Welcome to the February edition of Digital Health Digest!This month, we explore groundbreaking advancements in digital health—from TIA’s new partnership with Nourish for personalized nutritional counseling to AI Optics’ FDA-cleared retinal screening camera. We…
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Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA), has rolled out the Sectra picture archiving and communication system (PACS) for reporting on diagnostic imaging.
The system went live on 21…
The Growing Opioid Crisis During COVID-19
The United States faced an intensifying drug crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, with opioid-related deaths surging dramatically. Drug overdose fatalities increased from 91,799 in 2020 to 107,941 in 2022,…
AI is reshaping healthcare, making it more personalized and proactive, says Daniel Kraft, physician-scientist and founder of NextMed Health and Digital.Health. Kraft sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the healthcare technology conference NextMed Health and…
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A cancer diagnostic pathway management service is among the new products running on the federated data platform (FDP) to launch in 2025, NHS England has announced.
The FDP brings together data currently held in separate…
Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup includes the appointment of a new health minister and a new chief executive at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
Ashley Dalton has been appointed as health minister following the…
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NHS England has placed a job advert for an interim chief information officer (CIO) ahead of the departure of John Quinn.
Quinn announced in January 2025 that he will leave the role at the end…
The number of unemployed information technology workers rose from 98,000 in December 2024 to 152,000 in January 2025, recent data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows. Some see artificial intelligence already having an…
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is using manual data extraction for key reporting tasks, owing to issues with its £450 million Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system.
A trust board paper, published on…
NHS England has launched a ‘common front door’, in partnership with Health Data Research UK, to give health researchers access to its secure data environment (SDE) network.
The online portal went live at the end…
