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.
Health committee urges government to ‘further progress’ NHS digitalisation
7 January 2022
The Health and Social Care Committee has urged the government “to make further progress on
Industry news in brief
7 January 2022
The latest Digital Health News industry round-up includes a new app for arthritis patients, a
Hospify platform to shut down following suspension of Data Protection Act
6 January 2022
The Hospify platform will close on 31 January after its “exponential growth curve collapsed” as
NHS App celebrates turning three with 22million users
6 January 2022
The NHS App was launched in December 2018 and now boasts 22million registered users –
NHS Digital’s Prof Jonathan Benger awarded CBE for ‘services to the NHS’
5 January 2022
NHS Digital’s Professor Jonathan Benger has been awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
