Technology

The NHS App's new AI triage tool has produced strong pilot results in one Wealden practice. Turning that into a service for every patient in England raises harder questions about evidence, regulation and who answers for the outcome.

As artificial intelligence infrastructure is increasingly financed through borrowing rather than earnings, the financial durability of suppliers embedded in national health data systems deserves closer scrutiny than it has received.

A worldwide survey of hospital and health system executives finds automation has overtaken every rival technology priority, a trend already visible in the NHS's rollout of ambient voice tools and its struggle to move beyond pilot schemes.

The new case for backing domestic enterprise carries an uncomfortable lesson for how the health service buys its technology.

A Silicon Valley funding round exposes a verification gap the NHS cannot afford to ignore.

A £500m expansion of the Growth Guarantee Scheme addresses the financing gap facing SMEs, but for digital health firms selling into the NHS, capital was never the obstacle blocking growth.

Cambridge Innovation Capital's appointment of Ilana Wisby to translate deep tech research into companies exposes a translation problem the NHS has never solved.

As data centre connection requests outstrip the nation's entire peak electricity capacity, experts warn of a 15-year backlog threatening the UK's tech ambitions.