Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 August 2025
Today’s Coffee Briefing includes how language barriers impact care delivery and the new European Data and AI Policy Manifesto.
News
AI tool developed to identify risk of fatal heart condition
28 August 2025
Researchers at Imperial College Healthcare have developed an AI tool to help identify people at risk of developing ‘heart block’.
NHSE seeking Health Data Research Service CEO and chair
28 August 2025
NHSE is inviting applications for the inaugural chair and chief executive of the newly established Health Data Research Service (HDRS).
AI outperforms GPs in MRCGP exams, finds study
27 August 2025
A study found that chatbots outperformed GPs in questions based on the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners exam.
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals signs contract with Mizaic
27 August 2025
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) has partnered with Mizaic to launch an electronic document management system.
Imperial trials at-home monitoring service for dementia patients
27 August 2025
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has launched an at-home monitoring service for dementia patients, called MinderCare.
Oxford-based MedTech firm OrganOx acquired for £1.2bn
26 August 2025
Oxford University spin-out OrganOx has been acquired by global MedTech firm Terumo Corporation in a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) deal.
Network chairs call for clearer framework on new digital maturity rating
1 September 2021
Dr James Reed and Lisa Emery said the guidance “landed well” with leaders but needed
Servelec acquired by local government software provider Access Group
1 September 2021
Servelec has been acquired by the health and social care division of The Access Group
NHSX publishes anticipated ‘What Good Looks Like’ guidance
31 August 2021
The ‘What Good Looks Like’ framework sets out a “clear north star” for digital success
Young patients at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust help name cleaning robots
31 August 2021
A pair of robots, which kept the floors of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Addenbrooke’s Hospital trials AI to help speed up dementia diagnosis
27 August 2021
A patient at Addenbrooke’s Hospital has become one of the first in the country to
