Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
3 June 2025
Today’s coffee briefing covers Boots’ new SmartSkin tool and a £1.2m population health contract awarded by Norfolk and Waveney NHS ICB.
News
New feeds allow Welsh health boards to send data to DHCW
3 June 2025
Four national data feeds have gone live in Wales through the National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to connect data across services.
NHSE warns that AI translation apps could impact patient safety
3 June 2025
NHS England has raised concerns that the inappropriate use of AI translation apps in healthcare could cause risks to patient safety.
Digital Health Networks advisory panels’ new members announced
2 June 2025
The newly elected members for the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panel 2025–2027 term have been announced.
Mid and south Essex to launch ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service
2 June 2025
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has signed a 15-year contract with SYNLAB for the delivery of a ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service.
Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification tool
2 June 2025
Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented Sectra’s Anonymise and Export functionality, which de-identifies medical images for research purposes.
Trinity Homecare trials AI-powered support app for carers
30 May 2025
At-home and domicilliary provider Trinity Homecare has completed a successful pilot of CareBrain’s AI-driven support app.
PRSB officially launches vendor-backed scheme to promote standards
15 September 2021
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has officially launched a scheme to help support the
AI could lead to ‘overdiagnosis’ of breast cancer, tech body warns
15 September 2021
The technology is often seen as “like magic” in healthcare but there is little scientific
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust expanded EPR helps reduces wait times
14 September 2021
Bolton NHS FT has implemented a new digital solution for tracking patient referrals which has
Devon patients save thousands of hours with virtual appointments
14 September 2021
In the 12 months up to 22 August 2021, Devon held 350,015 hospital appointments virtually
Hampshire Hospitals to explore the use of AI to identify prostate cancer
14 September 2021
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) has teamed up with Lucida Medical Ltd for a
