Digital health

  • Silver Buck enhances strategic expertise with new high profile advisory board members and partnerships

    Healthcare and health tech PR and communications agency, Silver Buck, has strengthened its advisory board, the Silver Buccaneers, with four new high-profile appointments from across the digital health landscape bringing a wealth of expertise spanning clinical innovation, health policy and patient advocacy. The new members are: Dr Umang Patel: Chief Clinical Medical Officer, Microsoft Trishna [...]

  • Queen Victoria Hospital paves the digital way for treating patients in Minor Injuries Unit

    Queen Victoria Hospital NHS FT successfully delivers Archie EPR, electronic patient record (EPR) system in partnership with Altera Digital Health to help improve productivity and efficiency using digital technology to enhance patient care. The Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) service led the way for digital adoption, staff adapted quickly and used digital record keeping for their [...]

  • Data-driven digital health businesses challenged with balancing AI advances and tighter regulation in 2026

    With contributions from Shereen Younis, trainee solicitor with Osborne Clarke Data has become the defining battleground for digital health. As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities accelerate, interoperable health records gain traction and hyper-personalised care moves into the mainstream, digital health businesses face a fundamental tension: how to square patient and customer demand for tailored, tech-enabled services [...]

  • Flok Health announces digital physio expansion

    Flok Health has rolled out digital physio across 11 NHS areas in England, extending its app-based service to more than 2.4 million patients. The expansion follows pilot programmes in 2025, as the NHS looks to digital provision for musculoskeletal (MSK) care, which covers conditions affecting muscles, bones and joints, including back pain. The service offers [...]

  • Signature Clinic and CES Medical form strategic clinical partnership in Kent

    Signature Clinic has entered into a strategic clinical partnership with CES Medical, under which patients will undergo cosmetic surgery at CES Medical’s Tunbridge Wells facility.           The agreement enables patients in the South East to access Signature Clinic’s network, with surgery performed under CES Medical’s established clinical governance framework. As part of the collaboration, CES Medical [...]

  • Blackrock Health partners with RLDatix to strengthen continuity of care and operational resilience during EPR downtime

    RLDatix has welcomed Blackrock Health as the latest organisation to adopt IPeople Offline Suite to support continuity of care, improve patient safety and strengthen operational resilience across its MEDITECH environment. Building on the solutions’ success across North America, this first European deployment will help clinical and operational teams maintain access to near-real-time patient information during [...]

  • Digital Workforce secures deal annually valued over £1m with US Academic Health System

    Digital Workforce, a global leader in enterprise automation and AI-driven solutions, has announced a landmark deal with one of the largest integrated academic health systems in the world. The US based Academic Health System employs over 80,000 people - almost three times as many as employed by the UK’s largest NHS trust - and comprises [...]

  • Mental health patients first to benefit from digital prescribing in north Wales

    Mental health patients in Wrexham are the first in north Wales to benefit from new technology that makes prescribing easier and safer for them and the healthcare staff managing their medication. Mental health wards at Wrexham Maelor Hospital are now using electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA), which helps clinicians deliver more efficient care. In [...]

  • Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire opens applications for next accelerator cohort

    Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire is inviting innovators with ambitious healthtech solutions to apply for the next cohort of its flagship accelerator programme, supporting businesses to develop, test and scale innovations within the NHS and wider healthcare system. The programme is free for successful applicants and offers a comprehensive package of support, including enhanced business development, [...]

  • Opinion: Why healthcare providers must secure digital files

    By James Neilson, SVP of Global at OPSWAT Healthcare depends on speed, trust, and constant information sharing. Referrals, discharge summaries, medical images, test results, and patient-uploaded documents arrive continuously across multiple systems and networks to ensure services aren’t disrupted.   Very few clinicians will think twice about opening any of the dozens of [...]