Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing â
4 September 2025
This issue of Coffee Time includes the launch of Phyxiom’s digital platform and a genetic test that reduces the risk of deafness in newborns.
News
Microsoft launches ambient AI assistant to the NHS
4 September 2025
Microsoft has launched an AI assistant to the NHS which captures clinical conversations to draft documentation and automate follow-up tasks.
Major NHS AI-scribe trial shows âtransformativeâ patient benefits
4 September 2025
Great Ormond Street Hospital will roll out AI-scribe technology, following a major NHS trial which showed âtransformativeâ benefits.
AI stethoscope detects three heart conditions in 15 seconds
3 September 2025
An AI stethoscope has allowed doctors to pick up heart conditions in 15 seconds, giving GPs a quick and simple tool to spot problems earlier.
Devon and Cornwall hospitals go live with digital pathology solution
3 September 2025
Two NHS trusts in Devon and Cornwall have gone live with a digital pathology solution to enable faster cancer diagnosis.
Welsh Nursing Care Record live across inpatient wards
3 September 2025
The Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) is now live across all eligible inpatient wards across 58 hospitals in Wales.
Cheshire trusts face productivity issues following EPR go-live
2 September 2025
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT and East Cheshire NHS Trust are experiencing issues with productivity following the launch of a joint EPR.
Trials of the NHS Covid-19 App ‘not a waste of time’
29 September 2020
Wolfgang Emmerich, founder of ZĂŒhlke Engineering, said âI donât think it [the trial] was wastedâ
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 Betterâs OPENeP electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) solution
South London and Maudsley deploys digital care assistant
28 September 2020
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has begun using Oxehealthâs digital care assistant on
NHS Covid-19 app downloaded 10 million times since launch
28 September 2020
Some six million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app on the first day it was
