Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
4 March 2025
This Coffee Time Briefing includes a pledge to boost digital inclusion and AI-powered cardiovascular screening using retinal imaging.
News
AI predicts hospital stay lengths for people with learning disabilities
4 March 2025
An AI model has been developed to predict how long a person with a learning disability is likely to stay in hospital.
West Yorkshire ICB goes live with continuing healthcare platform
3 March 2025
West Yorkshire ICB has selected IEG4’s Continuing Health Care platform for its Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership.
Nominations open for Digital Health advisory panel members
3 March 2025
Nominations for digital health leaders to join the Digital Health advisory panels open today for the 2025-2027 term.
Programme launched to scale digital health innovation in the Midlands
3 March 2025
Grow Digital Health Midlands 2025 has been launched to support UK companies to develop and scale digital health innovations within the NHS.
Digital therapeutics toolkit improves respiratory outcomes in Wales
28 February 2025
A respiratory digital therapeutics toolkit is improving outcomes and reducing health inequalities for people with asthma and COPD in Wales.
GP appointments to be booked online to end ‘8am scrabble’
28 February 2025
Patients will be able to request GP appointments online from October 2025, under changes to the GP contract.
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
