The Distilled Post AI & Healthcare Excellence Awards were created to spotlight the individuals, platforms and partnerships delivering real-world impact through artificial intelligence across healthcare and life sciences.
This year, the awards received an extraordinary calibre of entries from across the UK and international ecosystem. Submissions spanned the full breadth of applied AI, from early and accurate diagnosis, precision medicine and drug discovery, to patient support, clinical workflow optimisation, operational innovation and end-to-end care pathways. Those recognised stood out not simply for technical sophistication, but for demonstrable deployment, measurable outcomes and clear benefit to patients, clinicians and health systems.
From early detection and diagnostics to operational efficiency and patient empowerment, the 2025 awards celebrate where AI is already changing lives in practice, not in theory. The winners and highly commended organisations recognised below are not just building intelligent tools. They are reshaping how care is delivered, accessed and improved across the NHS and the wider health and life sciences landscape.
AI Solution of the Year Winner: Sanius Health
Sanius Health is recognised for its AI-powered patient monitoring platform that enables earlier clinical intervention and more proactive care. By combining patient-reported outcomes, wearable data and predictive analytics, the platform identifies deterioration before it becomes acute. This approach supports clinicians with real-time insight, reduces avoidable hospital admissions and improves quality of life for people living with chronic and rare diseases.
AI Solution of the Year Highly Commended: Visiba AI Triage
Recognised for AI-enabled triage and access solutions that support smarter patient prioritisation and demand management across healthcare services.
Best Use of AI for Diagnosis & Treatment Winner: Skin Analytics
Skin Analytics is recognised for its clinically validated AI dermatology platform supporting the early detection of skin cancer. Using deep-learning algorithms to analyse skin lesions, the technology enables rapid triage at scale. Already deployed within the NHS, it improves diagnostic capacity while helping clinicians prioritise patients most in need of urgent care.
Highly Commended for the Best Use of AI for Diagnosis & Treatment
- Brainomix: Recognised for AI imaging solutions, transforming ordinary scans into extraordinary insights, enabling precision medicine for better treatment decisions.
- First Databank (FDB): Recognised for AI-powered technologies that provide medicines decision support and drug knowledge solutions; helping healthcare organisations improve prescribing safety, reduce medication errors and support clinicians at the point of care.
- DeepHealth: AI-powered medical imaging solutions that help clinicians detect, prioritise and manage disease more accurately and efficiently across screening, diagnosis and care pathways.
Best AI-Enabled Patient Pathway Winner: Modality Partnership
Modality Partnership is the category winner for the Best AI-Enabled Patient Pathway, for its deployment of Liberate AI. Modality deployed the solution to to redesign long-term condition recall pathways at scale through AI-driven record interrogation and risk stratification. The pathway delivered an 80% patient response rate to digital reviews, a 91% reduction in manual call volumes, and a 41% reduction in unnecessary LTC appointments, enabling clinicians to prioritise patients with the greatest need. Integrated directly into EMIS and SystmOne, Liberate AI has accelerated access to care while improving consistency, coding quality, and clinical decision-making at scale.
Highly Commended for the Best Use of AI for Diagnosis & Treatment:
- Big Picture Medical: Recognised for its virtual MDT platform that streamlines multidisciplinary collaboration, reduces diagnostic delays and supports faster, more coordinated clinical decision-making.
- CardMedic: Recognised for its AI-supported communication platform that delivers accessible, multilingual and personalised information to patients, improving understanding, consent and experience across care pathways.
- Isla Care: Recognised for enabling remote patient monitoring and digital follow-up that supports earlier discharge, ongoing recovery and safer care beyond hospital settings.
- Lantum: Recognised for its AI-enabled workforce platform that optimises staffing, continuity and capacity across primary and secondary care, strengthening delivery of patient pathways.
Best AI-Powered Patient Support & Engagement Tool Winner: DrDoctor
Recognised for its AI-supported patient engagement platform that automates appointments, reminders and communications at scale, reducing DNAs, improving access and strengthening the patient experience across NHS services.
Highly Commended for the Best AI-Powered Patient Support & Engagement Tool
- Florence: Recognised for its AI-enabled workforce and engagement platform that supports flexible staffing, continuity of care and improved patient communication across health and social care settings.
- Healthily: Recognised for its generative AI health assistant that helps users understand symptoms, access trusted self-care information and make informed decisions about when and how to seek care.
- HealthHero: Recognised for delivering AI-supported digital access to primary, urgent and specialist care, enabling patients to connect quickly with clinicians through virtual and hybrid care models.
- Netcall: Recognised for its AI-enabled patient engagement and automation platforms that help NHS organisations manage demand, streamline contact centres and improve service responsiveness.
Breakthrough in AI in Drug Discovery & Development Winner: Healx
Recognised for its AI-driven drug discovery platform that analyses large-scale biomedical data to identify and repurpose treatments for rare diseases, significantly accelerating development timelines for patients with high unmet need.
Highly Commended for the Breakthrough in AI in Drug Discovery & Development Category
- Isomorphic Labs: Recognised for applying next-generation AI models to molecular design and biological understanding, with the ambition of fundamentally transforming how medicines are discovered and developed.
- Precision Life: Recognised for its combinatorial AI approach that uncovers complex disease drivers, enabling more precise target discovery and patient stratification in drug development.
Best AI-Enabled Precision Medicine Solution: LifeBit
Recognised for its federated AI platform that enables secure, privacy-preserving analysis of genomic and clinical data at scale, supporting collaboration across organisations while maintaining data sovereignty.
Highly Commended for the Best AI-Enabled Precision Medicine Solution Category
- Alchemab Therapeutics: Recognised for applying AI to immune system data to discover antibody-based therapies for diseases with high unmet need.
- Biomodal: Recognised for combining AI with next-generation genomics technologies to improve molecular resolution and enable more precise biological insights.
- Alchemab Therapeutics: Recognised for applying AI to immune system data to discover antibody-based therapies for diseases with high unmet need.
- Genomics plc: Recognised for developing population-scale genomic risk scores that support earlier identification of disease risk and more personalised prevention strategies.
Best AI for Clinical Workflow Optimisation Winner: HP
Recognised for applying Al and Digital innovation to optimise reliability in clinical environments, enabling resilient digital infrastructure for modern healthcare
Highly Commended for the Best AI for Clinical Workflow Optimisation Category
- Modality Partnership: Recognised for delivering one of the UK’s largest AI-enabled clinical workflow optimisation programmes, combining AI scribing and intelligent automation to release over 45,000 clinical hours back to frontline care.
- Appian: Recognised for its AI-enabled workflow automation platform that helps healthcare organisations streamline complex clinical and administrative processes end to end.
- Heidi Health: Recognised for its AI clinical documentation tools that capture and structure consultation notes in real time, significantly reducing clinician administrative burden.
- Corti: Recognised for real-time AI clinical decision support that improves accuracy and safety during calls, consultations and emergency triage.
- Solventum: Recognised for ambient clinical intelligence solutions that automate documentation and support more efficient, accurate clinical workflows.
- Mizaic: Recognised for improving access to digital patient records and imaging, enhancing information flow across multidisciplinary clinical teams.
- VitalHub: Recognised for digital solutions that optimise patient flow, resource coordination and discharge planning across healthcare settings.
- Druid AI: Recognised for conversational AI platforms that automate healthcare workflows from triage and scheduling to administration and patient interaction.
Best Use of AI for Early & Accurate Diagnosis Winner: Clerkenwell Health
Recognised for applying AI to improve the design, delivery and efficiency of clinical trials and research pathways.
Highly Commended for the Best Use of AI for Early & Accurate Diagnosis Category
- Diagnostics.ai: Recognised for AI-enabled diagnostic decision support tools that help clinicians identify conditions earlier and more accurately.
- Quantexa Health: Recognised for applying advanced analytics and AI to connect complex datasets and generate population-level insights for healthcare decision-making.
- Skin Analytics: Recognised for NHS-approved AI skin cancer detection technology that supports earlier diagnosis and improved triage at scale.
Best Use of AI to Accelerate Operational Innovation Winner: NHS Kent and Medway ICB
Recognised for leading a system-wide evaluation and deployment of ambient voice technology across primary, community, acute and social care, delivering measurable reductions in documentation time, improved clinician focus and strong workforce satisfaction while embedding responsible AI governance.
Highly Commended for the Best Use of AI to Accelerate Operational Innovation
- AccuRx: Recognised for AI-supported communication tools that strengthen patient-clinician interaction and improve access and responsiveness across NHS services.
- HBS UK: Recognised for deploying digital and AI solutions that improve operational efficiency and performance across healthcare organisations.
- ServiceNow: Recognised for workflow automation platforms that support large-scale operational transformation and service optimisation in healthcare.
- Liaison Group: Recognised for digital solutions that improve patient flow, escalation and coordination across urgent and emergency care pathways.
- Patchwork Health: Recognised for AI-enabled workforce platforms that improve staffing efficiency, flexibility and resilience across clinical services.
Distilled Post extends its congratulations to all those recognised, and thanks every organisation that submitted an entry. The quality, ambition and integrity of this year’s submissions reflect a sector moving decisively from experimentation to impact.
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