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Professor Kathrin Cresswell, professor of digital innovation in health and care at the University of Edinburgh

Cresswell: ‘Some users are disappointed with ambient scribes’

3 June 2026

Professor Kathrin Cresswell warns that the “heightened expectations” placed on digital technologies can be “very damaging”.

Dr Penny Kechagioglou, consultant oncologist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

Penny Kechagioglou: ‘We’ve become too attached to AI’

27 May 2026

Ahead of Digital Health Summer Schools, Dr Penny Kechagioglou discusses clinical leadership and health inequalities.

Christos Vasilakis, founding director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement at the University of Bath, standing in a corridor with wooden panelled walls, wearing a light blue shirt and looking at the camera.

Digital modelling should be at the heart of fixing hospital discharge

20 May 2026

The technology to address delayed discharge must be used in a coordinated, system-wide way, write Christos Vasilakis and Zehra Onen Dumlu

Robert Turnbull, care technology expert at PA Consulting

Why TEC data will shape the future of preventive digital care

13 May 2026

If TEC is to deliver on its promise, practitioners need to trust its insights, writes Robert Turnbull, care technology expert

Tammy Lovell, editor at Digital Health News, tries out the SuperBrain haptic headset by 7Sense

10 lessons from Estonia for NHS digitisation

11 May 2026

Estonia demonstrates that digital transformation is less about tech and more about trust, writes Tammy Lovell, editor at Digital Health

Joe’s View: A very Aussie Christmas

23 December 2024

Joe McDonald is in Melbourne for the festive season. And it isn’t just the heat

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‘Desperate shortage of clinical coders creates financial uncertainty’

19 December 2024

A shortage of clinical coders has wide-ranging consequences, argues Dr Marc Farr, chair of the

Henrique Martins: ‘The UK needs to go big with harmonised large datasets’

17 December 2024

Henrique Martins shares his views with Digital Health News on the forthcoming NHS 10 year

High-quality data is the foundation on which to build the NHS’s 10-year plan

10 December 2024

Transitioning from analogue to digital is not merely a technical challenge, writes Reecha Sofat, chair

NHS England’s federated data platform: One year on

2 December 2024

Many of the initial concerns about the FDP have proven unfounded one year after its

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Cresswell: ‘Some users are disappointed with ambient scribes’

Penny Kechagioglou: ‘We’ve become too attached to AI’

Digital modelling should be at the heart of fixing hospital discharge

10 lessons from Estonia for NHS digitisation

Joe’s View: A very Aussie Christmas

‘Desperate shortage of clinical coders creates financial uncertainty’

Henrique Martins: ‘The UK needs to go big with harmonised large datasets’

High-quality data is the foundation on which to build the NHS’s 10-year plan

NHS England’s federated data platform: One year on

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Morley: ‘We need greater regulation of ambient voice technologies’

Embedding PHM at the heart of the Model ICB

Andy Hardy: ‘It’s unbelievable we don’t all have sight of patient records’

‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’

Allied health professionals must be proactive and ‘seek out’ AI

Can the NHS 10 year health plan fix health tech procurement?

The importance of human touch in Wes Streeting’s digital NHS

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

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