Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
1 August 2024
This edition of Digital Health’s Coffee Time Briefing includes Oxford Medical Simulation raising £9.78m to advance VR training in healthcare.
News
Digital Health announces judges for Rewired Pitchfest 2025
1 August 2024
Digital Health has announced the judges for its annual Pitchfest competition for startups, which will take place at Rewired 2025.
Digital tech is key to ‘neighbourhood health’, says The King’s Fund
1 August 2024
Digital technology is key to delivering the new government’s ambition of moving care closer to home, says a report from The King’s Fund.
Majority of NHS staff support use of AI, finds the Health Foundation
31 July 2024
More than three quarters of NHS staff (76%) support the use of AI to help with patient care, according to research by the Health Foundation.
Flo Health secures $200m investment to reach $1bn valuation
31 July 2024
Flo Health, the number one downloaded women’s health app worldwide, has raised over $200 million in an investment from General Atlantic.
Adoption of FDP ‘progressing at pace’, says NHS England
31 July 2024
Adoption of the federated data platform (FDP) is “progressing at pace”, according to an announcement from NHS England.
Hypertension remote monitoring scheme reaches 100,000 patients
30 July 2024
More than 100,000 patients have used the ConnectMe remote monitoring scheme for hypertension management in Scotland, which launched in 2021.
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)
Theranos founder found guilty of four counts of fraud
5 January 2022
The founder of Theranos, a US company that claimed it provided revolutionary blood tests, has
