Proving value
Posted in partnership with Spital Clinic Research covering 46,336 UK workers found no benefit from eleven common wellbeing interventions. The procurement habits that built that market have not changed, and engagement dashboards are the reason why. The scale of the problem is not in dispute. Health and Safety Executive statistics show that 1.9 million workers [...]
Posted in partnership with Jeen Health England's 10 Year Health Plan commits to population-based polygenic risk scoring aimed at people at high risk of common disease. Forty years of epidemiology suggests that is where the fewest cases are. The 10 Year Health Plan for England commits the NHS to a genomics population health service, accessible [...]
By Digital Workforce HETT 2026 is soon approaching – The Digital Workforce’s NHS team will be attending the event in London on 29–30 September. Our cancer pathway and diagnostics experts Jas Cartwright and Chris Sleight will also take the stage in the AI Spotlight- speaker spot to discuss how automation can streamline patient care and [...]
AOVO, a private nephrology research facility on the Gold Coast, has reduced core clinical trial workflows from 30 to 45 minutes to under five using ORCA Opti Assist, while a single morning’s billing review also surfaced tens of thousands of dollars in unclaimed items. AOVO operates a private nephrology research facility on the Gold Coast, [...]
AI scribes cut doctors’ documentation time by 69.1 per cent during simulated primary care appointments, a study of nine physicians found. The digital tools can record audio and use it to generate structured, regulatory-compliant clinical notes for patients’ medical charts. The research, led by University of Toronto PhD student LaShawn Murray, involved nine physicians completing [...]
By Sanius Health Survival in systemic light chain amyloidosis has improved materially, yet the central challenge has not disappeared. Patients can live longer while still carrying profound cardiac limitation, fatigue and loss of independence. For haematology, the next question is therefore more demanding than whether treatment extends life. We must also establish whether patients can [...]
By Yaqi Xie, co-founder, Neurotact Why developing novel medtech extends beyond the technology itself When we talk about progress in medtech, we often think of visible milestones: securing funding, beginning clinical studies, obtaining regulatory approval or reaching the market. These are important achievements, but they capture only part of what it takes [...]
Independent ambulance provider Spark Medical has cut up to 80 hours of admin time a month by replacing paper patient records with a mobile EPR, freeing up time for frontline paramedics and improving how information is shared with NHS ambulance trusts during handover. Dedalus’ OneResponse system has digitised Patient Report Forms (PRFs) across frontline and [...]
Hospitals and universities are repurposing drugs through late-stage trials at funded costs up to 90 per cent lower than industry studies. The findings point to a “hidden” research system outside the patent system, which could help provide more affordable treatments. Examples include using a cancer drug to treat a leading cause of blindness, changing a [...]
More than 500,000 NHS staff are being given AI tools that could free up around two days a month for patient-facing work. NHS England said it is significantly accelerating AI adoption across healthcare services by giving 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The AI personal assistant helps clinicians draft documents and [...]
