Digital health
The NIHR has awarded £2.31m to 24 chronic condition tech projects aimed at stopping a single long-term illness progressing into multi-morbidity. This funding will support the development of technology-assisted workforce solutions focused on preventing a single chronic condition from progressing to multi-morbidity, the presence of two or more long-term health conditions, in community, home and [...]
By Dr Melinda Rees, CEO, Psyomics Spend enough time in the NHS and you stop flinching at the word "productivity”. You hear it in every strategy document, every board meeting, every government announcement. And almost every time, it means the same thing: do more with less. It's the wrong framing. After 25 years working in [...]
Evondos Group, a European health-tech provider transforming home healthcare and the market leader in automated medication dispensing, has announced the appointment of two senior executives. To support rapid growth plans, Tom Ellison will take up the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), while Rasmus Platz has been appointed Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO). Ellison has [...]
TruDoc Healthcare has raised US$15m to expand its virtual-first healthcare platform across the Gulf region. TruDoc operates a virtual-first healthcare platform across Gulf Cooperation Council markets, combining services such as telemedicine, chronic disease management, pharmacy delivery, diagnostics and in-home healthcare. Telemedicine refers to medical consultations carried out remotely using phone or video technology, allowing patients [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AI health platform Qura has raised €1.5m in pre-seed funding to support its plans to improve how non-emergency health conditions are managed across Europe. The funding will be used to expand hiring across medical, engineering and operations teams, invest in digital marketing and community-led growth, advance Qura’s AI health intelligence capabilities and prepare for expansion [...]
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 [...]
Ease Health has launched with US$41m in early-stage funding to expand adoption of its behavioural health software platform among large providers treating mental health and substance use conditions. The New York-based startup has developed a platform that combines admissions processing, patient management and billing tools for behavioural health providers. Many providers rely on two separate [...]
