This year’s Digital Health Rewired was bigger, bolder, and more thought-provoking than ever—and Answer Digital and Interneuron were proud to play a part. With our largest presence to date and three of our team presenting on stage, we took to the floor not only to share our latest innovations in AI, data, genomic medicine digitisation and integrated care, but to listen, learn, and reflect on the real challenges facing the NHS right now.

Our headline takeaway? Direction. Or, more specifically, the uncertainty of it. With the closure of NHS England looming, a number of talks—official and unofficial—turned toward a shared question: What now? The clear message from the show floor was that secondary care remains a central focus in leadership conversations, but perhaps to the detriment of wider system cohesion.

As many speakers acknowledged, AI is no longer a distant promise, but a present reality, and yet its deployment is patchy at best. The buzz around ambient AI was impossible to ignore, with discussions ranging from ethical considerations to the risk of overhyping solutions that aren’t yet scalable. However it was very noticeable that there were no bespoke ambient scribes at Rewired 2024, this year there were 5+ who had invested big in stands and marketing at the event. The consensus seems to be that there’s huge potential, but we need to move from pilots to platforms, from experiments to embedded capability.

That’s where our work on Answer AI and our partnership with RAIQC and Oxford University Hospitals comes in. These tools are designed to support AI deployment at scale, giving Trusts the infrastructure to select, test, implement and continuously monitor models in a safe, integrated way—without locking themselves into siloed or vendor-specific pathways. It was fantastic to see so many visitors excited by the real-world potential of these platforms, particularly in radiology and diagnostics, where the staffing pressures are most acute.

Despite structural uncertainty, Rewired 2025 had an optimistic undercurrent. With the shared belief that innovation will continue, driven not by top-down mandates, but by frontline energy, clinical engagement, and digital teams rolling up their sleeves to do the work.

As we reflect on the event, it’s clear that AI’s role in secondary care will only continue to grow, but its true potential can only be realised if the NHS and its partners commit to building interoperable, efficient, and user-centric systems. We’re excited to be part of this journey, working alongside organisations like RAIQC to push the boundaries of AI and create smarter, more connected healthcare systems.

Rewired 2025 reaffirmed the opportunities and challenges facing the digital healthcare industry, and we’re proud to be at the forefront of this transformation. Here’s to a future where AI doesn’t just support healthcare, it redefines it.

To everyone we spoke to over the two days—thank you. Let’s keep the conversation going.