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Emergency departments and minor injury units across Northern Ireland are now benefitting from AI that helps clinicians accurately and efficiently identify bone fractures – deployed rapidly and at scale through Sectra Amplifier Services. Sectra Amplifier Services, provided by Northern Ireland's enterprise imaging partner Sectra, enables healthcare organisations to integrate AI tools directly into their existing [...]
Ahead Health has raised US$6m to expand its AI platform for early disease detection. The Zurich-based start-up was founded in 2024 by former Google executives, medical professionals and health technology specialists. It offers preventative check-ups including MRI scans, advanced blood tests and CT scans through a single AI-powered platform designed to expand access to preventative [...]
OpenAI has acquired the healthcare technology start-up Torch as it expands its presence in healthcare. Torch was building a "unified medical memory" for artificial intelligence, designed to bring a patient’s health data into one place when it is typically siloed across different vendors and formats. Torch’s employees will join OpenAI as part of the acquisition, [...]
Oasys Health has raised US$4.6m to expand an AI platform that automates admin work for mental health providers. The New York-based behavioural health start-up automates tasks including documentation, scribing, billing, scheduling and insurance reimbursements. It also syncs with wearables and apps such as Apple Watch, Oura Ring, Strava and Flo to help providers understand patients’ [...]
By Nick Wilson, CEO of System C As we enter 2026, artificial intelligence has now moved beyond the hype cycle. The question is no longer whether AI will transform health and social care, it's when, and whether we'll deploy it swiftly and wisely - or will we waste the time patients and public finances can’t [...]
Holly Health has announced its first major white-label integration in the public leisure sector through a partnership with GLL - the charitable social enterprise that operates over 250 leisure centres and gyms under its ‘Better’ brand. The collaboration sees Holly Health’s evidence-based habit change technology embedded directly into GLL’s new ‘Live Better’ digital wellbeing features, [...]
A partially sighted woman has regained vision after doctors tried a new eye injection using a low-cost, transparent gel. Nicki can now see and read most lines of letters on an eye test chart, after previously relying on a magnifying glass for close-up tasks and navigating largely by memory. She is one line away from [...]
By Maria Timson, health technology consultant Neighbourhood health is no longer a distant vision, it’s central to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan. This plan calls for three clear shifts: moving care from hospitals into communities, prioritising prevention over treatment, and harnessing digital tools to support people with complex needs. Complementing this, the National Neighbourhood [...]
Butterfly Medical, developer of a proprietary non-surgical solution for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), has announced the successful completion of the final 12-month follow-up for all patients in its international pivotal clinical study. The landmark study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Butterfly Prostatic Retraction Device, a first-line interventional therapy (FIT) for [...]
A study estimates 1.6m adults in England, Wales and Scotland used weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro between early 2024 and early 2025. The research, published in BMC Medicine and funded by Cancer Research UK, found a further 3.3m people said they would be interested in using them over the next year. A UCL [...]
