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News•Feb 28, 2026
The Strategic Consolidation of Patient Engagement: Assessing the Viability of the Third Party Portal Market Amidst the Expansion of the...
The NHS is consolidating patient engagement by expanding the NHS App as a national digital front door, aiming for 95% of appointment bookings by 2028 and targeting £11 million in annual savings from phasing out third‑party patient portals. The Wayfinder programme will integrate hospital EPR systems directly into the app using FHIR R4 standards, reducing reliance on intermediary platforms. Suppliers such as DrDoctor, Patients Know Best and Zesty are shifting toward specialised clinical pathways, mental‑health services and advanced data orchestration to stay relevant. The broader digital transformation is tied to a £17 billion productivity drive and the upcoming "NHS Online" vision.
By healthcare.digital
News•Feb 28, 2026
The Convergence of Clinical Intelligence and Patient Outreach: Analysis of OpenEvidence’s AI Integrated Telehealth Ecosystem
OpenEvidence launched its AI‑Integrated Doctor Dialer™, a HIPAA‑secure app that merges voice, messaging, fax and voicemail with real‑time clinical decision support powered by a medical‑specific large language model. The platform embeds deterministic, citation‑backed recommendations directly into patient communications, eliminating the...
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News•Feb 27, 2026
This Week in European MedTech and HealthTech: 27th February 2026
Europe’s MedTech landscape this week is defined by heightened public funding, regulatory simplification, and a selective capital shift toward high‑impact digital health. Ireland unveiled a €34.3 m ARC Hub, while Horizon Europe health calls target AI‑driven projects such as digital‑mental‑health and...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Every Cure and Computational Pharmacophenomics: A New Field of Medicine
The nonprofit Every Cure is launching computational pharmacophenomics, an AI‑driven approach that systematically evaluates all 4,000 FDA‑approved drugs for the 14,000 diseases lacking treatments. Its MATRIX platform integrates massive biomedical knowledge graphs, generates graph embeddings, and ranks 75 million drug‑disease pairs,...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Agentic Siri From Apple Benefits for Healthcare Technology
Apple’s new Apple Intelligence platform transforms Siri into an autonomous, agentic health assistant that blends on‑device generative models with Private Cloud Compute. The system can traverse HealthKit, Mail, and other apps to execute multi‑step clinical tasks, from real‑time vitals monitoring...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
The German Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) at Seven Years: Review of the DiGA Ecosystem and Its Impact on European Health...
Seven years after Germany’s Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) introduced the world’s first reimbursement pathway for digital health apps, the DiGA ecosystem has matured from speculative beginnings to a €234 million market serving nearly one million prescriptions. The fast‑track approval process accelerated...
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