Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
13 March 2025
Today’s news briefing covers InterSystems’ new IntelliCare EHR, seed funding for Ignota Labs, and The King’s Fund’s Social Care 360 report.
News
£10m boost for augmented reality glasses to help gamify physio
13 March 2025
Strolll, a company that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to help patients with neurological disorders, has secured £10.35m in funding.
More than 5,000 vital NHS screenings missed due to IT oversight
13 March 2025
An admin error meant more than 5,200 patients weren’t invited to routine screening because their details didn’t reach the right IT systems.
Technology enabled care programme extended in West Midlands
12 March 2025
A West Midlands adult social care programme that uses digital tech to help citizens live safely at home for longer has been extended.
Digital Health Unplugged: How ‘legacy debt’ is risking patient safety
12 March 2025
Host Jordan Sollof is joined by Kaye Reynolds and Sascha Mullen to delve into how ‘legacy debt’ in the NHS is risking patient safety.
Scottish digital falls prevention platform moves closer to full rollout
12 March 2025
A digital platform designed to help people at risk of falling is in the third phase of its trial and closer to rollout in Scotland.
Medefer refutes claim that security flaw left patient data vulnerable
11 March 2025
Online healthcare provider Medefer has denied claims that its application programming interface (API) left NHS patient data vulnerable.
Sheffield Children’s Hospital hosts robot study for paediatrics
4 March 2022
Sheffield Children’s Hospital is hosting a study exploring the use of social robots to calm
Allscripts to sell part of its business to Harris for £526million
4 March 2022
Health IT supplier Allscripts has announced it has reached an agreement to sell its electronic
Scottish hospital pilots AI tech for cervical cancer screening
4 March 2022
University Hospital Monklands is piloting cervical screening technology that uses AI to speed up the
Industry news in brief
4 March 2022
The latest Digital Health News industry round-up includes NHS approval for Verto 365, an ophthalmology
Dedalus to replace Lorenzo EPR with Orbis software
3 March 2022
Dedalus has announced that it will cease offering the Lorenzo electronic patient record (EPR) system
