Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
18 March 2025
Today’s news briefing covers a VR pilot study at East Kent Hospitals and the factors most likely to prompt negative reviews by UK patients.
News
Heart monitoring brought into patient homes through virtual wards
18 March 2025
Inhealthcare and FibriCheck have expanded their partnership to bring hospital-grade heart monitoring into patients’ homes.
AI robots carry out 3,000 care visits a week for vulnerable people
17 March 2025
Health tech company Cera says that it is using droid-like robots to carry out 3,000 care visits a week to elderly and vulnerable people.
Careology and Entia partner to enhance cancer care pathways
17 March 2025
Careology and Entia have partnered to help patients living with cancer to safely self-manage more of their treatment from home.
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust trials AI transcription tool
17 March 2025
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) is piloting an AI tool during clinical consultations to allow consultants more time with patients.
Abolition of NHSE sends shock waves across digital health sector
14 March 2025
We asked digital health leaders to respond to the abolition of NHSE and how it will impact NHS technology and innovation.
Northumbria Healthcare acquires software provider Health Call
14 March 2025
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has acquired Health Call Solutions Limited to increase its range of software products.
Royal Free to study AI tool for breast cancer screening
4 November 2021
Royal Free is to carry out a retrospective study to determine if AI could potentially
TeleTracking joins Digital Healthcare Council to boost patient tracking
3 November 2021
Through joining the Digital Healthcare Council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a “digitally-led, patient-centric NHS”.
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
