Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”.
👇 News
🤝 North Bristol NHS Trust has become the first European reference site for Fujifilm Healthcare Europe’s Synapse Pathology and Pathology Gateway systems. The agreement builds on an existing partnership and will see the trust showcase the use of Fujifilm’s digital pathology tools in clinical practice. Pathology underpins 95% of NHS clinical pathways and is involved in 70% of all diagnoses.
👩🏾🎓 Applications are now open for a new round of government fellowships aimed at strengthening the UK’s tech ecosystem. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Fellowship aims to bring 25 tech experts and scientists into public service. Fellows will have the opportunity to complete 12-month, part-time secondments in fields such as AI, cyber security, quantum technologies and digital inclusion.
🏆 Sky Medical Technology has received the King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for its geko device, a non-invasive therapy designed to accelerate chronic wound healing. The device, which launched in the UK in February 2024, is clinically proven to more than double healing rates and is being adopted across NHS trusts and international health systems. The award recognises Sky Medical as one of 197 UK businesses demonstrating outstanding innovation and performance.
🧠 Students at Stoke-on-Trent College have teamed up with software company Bitjam to design an anxiety management app for young people. The project, which lasted four weeks, saw IT, health and social care and science students work in groups to develop the app, which includes an emotion tracker and was built using Figma app building software. The project was put together to enhance students’ career prospects when looking for careers in health and social care, science and IT.
📲 St Oswald’s Hospice has integrated its telephony system into Britannic’s Microsoft Direct Routing solution, after its 20-year-old legacy on-premise contract came to an end. The charity wanted to modernise its telephony and use Microsoft Teams for unified communications. The new contract is aimed at providing the hospice with a more resilient, secure and future-proof infrastructure.
❓Did you know?
Danish health tech company Teton has created the first real-time 3D “digital twin” of a hospital room using Denmark’s national supercomputer, Gefion.
The technology is already being used in Danish hospitals and has reduced night shift workloads for nurses by up to 25%. It works by generating detailed 3D models that monitor how patients move, breathe and sleep, helping staff spot health risks earlier and spend less time on paperwork.
Teton developed the system using synthetic data and NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, enabling a level of precision and speed not possible with real-world data alone.
📖 What we’re reading
An analysis by Check Point Research , published on 7 April 2025, warns that cyber attacks on healthcare systems are becoming a public health crisis in their own right.
Published 7 April 2025 for World Health Day, the report notes that healthcare remains one of the most-targeted sectors globally, with organisations facing an average of more than 2,300 attempted attacks per week – a 39% increase compared to 2024. In North America, that figure has risen by 57% year on year. Attacks are frequently linked to common vulnerabilities such as phishing and outdated systems, rather than sophisticated exploits, the report says.
The report also highlights rising threats to connected medical devices, with over 1,000 vulnerabilities reported in 2023 alone. Check Point notes that few medical device manufacturers have disclosure protocols in place, which limits visibility and slows response efforts.
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