Augmented reality mental health crisis training app developed
8 July 2025
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS FT and Teesside Uni have co-developed an augmented reality mental health crisis simulation training app.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
8 July 2025
Find out more about two new PAS launches and the news that all babies born in the UK could have their DNA mapped within the decade.
NHS spending £230m annually on paper patient records
8 July 2025
New analysis by Future Health Intelligence has found that the majority of NHS trusts still spend large sums to maintain paper medical records.
Barnsley Hospital to implement care coordination centre
7 July 2025
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a long-term contract with TeleTracking UK to implement a care coordination centre.
Facial recognition app for pain receives more funding
7 July 2025
PainChek’s facial recognition app has received funding to support a further 994 people in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK).
Ming Tang and new Networks chairs respond to 10 year plan
7 July 2025
Ming Tang and the three new chairs of the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panels have responded to the government’s 10 year health plan.
VR improves patient experience at Leeds Children’s Hospital
4 July 2025
Virtual reality technology at Leeds Children’s Hospital is enabling young patients to undergo medical procedures without general anaesthetic.
UnitedHealth Group to buy GP IT provider EMIS for £1.2billion
18 June 2022
American health giant UnitedHealth Group has agreed to acquire EMIS Group in an all-cash deal
NHS Highland harness the benefits of robotic surgery
17 June 2022
NHS Highland has carried out nearly 100 robot assisted surgeries since August 2021, when it
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
17 June 2022
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives brings you news of a digitisation
NHS wants to stop ‘reinventing the wheel’ and involve public in digitisation
16 June 2022
A panel of NHS digital leads have told the ConfedExpo audience that frontline digitisation of
Second NHS official to join Palantir as it guns for £360m contract
16 June 2022
Harjeet Dhaliwal, deputy director of data services at NHS England and NHS Improvement will follow
