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.
Technology ‘sometimes a barrier’ for patients and providers during Covid
19 October 2020
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) annual state of care report found a digital divide between
Greater Manchester NHS trusts pen deal with Sectra for imaging network
16 October 2020
Eight NHS trusts in Greater Manchester have penned a deal with Sectra which will change
NHS Covid-19 App updated to fix disappearing exposure alerts
16 October 2020
The messages were caused by default privacy notifications from Apple and Google to alert users
Digital Health’s monthly go live round up
16 October 2020
This month’s round up of go lives across the NHS features Kent Community Health NHS
King’s selects Healthcare Communications to enhance digital strategy
15 October 2020
The provider will implement its patient portal and eClinic video consultation platform at King’s College,
