Glaucoma Coaching Program Improved Medication Adherence
A randomized trial of the Support, Educate, Empower (SEE) glaucoma coaching program showed a significant rise in medication adherence and a reduction in glaucoma‑related distress compared with mailed education. Six‑month electronic adherence averaged 77.6% in the coached group versus 58.0% in controls, and 54.9% of participants achieved ≥80% adherence versus 23.7% of controls. Intra‑ocular pressure remained unchanged, and the intervention experienced higher loss‑to‑follow‑up. The study highlights behavioral gains but raises questions about feasibility and generalizability.
UnityAI Secures $8.5M to Scale Agentic AI for Healthcare Operations
UnityAI announced an $8.5 million Series A round led by Third Prime, bringing its total capital to $15 million. The startup deploys an agentic AI workforce that autonomously manages patient scheduling, referrals, and staff shift coordination across hundreds of care sites. It already...
Magentus Launches UK Advisory Board to Strengthen Clinical Diagnostics Strategy
Magentus announced the creation of a UK Advisory Board composed of senior NHS figures such as Dame Barbara Hakin and Professors Ian Abbs and Erika Denton. The board will provide independent insight to shape product direction, align with NHS priorities...
With Evo 2, AI Can Model and Design the Genetic Code for All Domains of Life
Evo 2, an AI foundation model published in Nature, was trained on over 9.3 trillion nucleotides from 128 000 genomes spanning bacteria to humans. The model can pinpoint disease‑causing mutations, such as BRCA1 variants, with more than 90 % accuracy and design synthetic genomes...
Cleveland Hospital Partners with OneDose for EMS-Specific Medication Safety
OneDose has launched eMACC, an electronic Medication Administration Cross‑Check app tailored for EMS clinicians, in partnership with University Hospitals’ EMS Institute. The tool digitizes cross‑checks, pushes protocol updates instantly, and aims to cut medication errors by more than 40 %. Early...
ASTP/ONC to Prioritize Interoperability in 2026
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) announced that interoperability will be its top priority in 2026, with a series of final rules aimed at strengthening health information exchange. Dr. Thomas Keane, HHS’s assistant secretary for technology policy, detailed the...
Stryker Execs Discuss Mako RPS Launch at AAOS
Stryker unveiled its handheld surgical robot, Mako RPS, at the AAOS meeting, following FDA clearance and its first cases in January. The device is in a limited market release that will run through the first half of the year, with broader...
What’s Powering the Algorithm that Gets You a Good Night’s Sleep?
NovaResp Technologies has developed an AI‑driven algorithm that predicts obstructive sleep apnea events before they occur, allowing CPAP devices to intervene gently and avoid abrupt pressure spikes. The predictive software, trained on patient breathing patterns, completed two clinical trials and...
Vibe-Coded a Healthcare App? Here’s the Part That Actually Determines Traction
Topflight’s Vibe to Traction System offers a structured, outcome‑based pathway for healthcare app startups to convert prototypes into HIPAA‑compliant, procurement‑ready products. The service begins with a two‑to‑four‑week audit to identify compliance gaps, followed by one‑to‑two months of secure infrastructure build‑out,...
AI, VR, and the Training Gap: Why New Healthcare Tech Fails Without Workforce Readiness
Artificial intelligence and virtual reality are poised to transform healthcare education, yet adoption rates remain sluggish. The article argues that the primary barrier is workforce readiness, especially among nurse educators who control training decisions. Without intentional change management, leadership support,...
The CorCMR Trial
The CorCMR Trial, discussed by Colin Berry and C. Michael Gibson, investigates the utility of stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for patients presenting with angina but no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). The study compares stress CMR‑derived perfusion data...
Canada’s Able Innovations Deploys Robotic System That Transfers Patients Between Beds at US Hospital
Able Innovations has installed its ALTA Platform robotic patient‑transfer system at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, marking the first U.S. deployment of the technology. The system automates lateral moves between beds, imaging tables, stretchers and operating‑room tables, allowing a single...
Your Health System Was Not Built for You
A federal research team found that AI diagnostic tools are being applied to patients they were never designed for, often scoring cases before a doctor even enters the room. The study labeled the resulting errors as “catastrophic,” especially for patients...
NHS Tops Public Trust Rankings for AI Use
New Appian research shows the NHS is the most trusted UK public‑sector organization for responsible AI use. Sixty‑three percent of citizens trust the NHS with AI, outpacing banks (55%), retailers (60%) and technology firms (54%). Despite this confidence, only 6%...
Inside CMR Surgical’s Big Pivot Before US Robot Launch
CMR Surgical’s new CEO, Massimiliano Colella, halted the planned U.S. debut of the first‑generation Versius robot, opting to wait for the upgraded Versius Plus platform. The second‑generation system secured FDA clearance for gallbladder‑removal surgery and is slated for a soft launch later...
From Analogue to Digital: How Innovators Are Supporting Health Tech Talent
The UK’s 10‑Year Health Plan calls for a shift from analogue to digital, prompting a race to upskill the NHS workforce. Alumni of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator are leading the effort through three initiatives: Flok Health’s £17.2 million AI scholarship programme, Megi...
VitalHub UK and CEMBooks Announce Partnership
VitalHub UK and CEMBooks have formed a partnership to deliver complementary digital tools for NHS operational insight and situational awareness. The collaboration combines VitalHub’s SHREWD system‑level platform with CEMBooks’ department‑focused management suite, allowing structured local capture alongside system‑wide oversight. Both...
Muse Athena Promises Brain‑Synced Sleep and Mental Fitness
When, almost a decade ago, I first used the Muse headband to meditate, I liked the idea, and I had no doubt that the device could deliver what the company said it could, but I had a mixed experience meditating...
Which Is The Best AI For Medical Questions? Here’s The Winner
A Stanford‑Harvard NOHARM study evaluated 31 AI systems on 100 real‑world physician consult cases, finding that AMBOSS LiSA 1.0 topped the leaderboard with a 62.3% match to expert‑approved actions. While the leading models outperformed board‑certified internists by over 15 points, all AIs...
AI Flags Alzheimer’s Risk Two Years Before Diagnosis
Earlier diagnosis can change the trajectory of Alzheimer’s. Yet thousands of people in the UK still live with dementia for years before receiving a formal diagnosis. The signals are often already present in clinical records, they are simply fragmented across...
Vocxi Health and Forj Medical Partner to Miniaturise MyBreathPrint Device
Vocxi Health has teamed with Forj Medical to shrink its MyBreathPrint breath‑analysis system from a tabletop prototype to a handheld device the size of a deck of cards. The platform leverages graphene‑based nano sensors and AI‑driven algorithms to detect disease‑linked...
Medtronic, GE HealthCare Expand Patient Monitoring Alliance
Medtronic and GE HealthCare have broadened a multi‑year partnership to embed Medtronic’s pulse oximetry, brain monitoring, capnography and regional oximetry technologies across GE’s bedside, telemetry and ambulatory monitoring platforms. The agreement accelerates integration of next‑generation Nellcor pulse oximetry and BIS...
UK Puts £50m Behind Expanded Clinical Trials Drive
The UK government announced nearly £48 million in equipment funding to accelerate commercial clinical trials across the NHS. The money will equip 51 NHS trusts and 79 primary‑care organisations with diagnostic tools, scanners and mobile research vans, with 60 % directed to...
The Future of Digital Care: The Trends We’re Likely to See in Health Technology in 2026
The UK health‑care sector is rapidly replacing analogue telecare with cloud‑based, data‑driven platforms. In 2026, digital governance, AI‑powered predictive analytics and real‑time monitoring will become core to care delivery. Providers adopting these tools can spot early signs of decline, allocate...
Highland Launches Elevate – Bringing Health Tech Direct to the NHS
Highland has launched Elevate, a health‑tech event series that brings technology suppliers directly into NHS organisations for a single‑day, whole‑organisation showcase. The inaugural event at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton in October 2025 attracted 500 staff—from the chief executive...
Harrison.ai Continues to Grow Open Platform Ecosystem, Welcomes Four New AI Partners
Harrison.ai announced that four AI companies—AIRAmed, Koios Medical, Lunit and Nanox AI—are joining its Open Platform, expanding the catalog of imaging solutions across X‑ray, CT, MRI, mammography and ultrasound. The platform maintains a vendor‑neutral, zero‑mark‑up model, allowing healthcare organizations to...
Sequana Medical Reports Strong U.S. Progress of Alfapump System
Sequana Medical reported that five leading U.S. hospitals have implanted its alfapump System since its Q4 2025 launch, including Mount Sinai, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth Hitchcock, and University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. The company is actively pursuing approvals to expand...
Digital Tourniquets Could Soon Become First‑aid Essentials
Maybe it's not new, but that's the first time I saw a digital tourniquet. It is designed to help anyone quickly stop the bleeding. No training required. Just tighten, press, and save a life. This is the line companies like XMetix...
Evo 2 Open‑Source Tool Predicts Non‑Coding Pathogenicity
It got me at "across all domains of life" Predicting pathogenicity of non-coding regions, produces sequences at genome scale, and much more Evo 2, open-source, @Nature today @arcinstitute @pdhsu @BrianHie https://t.co/9CZWmPFhjd
News in Brief: Robotic Surgery Milestone at North Bristol, AI and RPA at Midlands Partnership, AI-Assisted Echocardiography in Cheshire and...
North Bristol NHS Trust performed its 10,000th robotic-assisted surgery, underscoring a decade of minimally invasive growth across multiple specialties. Meanwhile, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust expanded its 360° virtual tour to a full‑hospital map covering 313,585 square feet, helping...
Batch Effects Misclassified 162 Patients, Causing Unnecessary Chemo
Batch effects once caused 162 patients to be misclassified. 28 of them received incorrect or unnecessary chemotherapy. The culprit? Contaminated RNA extraction that introduced technical artifacts into the data. https://t.co/WBBFKgvzVC
CognomIQ Launches Semantic Data OS for Healthcare AI
Healthcare AI ≠ just LLMs. CognomIQ unveils a semantic data operating system at ViVE 2026. One platform. End-to-end. From #ViVE2026 👇 https://t.co/HatKWPoOWo
Building Support Systems for Digital Health Innovators
Digital health innovators require structured support systems to move from concept to clinical impact. The article outlines how regulatory navigation, technical mentorship, education, and institutional ecosystems collectively reduce risk and accelerate product readiness. Early integration of quality, compliance, and clinician...
Future Cancer Blood Tests May Accurately Screen High‑Risk Groups
Cancer blood tests for screening? Not the way they've been studied to date (age 50+) A new feature @Nature “I’m confident we’re going to see more accurate tests going forward. In high-risk groups, such as those with a genetic predisposition,...
MIT Develops Biodegradable “Smart Pill” To Track Medication Adherence
MIT engineers have unveiled SAFARI, a biodegradable ingestible sensor that confirms pill ingestion using a bioresorbable Faraday cage and RFID tag. The device activates once the cage dissolves in the gastrointestinal tract and transmits a signal within about ten minutes....
Is Unified Communications Failing Healthcare Delivery?
Healthcare providers have poured resources into unified communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, yet the majority of frontline clinicians remain underserved by devices that cannot survive rigorous hygiene protocols or unreliable wireless coverage. While administrative staff benefit from modern UC...
Personalized, Measurable, Flexible: The Next Generation of Digital Health Networks
Employers have layered dozens of digital health point solutions, creating a fragmented benefits landscape that confuses employees and burdens HR teams. Kris Heinzen argues that true value emerges when these tools are woven into a unified network that prioritizes personalization,...
Company Seeks to Become a ‘Leader in Interventional Radiology’ with Recent Acquisition
Quantum Surgical, a French robotics and AI specialist, has acquired Miami‑based NeuWave Medical from Johnson & Johnson, creating the Precision IO Group. The combined entity merges Quantum’s Epione platform for robotic‑assisted tumor ablation with NeuWave’s market‑leading microwave ablation devices used...
Whole-Genome Sequencing Meets Real-World Outcomes: What 1,364 Breast Cancer Genomes Reveal About Treatment Response
A new Nature study sequenced the whole genomes of 1,364 breast cancers and linked the data to transcriptomics and real‑world treatment outcomes. The analysis showed that genome‑wide signatures such as homologous recombination deficiency, intratumoral heterogeneity, and copy‑number instability correlate with...
Mobile Skin Scans Hit Regional Aussies in New Campaign for Westfund and the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation via ABEL
ABEL, Westfund Health Insurance, and the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation have launched a national campaign offering free 3D mobile skin scans in regional Australia. The initiative brings world‑first 3D scanning technology directly to communities, removing cost and access barriers. Using...
Device Captures Brain Waves in Human‑Like Mini Brains
New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development by @ShellyFan https://t.co/oMMhx9ux8Q https://t.co/6321RBopxf
Prediabetes or Diabetes Found in 1 in 3 Patients During Dental Appointment
King's College London researchers found that a chair‑side HbA1c finger‑prick test identified pre‑diabetes or diabetes in more than one‑third of dental patients without prior diagnosis. The study of 911 NHS patients linked higher HbA1c levels to greater severity of gum...
Early Research Shows New Blood Test Can Help Predict Testicular Cancer Recurrence
Early-stage testicular cancer patients could soon benefit from a blood‑based assay that detects microscopic disease after orchiectomy. The CLIMATE study, led by WEHI and ANZUP, identified the microRNA marker miR‑371 as a reliable predictor of relapse, which occurs in roughly...
Alifor Launches Partnership with Piat, Study in Nigeria
Alifor announced a strategic partnership with Piat Public Health to embed implementation science into its AI‑driven clinical workflow platform. The collaboration will launch a six‑month study at General Hospital Lagos’ trauma centre, evaluating whether the system improves documentation, triage consistency,...
Novari Referral Tech Deployed at Niagara Health
Novari Health, a VitalHub company, is rolling out its Medical Imaging Requisition Management (MIRM) and eRequest referral platforms across all Niagara Health sites. The deployment adds an AI‑driven Document AI layer that auto‑populates data, detects multiple referrals, and verifies patient...
Montreal Heart Launches Simulation Centre
The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has opened the Centre for Advanced Simulation in Heart Valve Therapy, the first high‑fidelity valve simulation centre in the Americas. Acquired from Simulands, the platform supports training across transcatheter, repair and emerging minimally invasive procedures....
CHEO’s ThinkRare Algorithm Goes National
The CHEO Research Institute’s pediatric AI tool, ThinkRare, is moving beyond its home site to McMaster Children’s Hospital, Alberta Children’s Hospital and Stollery Children’s Hospital, marking one of Canada’s first national deployments of a real‑time, clinically embedded AI algorithm. ThinkRare...
Oren Nissim, Brook-Ai – Figuring Out RPM
Brook.ai, led by CEO Oren Nissim, is scaling its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform to cut hospital readmissions and improve care plan adherence. The company reports over 50% of its hypertension cohort achieving control within ten weeks and a roughly...
The Philippines: Digital Platform Boosts National Health Systems
SeeYouDoc, a Filipino health‑tech startup founded in 2018, has become a leading digital healthcare platform linking patients, clinicians, hospitals and local government units via web and mobile apps. The solution delivers telemedicine, digital prescriptions, electronic health records, appointment scheduling and...
New Zealand: Expanding AI Tools Across Healthcare
New Zealand has rolled out an artificial‑intelligence scribe tool across every emergency department, giving more than 1,250 clinicians automated note‑taking support. The pilot showed doctors could see an extra patient per shift, and post‑deployment surveys reported 80% of staff noting productivity...