Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
12 May 2026
Today’s briefing features a menās health event at Ipswich Town Football Club and a merger to create a unified care management platform.
News
GPs and hospitals to share patient data for single patient record
12 May 2026
NHS hospitals and GP practices will be required to share patient data under new government legislation to create a single patient record.
Palantir to be granted āunlimited accessā to NHS patient data
11 May 2026
The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir āunlimited accessā to identifiable patient data while working on its FDP.
GP IT supplier Optum acquired by US equity firm TPG
11 May 2026
Optum UK, the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary that owns EMIS, has been acquired by US private equity firm TPG.
Kingās College rolls out AI to enhance cardiac care
11 May 2026
AI software that helps cardiologists make quicker and more accurate decisions has been rolled out at Kingās College Hospital.
App helps more than 260 cardiac arrest witnesses in Essex
8 May 2026
An Essex support service, which includes an app, has helped more than 260 bystanders who saw over 200 out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA).
Midlands hospital uses endoscopy tech to examine small bowel
8 May 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) has begun using capsule endoscopy technology to examine the small bowel.
Digital Health Unplugged: CardMedic win Pitchfest 2022
29 March 2022
Following a successful Digital Health Rewired, Jordan Sollof chats to Dr Rachael Grimaldi, co-founder and
NHS Tayside deploys Alcidion’s early warning monitoring system
29 March 2022
NHS Tayside is joining two other Scottish health boards who have already deployed Alcidion’s early
CW Innovation’s Horizon Fellowship reveals first participants
28 March 2022
CW Innovation has revealed the first participants to join its new Horizon Fellowship programme –
āFind and Treatā mobile van helping to tackle infectious diseases in London
28 March 2022
A mobile health clinic, āFind and Treatā is being used to tackle infectious diseases in
Inhealthcare wins NHS contract to scale up remote monitoring in Scotland
28 March 2022
Inhealthcare has successfully bid for an NHS contract to support the scaling up and mainstreaming
