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.
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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.
Manchester University NHS FT goes digital to validate wait lists
21 October 2021
Through using a digital first approach Manchester University NHS FT has saved 2,100 staff hours,
Guy’s and St Thomas’ teams up with TestCard for new Covid test app
21 October 2021
A collaboration between Guy’s and St Thomas’, TestCard and SureScreen is helping improve the reporting
Midlands Partnership launches 5-year digital strategy to ‘enhance care’
21 October 2021
The Midlands Partnership strategy falls into three main categories, digitising care pathways; connecting people with
New information added to NHS Digital’s cyber security campaign
20 October 2021
The Keep IT Confidential cyber security awareness campaign from NHS Digital has been updated with
New £1.4m AI funding aims to reduce racial health inequalities
20 October 2021
The funding, from the NHSX AI Lab and Health Foundation, aims to ensure healthcare solutions
