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Digital Health News is a dedicated news platform that focuses on the digital evolution in health and social care. It covers everything from major NHS systems to mobile applications.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

2 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Owen Hughes

Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”. 👇 News🏋️ Health tech company DocHQ has partnered with physiotherapy provider, First Point Physio, to extend its services to NHS patients registered at 160 GP surgeries. DocHQ uses AI and computer vision to support physios, delivering 600 preloaded workouts for 80 conditions.
Summer Schools 2025 draft programme published

3 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Tammy Lovell

The Digital Health Summer Schools 2025 programme has been published in draft It features leading CCIOs, CIOs, CNIOs, and national and local digital leaders who are part of the NHS 10 year health plan working groups Summer Schools is taking place on 17-18 July 2025 at the University of Warwick The Digital Health Summer Schools 2025 programme has been published in draft.
AI project to predict health outcomes paused over GP data concern

3 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Tammy Lovell

NHS England has paused development of a generative AI model capable of predicting future health outcomes after doctors raised concerns about the use of GP patient data The model, called Foresight, is trained on de-identified NHS data from 57 million people in England The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners joint GP IT committee said that it had not been made aware that GP data collected for COVID-19 research had been used to train the AI model NHS...
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

4 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Owen Hughes

Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”. 👇 News📝 Norfolk and Waveney NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) has awarded a £1.2 million contract to Prescribing Services to provide digital tools for population health management and risk stratification. The contract runs until September 2027 and will support the ICB’s strategy to better target care by using data to identify health risks and plan interventions.
NHSE warns that AI translation apps could impact patient safety

4 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Tammy Lovell

AI and Data, News, Smart Health NHS England has raised concerns that the inappropriate use of AI translation apps in healthcare could carry risks around accuracy and patient safety An NHSE framework, published in May 2025, warns that digital exclusion can prevent people in the UK with limited English proficiency from accessing healthcare services It recommends a national policy briefing is developed on the ethical and appropriate use of AI in healthcare for translation and interpreting...
Digital Health Networks advisory panels' new members announced

5 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Tammy Lovell

The newly elected members for the Digital Health Networks advisory panels 2025–2027 term have been announced Each panel consists of 12 elected members who serve a two-year term They are supported by sixadditional members selected by elected panel members The newly elected members for the Digital Health Networks advisory panels 2025–2027 term have been announced.
Mid and south Essex to launch ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service

5 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Tammy Lovell

Digital Transformation, Integrated Care, News Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has signed a 15-year contract with SYNLAB for the delivery of a unified ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service The contract, which begins in October 2026, will bring together the pathology services that support GP practices and clinicians across the trust’s Basildon, Broomfield and Southend hospitals, with a patient population of 1.2 million It includes blood, tissue and other sample testing, as well as...
Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification tool

5 days ago | digitalhealth.net | Owen Hughes

Barts Health NHS Trust has gone live with Sectra’s 'anonymise and export' functionality The tool removes the need for manual de-identification of diagnostic images, helping NHS teams save time while supporting secure medical research De-identified imaging data will feed into the Barts Health Data Platform, with the feature also expected to support future AI development by enabling researchers to train and test models on large volumes of anonymised data Barts Health NHS Trust has gone live...
Trinity Homecare trials AI-powered support app for carers

1 week ago | digitalhealth.net | Owen Hughes

AI and Data, Integrated Care, News At-home and domicilliary care provider Trinity Homecare has completed a pilot of CareBrain's AI-driven support app CareBrain is designed support carers by answering care-related questions, assisting with training and providing access to key information The pilot provided feedback from carers to inform the app's future development An AI-powered support app for carers has been trialed by at-home and domiciliary care provider Trinity Homecare. CareBrain is...
AI chest X-ray software rolled out at Leeds Teaching Hospitals

1 week ago | digitalhealth.net | Jordan Sollof

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has deployed Annalise.ai’s AI chest X-ray solution to speed up diagnosis and improve patient care The software went live in May 2025 and will act as a ‘second pair of eyes’ for clinicians, identifying up to 85 different findings, including findings suggestive of lung cancer LTHT has partnered with Annalise.ai and Newton's Tree for the project, which is backed by the NHS AI Diagnostic Fund and delivered through the Yorkshire Imaging Collaborative (YIC)...