Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 April 2026
Today’s briefing features an AI method to identify bowel cancer drug patients and an online pharmacy sponsoring ITV panel show Loose Women.
News
Medical device supplier Medtronic hit with cyber attack
28 April 2026
Medical device supplier Medtronic has been hit with a cyber attack that led to unauthorised access to some of its IT systems.
Portsmouth Hospitals awarded £100k for renal care app study
27 April 2026
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has been awarded almost £100k to explore how an app could improve kidney care for patients.
Dartford and Gravesham goes live with digital maternity system
27 April 2026
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the K2 Maternity Information System, delivered by Harris Health Alliance.
GP practice outages caused by IT firewall issue
27 April 2026
A network outage which disrupted access to clinical systems at several GP surgeries was caused by an issue with the practices’ IT firewalls.
Cost of Northern Ireland’s digital care record rises to £400m
24 April 2026
The cost of implementing a digital records system for Northern Ireland’s health trusts has soared to £400 million.
Sheffield introduces surgical robot to advance cancer care
24 April 2026
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has unveiled a new robotic-assisted surgery system to advance cancer care.
Google Health VP talks combing consumer tech with clinical needs
17 June 2021
Speaking at the NHS Confed Conference Dr David Feinberg spoke of the tech giant’s plans
TPP joins Allocate’s ‘Connect Programme’ to help promote interoperability
17 June 2021
Allocate has announced that TPP is the latest partner to join its ‘connect programme’ which
Dedalus Group named as a CCIO Network sponsor
16 June 2021
Healthcare software company Dedalus Group have become a sponsor of the Digital Health CCIO Network.
Government pledges £36m boost for diagnostics under national AI Lab
16 June 2021
The government has pledged £36m for artificial intelligence projects to help “revolutionise” care and diagnostics
G7 called on to support ‘systematic’ approach to global data sharing
16 June 2021
Better use of data to support clinical trials and underpin global disease surveillance were key
