Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
19 May 2026
Today’s briefing features a blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier and an AI-imaging software platform to treat lung disease.
News
NHS SBS launches £900m healthcare AI solutions framework
19 May 2026
NHS Shared Business Services has launched a £900m framework agreement to support the procurement of AI across the NHS.
NIHR backs digital social care research projects with £5.4m funding
18 May 2026
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded £5.4m to nine digital social care research projects.
Networks chairs respond to NHS Modernisation Bill and SPR plans
18 May 2026
The chairs of the Digital Health advisory panels have reacted to the NHS Modernisation Bill, including plans for a single patient record.
North Cumbria goes live with EPR following delay by NHSE
18 May 2026
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) has gone live with phase one of its Alcidion electronic patient record (EPR).
Diaverum launches AI-powered kidney disease education tool
15 May 2026
Swedish renal care provider Diaverum has launched an AI health assistant designed to make kidney health education more accessible.
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
15 May 2026
Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives features electronic patient record (EPR) contract awards for The Access Group and Epic.
Black Country Pathology Services pushes through with lab info go-live
30 September 2020
Black Country Pathology Services has gone live with a laboratory information system despite coronavirus threatening
Care homes to receive thousands of iPads to tackle loneliness
30 September 2020
The Department of Health and Social Care will provide up to 11,000 iPads to care
Trials of the NHS Covid-19 App ‘not a waste of time’
29 September 2020
Wolfgang Emmerich, founder of Zühlke Engineering, said “I don’t think it [the trial] was wasted”
Chelsea and Westminster partner up with The Burdett Trust for fellowship
29 September 2020
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered up with The Burdett Trust for
Liverpool University chooses Better way to teach e-prescribing
29 September 2020
The university is set to use Better’s OPENeP electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) solution
