Digital health firm Babylon Holdings Ltd. is reportedly teetering on the edge of collapse after its merger plans with another healthcare company fell through. The United Kingdom-based company, known for its app that connects patients with doctors, has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators in...
Digital prescriptions have opened up the market for pharmacy services in the U.K. In the days of paper prescriptions, a handful of high street pharmacists dominated the market, but with the advent of electronic prescriptions and their widespread adoption by the National Health Service (NHS),...
United Kingdom officials gave a California software company access to the private personal data of millions of British residents to answer questions around COVID-19, CNBC reported. The National Health Service (NHS) provided Palantir Technologies with volumes of personal information including contact details, gender, race, occupation, health conditions,...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital costs, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice assistant Alexa will offer...
September 26, 2024
What is necessary for organizational success isn’t always easy. And as the U.K. National Health Service’s (NHS) recent 2.5 billion pound procurement request for its Digital Workplace Solutions 2 mega-framework shows, doing what’s necessary to bring critical infrastructure into the 21st century isn’t always cheap, either. But the fact remains that in today’s rapidly evolving landscape, […]
August 30, 2023
Digital health firm Babylon Holdings Ltd. is reportedly teetering on the edge of collapse after its merger plans with another healthcare company fell through. The United Kingdom-based company, known for its app that connects patients with doctors, has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators in the U.K. High Court, indicating a potential cash shortage, Bloomberg reported Wednesday […]
June 08, 2020
United Kingdom officials gave a California software company access to the private personal data of millions of British residents to answer questions around COVID-19, CNBC reported. The National Health Service (NHS)...
July 10, 2019
The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital...
