Your morning abstract of digital well being information, data and occasions to find out about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
🧗♀️Glasgow-founded digital well being firm Phlo has simply been named the HealthTechX Development Award 2025 winner after reporting 500% year-on-year income progress and shelling out greater than 200,000 weight-loss prescriptions since January. The corporate says its progress was pushed by the speedy adoption of its digital well being platform, Phlo Clinic, which gives digital consultations and therapy pathways for weight administration and preventive well being.
🏠Digital-first house healthcare supplier Cera has introduced it has delivered 100 million affected person house visits because it launched 9 years in the past. That is equal to greater than 5,700 years of steady face-to-face care time. When it comes to quantity, it’s corresponding to visiting each house within the UK 4 occasions, or each individual aged 65+ ten occasions over.
👩💻 Life Analytics has introduced the launch of Facial Dynamics, a digital platform designed to rework facial rehabilitation by way of augmented actuality and distant monitoring. Developed in collaboration with clinicians and teachers throughout the UK, Facial Dynamics offers stroke and tremor sufferers with entry to neurorehabilitation from their house through a smartphone or pill.
📸 Hyland and Tribun Well being have joined forces to advance pathology workflows by integrating Tribun Well being’s platform with Hyland’s enterprise imaging options. The partnership goals to AI and digital expertise on the core of diagnostics to allow pathologists to work quicker and smarter.
❓ Do you know that?
Well being expertise suppliers Everon Group and Howz have launched a white paper revealing that disrupted sleep is strongly correlated with elevated fall threat, lowered resilience and wider deterioration in wellbeing.
The report, ‘Impartial Dwelling, Clever Perception: The Function of Evercare within the Subsequent Era of TECS‘, revealed on 4 December, highlights how wearable expertise and machine studying analytics can remodel reactive telecare right into a proactive, preventative mannequin.
The research demonstrates that steady monitoring of routines, mobility and sleep patterns can present early warning indicators of well being or wellbeing decline, permitting well timed intervention earlier than incidents happen.
📖 What we’re studying
A Nuffield Belief report, revealed on 3 December, reveals an increase in GPs utilizing AI instruments corresponding to ChatGPT to supply appointment summaries and help with prognosis
The survey of two,108 GPs revealed that 28% use AI instruments, with 13% utilizing instruments offered by their observe, 11% utilizing instruments they’ve obtained independently, and 4% utilizing a mixture of each.
Researchers additionally discovered important variation in AI adoption amongst GPs throughout totally different demographic teams. Male GPs have been considerably extra probably to make use of AI than feminine GPs, at 33% and 25% respectively, whereas these working in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas have been much less probably to make use of AI.
Moreover, GPs in England have been extra probably to make use of AI than these in Scotland and Northern Eire.
Of those that use AI, greater than half (57%) have been utilizing AI instruments for medical documentation and be aware taking. Round 4 out of 10 GPs use AI instruments for skilled improvement (45%) and administrative duties (44%), however fewer use AI instruments to assist medical decision-making (28%)
🚨 Upcoming occasions
16 January 2026, 12.30-1.30pm, On-line – Digital Instruments Confirmed to Shift to Wellness and Prevention
