Across September 2026, healthcare technology developments spanned AI-enabled clinical care, digital patient communications, connected imaging, workforce technology and NHS technology procurement.
Among the announcements were new AI-supported services for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and primary care, a new approach to sharing point-of-care ultrasound scans, and digital tools aimed at improving patient communications, staffing and healthcare administration.
AI and digital transformation platforms
Aide Health launches AI Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) programme: Aide Health has launched a six-month programme across six primary care networks in North West London to provide people with COPD with AI-powered support between appointments.
The app provides medication reminders, symptom tracking and condition-specific information, while giving clinical teams greater insight into patients’ symptoms and medication use.
DYAD raises $10m for healthcare AI expansion: UK healthcare AI company DYAD has raised $10m in a Series A funding round led by Sangha Capital to expand its technology across primary and secondary care.
Its GENIE platform converts unstructured clinical documents into structured data, with its BetterLetter product already used by more than 200 GP surgeries.
Lifebit launches AI Scientist Studio: Lifebit has launched AI Scientist Studio, enabling researchers to build and deploy AI agents within secure Federated Trusted Research Environments.
The platform is designed to allow frontier AI models to analyse governed health and genomic data without patient-level data leaving its source environment.
Tandem Health raises $100m for European healthcare AI: Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B funding round led by EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund to expand its AI technology across European healthcare.
The company’s AI Medical Assistant supports clinicians with patient summaries, clinical decision support, documentation and coding.
InTouchNow raises £2.3m for NHS primary care AI: UK AI company InTouchNow has raised £2.3m in seed funding to expand its AI voice agent across NHS general practice.
The technology handles patient calls, including appointment booking and routine administrative tasks, and is already being used by more than 150 practices.
Imperial and Hillingdon launch AI-powered patient service centre: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have launched a digitally enabled Patient Service Centre using Netcall technology to bring together phone, email, web chat and messaging.
AI tools support staff with patient queries, while automated services handle routine requests and help reduce administrative workload.
Liverpool Women’s cuts missed appointments with accessible digital communications: Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has introduced multilingual and accessible patient communications using Netcall’s Patient Hub, helping patients receive translated letters and texts and access braille and large-print communications.
The Trust said the programme has reduced missed appointments by an average of 18%, rising to 32% in some pathways, while cutting printing and postage costs by 68%.
Digital patient care and communications
FPT secures place on G-Cloud 15: FPT has secured a place on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 framework, allowing NHS trusts and other public-sector organisations to procure six of its cloud support services.
Its offering includes application management, cloud software engineering, demand forecasting and legacy system modernisation.
Liverpool Women’s introduces multilingual patient communications: Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has introduced multilingual and accessible digital patient communications using Netcall’s Patient Hub platform.
The Trust said the programme has reduced missed appointments by an average of 18%, rising to 32% in some pathways.
Tandem Health adds BNF content to clinical AI: Tandem Health has partnered with Pharmaceutical Press and the BNF Partnership to make BNF and BNF for Children content available through its regulated Clinical Decision Support tool.
The platform provides UK clinicians with source-linked medicines information during patient consultations.
Insource appoints Chief Commercial Officer: NHS data specialist Insource has appointed Jason Harries as CCO as it shifts its focus from data infrastructure towards operational outcomes for NHS organisations.
Its Unified Data Layer is already in use across more than 22 NHS trusts and health boards.
Dedalus launches ORBIS PAS: Dedalus has launched its next-generation ORBIS patient administration system in the UK and Ireland, designed to bring administrative and clinical workflows closer together.
The platform includes AI-powered referral management and tools to help identify priority patients, long waiters and potential outpatient appointment DNAs.
Clinical technology and patient safety
Portsmouth enables real-time sharing of point-of-care scans: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has introduced a system allowing ultrasound images captured in its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to be automatically added to patients’ electronic records and shared with specialists.
Developed with Sectra, the system replaces manual image-transfer processes and is set to expand to point-of-care scanners in emergency and intensive care settings.
Serve First launches AI hygiene monitoring: Serve First has launched Vision, an AI-powered system that analyses existing camera feeds to provide data on hand hygiene, bay cleaning and access to controlled areas.
The system processes footage locally and sends only non-identifying operational data outside the healthcare setting.
Intuitive advances da Vinci 5 in Europe: Intuitive has received CE mark approval for Force Feedback instruments for its da Vinci 5 robotic surgical system and announced more than 100 further system updates.
The Force Feedback technology allows surgeons to receive information on the forces being applied to tissue during surgery.
Patchwork Health AI rostering cuts temporary staffing spend: Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust has reported a 50% reduction in monthly temporary staffing spend in paediatrics after introducing Patchwork Health’s preference-based rostering technology.
The system uses clinicians’ shift preferences alongside staffing requirements to generate rosters designed to reduce vacancies and improve workforce flexibility.
Young Lives vs Cancer partners with Ditto: Young Lives vs Cancer is rolling out Ditto’s AI-powered app to families affected by childhood cancer across centres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Cambridge and Oxford.
The app turns recorded medical consultations into written summaries that families can review and share with relatives and carers.
iAM Compliant launches digital pupil healthcare records: iAM Compliant has launched iAM Medical, a digital feature designed to help schools and multi-academy trusts manage pupil medical conditions, medication and healthcare documents.
The system provides a central health record alongside medication administration records, expiry alerts and healthcare compliance monitoring.
