NHS supplier hit by cyber attack by pro-Iran activist hackers
17 March 2026
The supply of defibrillator products and other medical equipment to the NHS has been affected by a cyber attack by a pro-Iran group.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
17 March 2026
Today’s briefing features a UK charity that uses AI to identify medicines that could be repurposed to treat rare genetic conditions.
De-identified UK Biobank health data accidentally published online
17 March 2026
UK Biobank has confirmed that volunteers’ de-identified health data has sometimes been unintentionally published online by researchers.
Why NHS innovation stalls
17 March 2026
Mindy Simon of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, and Elina Naydenova of Feebris, discuss the barriers to scaling innovation in the NHS.
Study finds virtual treatment can benefit eating disorder patients
16 March 2026
Research from Oxford Health has found that virtual treatment can help prevent admissions and support recovery for eating disorder patients.
Feedback Medical and Patients Know Best announce partnership
16 March 2026
A partnership will bring together Feedback Medical’s elective care platform with Patients Know Best’s personal health record solution.
Child rapist could have profiled victims through NHS data access
16 March 2026
A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have used unaudited database queries to profile his victims.
North west based “robodocs” talk telehealth Covid-19 programme
17 November 2020
Two “robodocs” working across the north west of England have spoken about how they helped
Digital Health Unplugged: Royal Cornwall Digital Testbed
17 November 2020
Joining host Andrea Downey are Gary Jennings, commercial director of Kernow Health, and Ian Nicholls,
Docobo and Doc Abode join forces to improve remote monitoring
17 November 2020
The new interface will enable an alert from the Docobo system to go straight to
Leeds first to deploy imaging tech as part of regional network
16 November 2020
The first trust in the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC) has deployed a picture archiving
IT bungles spark calls for industry to be regulated for ethical standards
16 November 2020
It comes as a number of public sector programmes suffered IT blunders, nearly 16,000 Covid-19
