Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
29 August 2024
Today’s Coffee Time Briefing covers AI technology for bowel cancer detection and drone-delivered lab samples in Scotland.
News
AI could speed skin cancer diagnosis, finds NHSE report
29 August 2024
The use of autonomous AI could improve effectiveness and reducing wait times for skin cancer pathways, according to an NHS England report.
Mid and South Essex selects SYNLAB for £900m pathology contract
29 August 2024
Mid and South Essex NHS FT has chosen SYNLAB as its pathology supplier, despite a cyber attack which caused disruption to services in London.
Dunscombe and Martins announced as Rewired 2025 keynotes
28 August 2024
Professor Rachel Dunscombe and Professor Henrique Martins have been named as keynote speakers at Digital Health Rewired 2025.
Libraries in England to promote the NHS App
28 August 2024
NHS England has announced plans to work with libraries to help more people access online health services and use the NHS App.
Pitchfest finalist Little Journey launches app at Walsall hospital
28 August 2024
An app from Pitchfest finalist, Little Journey has gone live at Walsall Manor Hospital to help young patients prepare for hospital stays.
Electronic children’s observation system rolled out in Shropshire
27 August 2024
An electronic children’s observation system has been rolled out at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals to improve the care of young people.
Cera hits 10 million healthcare visits during Covid pandemic
16 September 2021
Cera said early on it spotted the need to support certain cohorts in their own
AI trial for prostate cancer expanded across five hospitals
15 September 2021
They will be trialling Ibex Medical Analytics AI technology which aims to reduce diagnostic errors
Healthcare professionals ‘failing to prescribe tech’ to older patients
15 September 2021
Older patients are being overlooked by healthcare professionals who are failing to recommend health apps
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
