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.
Health Education England publishes NHS AI roadmap
16 February 2022
Health Education England has published the first roadmap into the use of AI across the
Dorset and Lancashire ICSs pilot ORCHA’s elective care toolkit
16 February 2022
Our Dorset ICS and Lancashire & South Cumbria Health & Care Partnership are piloting an
Ada Health closes Series B funding round at £88.5m
15 February 2022
Ada Health has announced it has closed its Series B round at £88.5million ($120million) following
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital trials AI skin cancer diagnostic tool
15 February 2022
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is trialling a new AI-powered tool to help speed up skin
Homerton Hospital signs eTriage deal to tackle wait times in A&E
14 February 2022
Homerton Emergency Department is set to use eConsult’s eTriage system in a bid to tackle
