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Heart Monitor Breach Response Sets a Benchmark for NHS Supplier Assurance
On 8 June, iRhythm Technologies detected unauthorised access to business applications hosted by a third party. Within two days the company had told US securities regulators what it knew, including that a threat actor was demanding payment in return for silence. Few organisations manage that pace of candour while an investigation is still under way, and fewer still keep their clinical operations running throughout. The facts are uncomfortable. Data was downloaded between 3 and
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Epic Puts Prescription Prices Where Clinicians Already Look
A patient leaves a consulting room with a prescription and a small sense of relief. Twenty minutes later, at the pharmacy counter, the relief goes. The price is higher than expected, the insurer's share is smaller than hoped, and the medicine goes back on the shelf. In the United States this happens often enough to count as a pattern, with more than four in ten adults saying cost has led them to take medicines other than as prescribed. Epic, the electronic health record suppl
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Berkshire Healthcare Trust Seeks Suppliers for Automated Triage of Musculoskeletal Referrals
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has asked suppliers to come forward to discuss a digital clinical triage service for musculoskeletal conditions.
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Seven UK Health Tech Start-Ups Win Up to £70,000 in Incubator Support
The DTC Health programme, overseen by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, is backing medical devices and AI-based diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
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Utah Launches Experimental AI Healthcare Pilots Allowing Independent AI Prescriptions
State regulatory sandbox permits AI software to prescribe acne treatments without immediate doctor oversight, alongside new digital health initiatives for physical therapy and prescription refills
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Clinician Networks Are Becoming Health Data Infrastructure
Docquity's expansion into Japan shows how point-of-care AI turns physician questions into a strategic asset, and why the NHS has yet to decide who should hold that knowledge.
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From GP Surgeries to Hospital Wards: The Unseen Test for DYAD and NHS AI
DYAD's $10 million raise and its move into secondary and mental health care show where the NHS's AI ambitions will be settled: in the routine handling of patient letters
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Ambient Scribes Are Becoming Infrastructure, and the NHS Is Still Buying Them Like Pilots
Heidi's $340 million raise and Asia-Pacific push show what a scaled clinical AI supplier looks like. Britain's health service has yet to decide how it will deal with one.
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Burnham Pledges to Put AI Safety at Heart of UK's 2027 G20 Presidency
Prime Minister uses UN address to call for shared international principles on AI development, alongside new defence partnership with US
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Palantir Appoints Tom Watson as UK Senior Vice President Amid NHS Contract Scrutiny
Palantir Appoints Tom Watson as UK Senior Vice President Amid NHS Contract Scrutiny
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Durham Spinout Magnitude Biosciences Raises £1.3m to Expand Drug Discovery Platform
Durham Spinout Magnitude Biosciences Raises £1.3m to Expand Drug Discovery Platform
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NHS Faces First Clinical Negligence Claims Over Artificial Intelligence Integration
NHS Faces First Clinical Negligence Claims Over Artificial Intelligence Integration
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Phased Licensing Proposed to Safely Integrate AI into Healthcare
Phased Licensing Proposed to Safely Integrate AI into Healthcare
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Digital Overhaul Charts Course for NHS Trusts Through 2031
Digital Overhaul Charts Course for NHS Trusts Through 2031
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Biotech and Software Firms Expand Global Partnership to Accelerate Antibody Research
Biotech and Software Firms Expand Global Partnership to Accelerate Antibody Research
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The Clifford Resignation Is a Warning for Health Data Governance
A quiet exit from a public research agency exposes a gap the NHS cannot afford to ignore
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A Warning Letter and a Health Service Running Old Locks
What a hundred tech firms admitting AI has already breached their own defences should mean for the NHS.
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The Chipmaker's Golden Age and the NHS's Narrower Arithmetic
Nvidia's record quarter shows how far the health service's AI ambitions now depend on infrastructure it neither owns nor controls.
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Britain's Two Data Doctrines: What a Fast Defence Pact With Ukraine Says About a Slower Reckoning Inside the NHS
Years of reluctance over Palantir's hold on NHS patient records coexist oddly with a quick deal to exchange UK expertise for Ukraine's military sensor data.
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The Hidden Bedrock of NHS AI
How Scotland’s regional data centres prioritize American cloud giants over public healthcare infrastructure.
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