Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
3 March 2026
Today’s briefing includes funding for Pontiro’s AI evaluation platform and a partnership between RLDatix and Blackrock Health.
News
York and Scarborough pilots digital physiotherapy app
3 March 2026
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot of Ascenti Reach, a digital physiotherapy app.
Reframe Cancer acquires digital prehabilitation firm Alvie Health
2 March 2026
Reframe Cancer, a provider of specialist cancer navigation, has acquired digital cancer prehabilitation business Alvie Health.
Open source platform launched to scale health AI innovation
2 March 2026
The AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare and deepc has launched an open source platform to help scale healthcare AI.
York and Scarborough delays Nervecentre EPR go-live
2 March 2026
Exclusive: York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has delayed the go-live of its Nervecentre electronic patient record system.
ChatGPT Health fails to flag over 50% of medical emergencies
27 February 2026
ChatGPT Health incorrectly triages more than half of medical emergencies and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study found.
Brainomix announces £4.8m funding extension to expand in US
27 February 2026
Brainomix, a stroke and lung fibrosis AI imaging tool provider, has announced a £4.8m funding extension to expand its operations in the US.
Poor datasets risks ‘health data poverty’ in new technologies, experts warn
2 October 2020
Researchers have said technology has the potential to reinforce healthcare inequalities if it is not
Movers and Shakers news roundup
2 October 2020
This month’s Movers and Shakers features appointments at NHSX and the first winners of the
Seven NHS hospital trusts to receive share of £8.7m for e-prescribing
1 October 2020
A further £8.7million is to be dished out to seven NHS hospital trusts to introduce
Chelsea and Westminster’s innovation programme celebrates one year
1 October 2020
An innovation programme run by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating its
NHS Covid-19 app ‘more privacy-centric than original model’
30 September 2020
Five months on and a government U-turn to a decentalised operating model, Professor Eerke Boiten
