Back to Top
Dedicated coverage of digital health start-ups from across all parts of health and care, with particular focus on those developed by or working in partnership with NHS organisations. A particular focus on start-ups taking part in Digital Health’s annual Pitchfest competition.
In its ‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS England announced that it would set up test beds to test out new technologies at scale. Kim Thomas reports on the ambition of the projects, in the first of a short series for Digital Health News.
Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust is leading a collaboration to test technologies designed to enable dementia patients to live in their own homes for longer, as part of the government’s innovation test bed programme.
Patients can now book and cancel GP appointments through a new feature launched on iPlato’s MyGP.
Babylon Health says it has launched the first AI capable of triaging patients; although the company acknowledges that it doesn’t always agree with clinicians.
Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other way, leapfrogging old infrastructures in the process. Kim Thomas reports.
GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
