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.
Teams from Cambridge University Hospitals innovation competition
18 February 2022
Two teams from Cambridge University Hospitals have been announced as winners of Health Enterprise East’s
Industry news in brief
18 February 2022
The latest Digital Health News industry round-up brings you news of a submission call for
Guy’s and St Thomas’ rolls out Covid screening and recording app
17 February 2022
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust is reducing staff’s admin burden with ClearScreen, a new
Accelerator programme welcomes first LGBTIQ+ supportive company
17 February 2022
An accelerator programme for digital health companies has welcomed a company which aims to support
App which links primary and secondary care is launched in Rotherham
16 February 2022
An app which allows patients to see both hospital and primary care information in one
