Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
28 April 2026
Today’s briefing features an AI method to identify bowel cancer drug patients and an online pharmacy sponsoring ITV panel show Loose Women.
News
Medical device supplier Medtronic hit with cyber attack
28 April 2026
Medical device supplier Medtronic has been hit with a cyber attack that led to unauthorised access to some of its IT systems.
Portsmouth Hospitals awarded Ā£100k for renal care app study
27 April 2026
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has been awarded almost Ā£100k to explore how an app could improve kidney care for patients.
Dartford and Gravesham goes live with digital maternity system
27 April 2026
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the K2 Maternity Information System, delivered by Harris Health Alliance.
GP practice outages caused by IT firewall issue
27 April 2026
A network outage which disrupted access to clinical systems at several GP surgeries was caused by an issue with the practices’ IT firewalls.
Cost of Northern Ireland’s digital care record rises to Ā£400m
24 April 2026
The cost of implementing a digital records system for Northern Irelandās health trusts has soared to Ā£400 million.
Sheffield introduces surgical robot to advance cancer care
24 April 2026
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has unveiled a new robotic-assisted surgery system to advance cancer care.
TeleTracking joins Digital Healthcare Council to boost patient tracking
3 November 2021
Through joining the Digital Healthcare Council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a ādigitally-led, patient-centric NHSā.
New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch
3 November 2021
It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors
Cera to launch 15 digital healthcare hubs across UK
3 November 2021
Cera is launching 15 new digital healthcare hubs which will support older and vulnerable people
NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams
2 November 2021
In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced
Greater Manchester Care Record to get data from care home Covid tracker
2 November 2021
The Greater Manchester Care Record is recieving data from the Safe Steps Covid Tracker, an
