Introducing the 17 Innovators Driving Healthcare Forward: Cohort Eight of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator

Today, DigitalHealth.London is proud to announce the latest 17 digital health companies selected for their flagship, award-winning Accelerator programme.

The 17 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) selected for the programme have digital solutions or services with the highest potential to meet London’s NHS and social care challenges. From apps to AI robotics, remote monitoring to diagnostics, and mental health to renal care, the solutions from Cohort Eight of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator are set to transform pathways across the sector.

The twelve-month DigitalHealth.London Accelerator empowers digital health companies with innovative products or services that have a high potential to address current NHS and social care challenges, by strengthening their commercial engagement strategies through enhanced connections, credibility, and confidence-building opportunities.

The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator is partially funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). As part of the Digital Health.London Business Support for London Project, the programme has received £1,379,257.04 from the UKSPF. It is delivered by the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London in partnership with the Office of Life Sciences, CW+, Medcity, NHS England and the Mayor of London.

DigitalHealth.London is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion as key drivers of successful innovation and transformation within the NHS. We are proud that 41 per cent of the eighth cohort are majority managed by individuals from the global majority, and 35 per cent are either female-majority-owned or have no clear ownership majority.

After another extremely competitive application process, we are excited to announce the 18 digital health companies joining our eighth DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme cohort. These proven products are ready to scale. We look forward to working with them over the next year to improve health and care.

Sara Nelson
Programme Director at DigitalHealth.London

The Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London is proud to run the award-winning DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, which is partially funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and the Office for Life Sciences. We are excited to welcome the 18 companies joining the Accelerator for Cohort Eight, and are eager to support them develop, scale and spread across the NHS and social care.

Natasha Curran
Medical Director of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London

Since 2016, the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator has supported 177 digital health companies to scale and thrive in the UK and beyond. As the UK’s leading Accelerator for track record, their alumni (including Huma, DrDoctor, Peppy Health, eConsult, AccuRx and HN) have achieved remarkable success, securing over 745 contracts, 3,706 NHS pilots and launching 88 new products in the NHS market. On average, each £1 of public investment spent on the programme generates £10.90 in economic benefit.

Companies successful in getting onto the programme have been chosen through a rigorous and highly competitive selection process, involving expert NHS and industry panel assessments, interviews, and due diligence checks.

The digital health companies selected for Cohort Eight of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator are:

• AirEmail – AirEmail is an NHS-approved and tested email management solution that revolutionises communications by intelligently prioritising patient-related emails, enhancing staff productivity to improve patient care quality and staff wellbeing.
• Avegen Health – Avegen is a purpose-led award-winning digital health company which digitises each step of outpatient clinical pathways.
• Flok Health – Flok Health’s AI Back Pain Clinic is an AI physiotherapy clinic – automating the delivery of personalised care at a population scale. Their technology is the first to achieve medical device clearance in the UK for fully automating the triage, assessment, and treatment of back pain, and we are also the only digital MSK provider with CQC approval.
• Incision Group BV – Digitised surgical preference cards to inform and align the entire surgical team resulting in more efficient, more productive and happier operating theatres.
• Iona Mind – Iona Mind offers accessible, acceptable and inclusive mental health support which is tailored to the needs of the target population.
• Megi Health UK – MEGI is leveraging AI for transformative cardiovascular care, offering continuous support and precise diagnostics in a single platform
• MyMynd – MyMynd empowers employees to take control of their own mental health and enables employers to align wellbeing efforts to the needs of their workforce.
• MyRenalCare – Improving lives at scale by transforming chronic kidney disease management.
• Neu Health – Neu Health’s innovative approach integrates a user-friendly smartphone app and a clinician dashboard with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence analytics to empower patients and optimise clinical services.
• NSU Media – NSU Media’s Welcome to Leadership on-line solution supports junior managers with the fundamentals to lead and manage their teams effectively from day one.
• NuvoAir – NuvoAir is the only home spirometry company that coaches individuals to get clinic-quality spirometry data without them attending a clinic, designed for the NHS to diagnose respiratory conditions without delay.
• PreActiv – PreActiv optimises patients before surgery using technology to create individualised and adaptive prehabilitation programmes, addressing NHS England’s perioperative guidelines.
• Pyrexia – Pyrexia develops automated HR tools tailored for the healthcare sector, utilising AI and machine learning to streamline key HR processes like staff onboarding, scheduling, and credential management.
• Smart Respiratory – Smart Respiratory has developed cost-effective sensors, a patient app, and a dashboard for clinicians – which have huge potential to address inhaler adherence, improve asthma control, reduce costs, and benefit the environment.
• TORTUS – TORTUS, founded by a collaboration of doctors, software designers, and AI specialists, is an AI-powered assistant that integrates with healthcare systems to streamline documentation and enhance clinical efficiencies.
• Visiba – Visiba Triage is an AI-enabled triage system and medical device, unique through its best-in-class safety and responsible AI infrastructure.
• YOURMeds – YOURmeds is a smart medication management system that helps people take the right medication at the right time with support from their network of family and friends.

The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme is funded by the UK Government via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). It is delivered by the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London in partnership with the Office of Life Sciences, CW+, Medicity, NHS England, the Mayor of London and the Levelling Up Fund.

For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-
shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus.