Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
19 August 2025
This edition of Coffee Time includes a NICE consultation on updates to its HealthTech programme manual and Epic launching an AI scribe.
News
Digital Health Unplugged: The award winners driving digital transformation
19 August 2025
Three of the 2025 Digital Health Awards winners discuss how they are driving digital transformation and discuss the NHS 10 year health plan.
OneAdvanced purchases INPS Vision EPR
19 August 2025
OneAdvanced has purchased certain assets of In Practice Systems (INPS) relating to the Vision electronic patient record (EPR) system.
AI-assisted tool on FDP will help write hospital discharge letters
18 August 2025
The NHS federated data platform will host a new AI-assisted discharge summaries tool, the government has announced.
Patchwork Health welcomes 17 new partnerships in eight months
18 August 2025
Digital health firm Patchwork Health has welcomed 17 new partnerships since its acquisition of L2P last year.
AI used by local authorities may introduce gender bias in care
18 August 2025
Large language models used by local authorities in England may be introducing gender bias into care decisions, according to researchers.
Dorset Care Record accessed record 175,000 times in July 2025
15 August 2025
The Dorset Care Record (DCR) was accessed more than 175,000 times by patients in July 2025.
Mental health trusts still unable to access patient records months after attack
13 October 2022
The NHS is struggling to recover EPRs for 12 mental health trusts after the most
Client data exfiltrated in Advanced NHS cyber attack
13 October 2022
Health and care software supplier Advanced has confirmed that client data were accessed and extracted
MHRA and NICE receive funding to explore digital mental health tools
13 October 2022
MHRA and NICE will be exploring the regulation of digital mental health tools, with help
Cerner Millennium EPR issue now resolved following national outage
12 October 2022
Downtime and performance issues with Cerner Millennium electronic patient record systems, causing a national outage
Rewired Pitchfest invites scale ups to apply for 2023 contest
12 October 2022
Applications for our 2023 Rewired Pitchfest competition are now open and for the first time
