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VitalHub UK and CEMBooks have announced a partnership focused on supporting NHS organisations with complementary digital tools for operational insight and situational awareness. The partnership brings together SHREWD, VitalHub UK’s system-level operational platform used to support escalation, coordination, reporting and digital OPEL, with CEMBooks’ department-focused operational management tools. The aligned solutions uniquely enable organisations to [...]
Electiva Healthcare Group has unveiled a new Patient Charter and strengthened clinical governance framework in a significant move to raise safety, transparency and accountability standards across its expanding UK network. The announcement comes amid growing national focus on clinical governance, as healthcare providers face increasing scrutiny to ensure patient safety and quality keep pace with [...]
A new showcase series is reshaping NHS-supplier engagement. Pioneers at the first NHS host brought together hundreds of staff organisation-wide, along with major tech companies and niche innovators in a single day, already inspiring 10 further NHS providers to follow in 2026. Highland has launched Elevate, a new health tech event series that is bringing [...]
MyWay Digital Health has secured £3m in funding to scale its diabetes management platform, which is used across several NHS regions. The Edinburgh-based company, spun out of the University of Dundee in 2017, employs 30 staff across Dundee, Edinburgh and London. It develops data-driven technology to support the management of long-term conditions, with a particular [...]
NHS England has introduced a new depreciation timeline for CIS1, requiring trusts to move completely to CIS2 by 28 February 2027, when access to CIS1 will be removed. Andrew Harrison, director, product management - international at Imprivata, discusses the drive for more secure access to electronic patient record systems that is affecting hospitals in the [...]
Alcidion today announces that Miya Precision Concept Detection has been included on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG – #522634) as a Class 1 Medical Device. The capability has also been successfully registered as a Class 1 Medical Device with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom. Concept Detection [...]
By Dr Tim Jobson, medical director, Predictive Health Intelligence “Intervention timing is everything. Case-finding enables this” Chronic liver disease is often diagnosed only after emergency presentation, when treatment options are limited and damage is irreversible. Because the disease is silent and carries stigma, patients are less likely to seek medical advice. At the same time, [...]
Kyndryl and the University of Liverpool have partnered on AI healthcare to explore how emerging technologies could be used to strengthen future health services. The collaboration brings together Kyndryl’s AI Innovation Lab, Kyndryl Consult AI expertise and Agentic AI Framework with the university’s Civic Health Innovation Labs and AI for Life Frontier research capability. Agentic [...]
The Hamptons Hospital, Peterborough has announced a new partnership with Electiva Healthcare Group to support patients across Peterborough and the wider Cambridgeshire region with faster, simpler access to self-pay elective care. The collaboration brings together The Hamptons Hospital’s established local facilities, clinical teams and inpatient capacity with Electiva’s consumer-facing care pathways, creating a clearer route [...]
X-on Health has announced the official launch of Omni Consult, a major upgrade to its Surgery Connect platform that fundamentally reshapes how patients submit medical requests and how GP practices manage triage workflows. The new functionality unifies patient submissions across channels into a single, structured stream, helping GP practices accelerate clinical response times while reducing [...]
