Your morning abstract of digital well being information, info and occasions to find out about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
📝 Norfolk and Waveney NHS Built-in Care Board (ICB) has awarded a £1.2 million contract to Prescribing Providers to supply digital instruments for inhabitants well being administration and danger stratification. The contract runs till September 2027 and can assist the ICB’s technique to raised goal care by utilizing information to establish well being dangers and plan interventions. The service will embody tailor-made information evaluation and digital platforms designed to assist NHS groups and companions entry and act on inhabitants well being insights.
📷 Boots has launched an AI-powered device that may display for greater than 70 pores and skin situations. The Boots On-line Physician SmartSkin Checker permits customers to add a photograph of their pores and skin concern. The AI device then analyses the picture and returns as much as 5 attainable situations, equivalent to pimples, eczema, rosacea, impetigo and fungal infections. Based on Boots, there’s a 95% probability that one of many 5 outcomes returned by the SmartSkin Checker is the right situation. Whereas it’s not designed as a diagnostic device, SmartSkin Checker can present prospects with a sign and advise them on subsequent steps, Boots mentioned.
🩸 A smartphone app that helps folks with sort 1 diabetes routinely management their insulin is now accessible on iPhones within the UK. Mylife CamAPS FX connects to a suitable insulin pump and glucose sensor to trace blood sugar ranges and alter insulin supply all through the day. Developed by UK-based firm CamDiab and Swiss medical machine agency Ypsomed, the app is designed to scale back the necessity for handbook injections and make managing diabetes easier and extra discreet.
🧑🏾💻 DementiaNet has launched a web-based device providing personalised steerage and assist to folks dwelling with dementia and those that take care of them. The platform is designed round simplicity and accessibility, developed utilizing lived expertise and in depth analysis. A built-in search device connects customers with related actions of their native space, which dementia assist teams can use so as to add their occasion or gathering to. It additionally provides a safe digital vault, downloadable planning instruments and a step-by-step dashboard to assist folks sort out care plans and different duties.
🚺 An AI-enabled ladies’s well being service is being trialled amongst workers at Man’s and St Thomas’ NHS Basis Belief. Developed in partnership with digital well being firm Aneira Well being, the service provides personalised, handy care designed to suit round customers’ lives and enhance entry to assist for girls working in healthcare. The pilot is at the moment open to a small cohort of the belief’s workers, with the goal of increasing the initiative based mostly on the outcomes.
❓Do you know?
Medical doctors, nurses and allied well being professionals earn greater than science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) graduates one yr after ending college, new Well being Basis evaluation finds. Nonetheless, whereas docs retain this earnings benefit over time, nurses’ salaries develop rather more slowly.
Information from the Well being Basis reveals that, 5 years post-graduation, nurses fall behind each STEM and enterprise graduates by way of wage development, regardless of having greater employment charges at one, three and 5 years post-graduation.
📖 What we’re studying
In a weblog for NHS Suppliers, Chris Fleming, well being and care lead at Public Digital, displays on how digital instruments may assist extra proactive and preventative healthcare.
‘The digital street to preventative care‘, revealed on 20 Might 2025, follows a roundtable dialogue hosted by NHS Suppliers that introduced collectively nationwide, system and belief leaders to discover the position of digital instruments in prevention.
The NHS App was highlighted as a key platform with the potential to assist this shift, offered it avoids turning into overloaded or complicated for customers. Individuals additionally emphasised the necessity for digital instruments to maneuver past one-off transactions and assist extra personalised, steady care journeys.
The dialogue underscored that information infrastructure and knowledge governance stay vital enablers, and that higher service design facilitated by user-led options and clearer communication may also help drive behavioural change.
Individuals agreed that expertise IT platforms will solely realise their full potential if they are often tailored to native wants and are designed with enter from frontline workers.
🚨 Upcoming occasions
16–19 June, Amsterdam — HLTH Europe 2025
