Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
4 December 2025
This week’s briefing includes Kooth’s acquisition of Kismet Health’s telehealth platform and seed funding for Cellbyte.
News
AI tool helps spot deadly clots in stroke patients faster, study shows
4 December 2025
An AI imaging tool can help doctors spot deadly clots in stroke patients more than an hour earlier, a study has found.
UK should make money from NHS patient data, says health minister
4 December 2025
The UK should leverage its new Health Data Research Service for the “benefit of the Treasury coffers”, health minister Zubir Ahmed said.
Humanoid robots to feature at Digital Health Rewired 2026
3 December 2025
Rewired 2026 attendees will have a chance to see a live demonstration of humanoid robots that could revolutionise NHS patient care.
Greater Manchester upgrades PACS cloud portal for image sharing
3 December 2025
NHS hospital trusts across the north west of England will share patients’ radiology images through an upgraded cloud portal from early 2026.
Ireland hits record €491m health tech VC investment
3 December 2025
Irish life sciences and health tech companies set a decade-high record in 2024 raising €491.3 million across 89 VC deals.
Scottish refreshed Life Sciences Strategy plans to harness AI
2 December 2025
The Scottish government has published a refreshed Life Sciences Strategy, which includes harnessing new technologies such as AI.
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
