NHS England has increased the value of a contract with supplier IBM for additional work on the NHS App to support the government’s NHS App programme.
IBM was initially awarded a contract worth £52.4m in…
A health app for patients in Ireland has been launched by the Department of Health and Health Service Executive (HSE).
The first version of the Health App, which went live on 25 February 2025, is…
Women’s health innovations have received a £1.3 million boost from SBRI Healthcare in partnership with the Health Innovation Network.
Funded by the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), 14 winners of the ‘Competition 25: Women’s Health’, will…
Patients Know Best (PKB) and myTomorrows have partnered to enable UK patients with unmet medical needs to access their health records and conduct more efficient searches for further treatment options.
Under the partnership, which was…
NHS England has commissioned an evaluation to measure the impact of its national virtual wards initiative.
There are more than 12,000 virtual ‘beds’ operating nationwide and in May 2024, NHSE announced proposals to increase access…
Medway and Swale NHS Women’s Health Hub has launched a free digital platform to support new mothers with their postnatal recovery.
Almost a third of mothers experience long-term postpartum conditions which impact their well-being and…
Researchers at the University of Westminster have developed a chatbot for discussing sensitive topics, which they believe could help reduce health inequalities.
The study, published in the journal PLOS Digital Health on 13 February 2025,…
The King’s Fund has called for digital healthcare platforms, including the NHS App, to be more responsive and allow for two-way communications.
A report ‘Lost in the system: the need for better admin’, published by…
Exclusive: A universal patient record across health and care to be accessed by providers, patients, policymakers and researchers, will be a central recommendation in the NHS 10 year health plan, according to papers seen…
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A project to support young people with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has secured funding to develop a multilingual virtual assistant.
A collaboration between the Digital Futures Lab at Torbay and South Devon NHS…
