Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
9 December 2025
Today’s round includes innovations in robotic colon surgery and research into how comfortable patients are confiding in AI.
News
AI note-taking tool helps speed up autism and ADHD assessments
9 December 2025
An NHS provider of ADHD and autism assessments found that using an AI clinical note-taking tool helped to reduce admin time for clinicians.
Workplace pressures holding back NHS digital plans, finds survey
8 December 2025
Workforce pressures are the biggest blocker to digital transformation, according to research carried out by Digital Health.
NHS maternity dashboard launched to prevent tragedies
8 December 2025
A national dashboard is being rolled out across NHS maternity services to help spot serious safety issues and prevent neonatal tragedies.
PRSB to relaunch in 2026 with new funding model
8 December 2025
Exclusive: The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) will relaunch in 2026 with a revised funding model, after NHSE ceased core funding.
AI-guided mental health tool piloted at GP surgeries
5 December 2025
An AI-guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tool to help manage mental health problems is being piloted in GP surgeries.
Four in five care providers using digital social care records
5 December 2025
Four in five (80%) of care providers have replaced paper-based processes with digital social care records, the government has announced.
Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’
16 May 2022
Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs)
Imperial College London to collaborate with Allocate for staffing tools
16 May 2022
Imperial College London has agreed a deal with Allocate Software for its patient acuity methodologies
NHS Dorset Integrated Care System appoints a chief digital officer
13 May 2022
NHS Dorset has made two new appointments to its board with a new chief digital
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
13 May 2022
The latest roundup features news from Birmingham Community Healthcare and Leeds Teaching Hospitals, who both
HIMSS Level 7 ‘not a badge for IT’ for Royal Free London
12 May 2022
The CDIO at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust spoke to Digital Health about the
