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Coffee Time Briefing
7 April 2026

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's briefing features a saliva-based pregnancy test called the Lollipop and a healthcare-focused AI interpreter app.
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Coffee Time Briefing
12 August 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This edition of coffee time includes news from the NHS Ambulance Radio Programme and a DIY heart monitor from Phillips
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Mike Trenell and Tim Chico
13 February 2025

South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub partners with health tech startup

Health tech startup Daiser has partnered with the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub to accelerate the translation into digital.
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A tablet and headphones from MediMusic
20 December 2024

‘Music as medicine’ trialled for South Asian people with dementia

MediMusic and Anglia Ruskin University have been awarded £183,682 to investigate how AI and music can help South Asian people with
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22 October 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This Coffee Time Briefing covers a children's healthtech accelerator in Sheffield and ePMA plans at Hampshire & Isle of Wight
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10 October 2024

Funding announced to boost development of health tech for cancer

New medical technologies to diagnose cancer, such as scanners and AI models, will be trialled in the UK following new
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5 September 2024

Innovate UK U-turns on funding for female tech founders

Innovate UK has reversed its decision to slash 50% of grants for the ‘Women in Innovation’ awards, following a campaign
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1 March 2024

Science Creates launches 2nd engineering biology accelerator

The second equity-free, UK-wide engineering biology accelerator programme from Science Create Accelerate has been launched to support start ups.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has pick and Epic EPR.
23 January 2024

Great Ormond Street Hospital joins children’s health data collaborative

A collaborative of leading children's hospitals - including Great Ormond Street hospital - is exploring how children's health data is
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2 June 2023

Lindus Health to accelerate clinical trials with £6.5m funding

After receiving £6.5m, Lindus Health is aiming to revolutionise the clinical trials process by speeding up the process with machine
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