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Canary Care launches second iteration of activity monitoring system

UK-based scale-up Canary Care has released the second iteration of its intelligent activity monitoring system. Ian Burgess, the company’s Managing Director, tells us this will be the first product of this type that can integrate with energy appliances such as smart meters, and will help care providers and health researchers to improve care with the data it collects.
October 6, 2025

FREE BLOG Will AI replace doctors?

This week I attended the AI in Health Summit, an event hosted by Economist Impact at the Royal College of Physicians in London focused on the topic of how AI will impact healthcare. Of all the questions and issues discussed throughout the day, one stood out both in terms of the frequency with which it came up and the strength of feeling it elicited from speakers: whether we should expect to see doctors lose their jobs to AI.
October 2, 2025

Interview: Ranjan Singh, CEO and Co-founder, HealthHero

HealthHero is the largest telehealth provider in Europe. In the few years since being founded in 2019, it has managed to consistently grow its revenue at over 30% per annum and achieve a dominant position in four key European markets — the UK, France, Germany and Ireland, in a period when many other players trying to scale in this space have gone bust.
September 25, 2025

What Eko Health’s AI stethoscope can teach us about AI adoption in healthcare

An AI-powered digital stethoscope developed by a California-based medtech company called Eko Health has been found to detect heart conditions with significantly greater sensitivity than doctors using analogue stethoscopes in a trial with 200 UK GP practices. But the same study also found that 70% of these GP surgeries had stopped using them or were only using them infrequently a year after they were given them. In a conversation with HBI, Alfred Olivares and Nick Kovacev, who work for US technology consultancy HTEC, suggested some of the reasons for this, and the broader lessons for health tech companies trying to develop impactful AI tools.
September 19, 2025

Microsoft launches its AI scribe in the UK

Microsoft is releasing its AI scribe for clinicians, Dragon Copilot, in the UK on Thursday September 4. In a demo with HBI, Dr Simon Wallace, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Microsoft, explained why he believes the product has an edge over the numerous competitors in this space and a good shot at becoming the dominant supplier to the NHS.
September 4, 2025

Interview with Dr. Rahul Goyal (Elsevier) on AI’s impact in healthcare

Elsevier, a publishing house and provider of information and decision support tools for science and healthcare, recently published its Clinician of the Future 2025 annual insights report, which looks at the growing use of AI in healthcare and how healthcare professionals feel about it. We spoke to Dr. Rahul Goyal, Elsevier’s Practicing GP and Clinical Executive, to get his thoughts on what impact AI is having and what investors, operators and regulators need to be mindful of.
August 28, 2025

Evernow and Oura Ring partner to provide personalised menopause care

Investor interest is surging in women’s health tech, with wearables like Oura Ring and Whoop attracting hundreds of millions in funding. These devices give personalised insights into menstrual, reproductive, and menopausal health, highlighting a rapidly expanding market long overlooked by traditional healthcare.
August 20, 2025
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