algorithm can deliver quicker, more reliable and higher-quality image reconstructions from patient CT scans.
NHS Digital asks PRSB to create national standard for social care
24 March 2020
During the first stage PRSB will be working with different local areas across England to determine which social care situations require national standards.
Digital Health Unplugged: March news team debrief
24 March 2020
Join our news team as we discuss the biggest stories of the month on Digital Health Unplugged. This month we look at coronavirus and the Digital Aspirants.
PatientSource offers ‘lite’ EPR software for coronavirus-hit hospitals
24 March 2020
The slimmed-down version of the PatientSource EPR features a cloud-based electronic observation module complete adapted for Covid-19 patients.
Covid-19: Video consults require ‘major changes to a complex system’
23 March 2020
Strategic leads at both a national and local level will be required to deploy video systems in the face of coronavirus, researchers wrote in the BMJ.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
4 June 2026
Today’s briefing features the detection of Alzheimer’s using VR and a personal training platform that
John Browett named chair of NHS online hospital trust
4 June 2026
John Browett, business leader and former supermarket chief executive, has been named as chair of
Almost 33,000 Bedfordshire patients had data stolen in cyber attack
3 June 2026
Almost 33,000 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust patients had personal data stolen in the cyber
NHS AI scribe rollout should include national oversight, report finds
3 June 2026
The rollout of AI scribes across the NHS should be accompanied by national oversight, according
Hampshire and Isle of Wight adopts continuing healthcare platform
2 June 2026
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (HIOW ICB) has gone live with the
