Digital health
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has announced the acquisition of CareBrain, a technology transformation platform purpose-built for the care sector. QCS, an RLDatix company and digital provider of compliance, care management and learning for the care sector, supports over 335,000 care providers and staff across more than 7,200 care locations. The acquisition aims to [...]
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with digital mental health company Psyomics to introduce a new digital platform designed to support improved access by reducing pressure on clinicians, whilst integrating seamlessly with the Trusts clinical systems. The Trust has procured Psyomics’ beseen Adult platform to support clinical and administrative efficiency within its Community Mental [...]
Nourish has secured US$100m funding to scale its nutrition-first care platform for chronic disease and metabolic health. The Series C round brings the company’s total funding to US$215m and values it at US$1.75bn. Nourish combines registered dietitians with AI-powered care agents to tackle chronic disease and improve long-term outcomes. Co-founder Aidan Dewar said: [...]
The NHS modernation bill, brought forward last week, would create a single patient record in England and cut bureaucracy, with ministers saying it would support safer and faster care. The single patient record would mean all NHS providers, including hospitals and GPs, would have to share data so the right doctors, nurses and specialists across [...]
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) and Altera Digital Health have unveiled the results of a digital transformation that has optimised the Acute Abdomen Pathway. By embedding National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) guidance into WWL's Altera Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform, the trust has achieved significant improvements in patient outcomes, [...]
Ditto has raised €7.6m to expand across Europe with its free app that translates complex medical information into plain language. The Rotterdam-based health tech startup has developed an app designed to help patients and their families make sense of what was said in a medical consultation. Ditto was founded in 2024 by Tobias [...]
Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire has launched its second cohort of innovators, bringing together founders, partners and stakeholders from across the region’s health innovation ecosystem. The launch event, held on Thursday 30 April 2026 at Nexus in Leeds, marks the continued growth of the programme following £4.5 million of investment secured in 2025 from the West [...]
Google Health is replacing the Fitbit app, with a US$9.99-a-month Premium tier unlocking its AI health coach and other advanced features. The new app includes all features of the Fitbit app and will become the companion app for all Pixel and Fitbit fitness trackers. Users who already have the Fitbit app will not need to [...]
A new partnership between Cera, Europe’s largest HealthTech company, and automated living registry platform uMed is bringing clinical research directly to the homes of those who need access to innovative treatments the most. The collaboration enables Life Sciences organisations to access ‘invisible’ cohorts - such as the housebound and elderly – enabling them to participate [...]
A new report from Public Policy Projects (PPP), Beyond Bed Management: Enabling Whole-System Patient Flow Through Digital Intelligence, chaired by Dr Victoria Betton, details a transformative approach to patient flow management across the NHS. The report, based on a high-level roundtable with senior NHS, local government, academic, and industry stakeholders, highlights the pressing need to move [...]
