Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
4 February 2025
Today’s news roundup covers £10m in funding for Liverpool’s new healthtech hub and a pilot of EnrichMyCare at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
News
Guidance launched to ensure safety of digital mental health tech
4 February 2025
The MHRA has issued guidance to help manufacturers ensure that digital mental health technologies are effective, reliable and safe.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals sets new date for Oracle EPR go-live
4 February 2025
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has set a new date for the go-live of its Oracle Health electronic patient record (EPR).
New York Blood Center Enterprises hit by ransomware attack
3 February 2025
A cyber attack has forced New York Blood Center Enterprises to postpone appointments despite blood shortages.
NHS Supply Chain selects Leidos as cyber security provider
3 February 2025
US-based IT and defence company Leidos has been appointed cyber security provider for NHS Supply Chain under a three-year contract.
Wirral cyber attack set back cancer waiting times by months
3 February 2025
Waiting times for cancer pathways at Wirral University Teaching Hospital have been “significantly impacted” by last year’s cyber incident.
Digital mental health service to support lymphoedema patients
31 January 2025
NHS Wales’ digital wellbeing service is helping patients manage the mental health impacts of lymphoedema and lipalgia syndrome.
University of Oxford establishes institute for data science
29 September 2021
The Data Institute will bring together academics from a range of disciplines including policy experts,
GPs in the South West turn to robots to access Dorset Care Record
29 September 2021
GPs in the region are being given click through access to the Dorset Care Record
Chelsea and Westminster to explore digital tools for HIV
29 September 2021
Working with Gilead Sciences, Cheslea and Westminster will also look at the potential impact of
Dr Tim Ferris: Digital change is ‘really difficult’ but ‘essential’
28 September 2021
The new director of transformation at NHS England and Improvement has said digital change in
Barts Health rolls out new app to support cognitively impaired
28 September 2021
Barts Health NHS Trust, working with UCLPartners and Maldaba, has rolled out a new app
