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Coffee Time Briefing
11 June 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This Coffee Time Briefing includes a call for countries to align health checks across borders through WHO’s Global Digital Health
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25 April 2024

34,000 medication errors reported last year despite investments in tech

Last year saw a total of 34,000 medication errors made, including 21 incidents leading to patient death, and a further
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Coffee Time Briefing
23 November 2023

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This briefing features a lawsuit against UnitedHealth and InnoScot Health and Heriot-Watt University partnering for a webinar on medical device
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A graphic depicting data transfer between a laptop, smartphone and tablet device
30 October 2023

NHS England has not yet proven its case on FDP

With the award of the Federated Data Platform contract said to be delayed until mid-November, Digital Health's Jon Hoeksma argues
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Electronic Prescribing government target 2024
20 October 2023

Government to miss 2024 target for digital prescribing

The government has admitted it is set to miss its goal of eliminating paper prescriptions by 2024, following a report
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25 September 2023

YouTube fights disinformation with verification of health workers

YouTube is continuing with its efforts to verify UK health workers on its channel in a battle to tackle the
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21 April 2022

HEE renews clinical decision support tool than can integrate with EPRs

Health Education England (HEE) is extending its use of BMJ Best Practice, a decision support tool that can integrate with
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Breast Cancer Screening
15 September 2021

AI could lead to ‘overdiagnosis’ of breast cancer, tech body warns

The technology is often seen as “like magic” in healthcare but there is little scientific evidence to support its use
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Clinician with iPad
2 September 2020

BMJ Best Practice made free to access for NHS staff

All staff in England can now access BMJ Best Practice, a point of care tool that guides clinicians and healthcare
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Video Consultation
23 March 2020

Covid-19: Video consults require ‘major changes to a complex system’

Strategic leads at both a national and local level will be required to deploy video systems in the face of
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