Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 January 2025
Today’s news roundup covers Dictate.IT’s new AI clinical assistant and an ORCHA-approved gardening app to support mental wellbeing.
News
Digital health startup Behold.ai enters administration
28 January 2025
UK-based digital health start-up Behold.ai has entered administration after failing to win any contracts under the AI Diagnostic Fund.
Scotland’s ‘Digital Front Door’ to launch this year, says first minister
27 January 2025
John Swinney, first minister for Scotland, has pledged that the country’s ‘Digital Front Door’ platform will launch by the end of 2025.
Digital staff vacancies at Wirral ‘impacted significantly’ on capacity
27 January 2025
Digital healthcare staff vacancies were at 12.5% and “impacted significantly on operational capacity” at Wirral Uni Teaching Hospital NHS FT.
Pitchfest finalist Surgery Hero acquired by Sword Health
27 January 2025
Digital Health Pitchfest competition finalist Surgery Hero has been bought by global AI care company Sword Health.
SurgeOn social networking app for doctors launches in the UK
24 January 2025
SurgeOn, a social networking platform aimed at improving patient care across the globe, is now available in the NHS.
Service launched to manage NHS weight loss medication demand
24 January 2025
A self-referral service has been launched to help healthcare organisations manage demand for new weight loss medications.
Industry news in brief
18 March 2022
Digital Health News industry round-up includes details of Ada Health’s integration with Epic and the
London patients to trial AI chatbot for mental health support
17 March 2022
Patients in London waiting for NHS mental health therapy will trial an AI therapy chatbot
Digital Health Rewired 2022: Day two news roundup
16 March 2022
The final day of Digital Health Rewired 2022 certainly did not disappoint with highlights including
Rewired 2022: CardMedic crowned the winner of Pitchfest
16 March 2022
The final saw CardMedic being crowned the winner of the Pitchfest 2022 on the final
King’s College CEO says hospitals can’t run ‘safely’ without an EPR
16 March 2022
The CEO at King’s College Hospital has said that he believes that in this day
