Welcome to your daily digital health briefing!
👇 News
🏆 Feedback Medical Limited has won the Gold Award for Digital Solution for Rural Healthcare at the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Council of India’s (IHW) Digital Health Awards 2024 for its Bleepa solution, which supports efficient tuberculosis screening in rural areas.
🤖 Intuitive Surgical CEO Gary Guthart has disclosed plans for a fifth-generation da Vinci robot and the company’s application for FDA clearance.
🧠 Smile App, the UK’s very first mental health app for those with long-term physical health conditions, has just launched to provide expert-led practical support and daily tools.
📈 Visits to the NHS webpage on melanoma skin cancer saw a 741% increase following the recent announcement from the Duchess of York about her diagnosis.
💉 Digital healthcare platform PrivateDoc has been named among a select group of UK providers of Mounjaro – the weight loss medication that has launched in the UK today.
❓ Did you know that?
There are more nurses and midwives working in the NHS than ever before according to new figures published last week.
📖 What we’re reading
Is Adding an AI Readout to Mammography Worth It? – More women may be getting an offer to add an AI readout to their mammograms, but they’ll have to pay for it out-of-pocket — and many are wondering if it would even result in better outcomes.
🚨 This week’s events
Monday 29 January, House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee – Future cancer inquiry
Thursday 1 February, University of Oxford – Digital Care Hub, the Institute for Ethics in AI and Reuben College, Oxford, and Casson Consulting, co-host an AI roundtable event
