Imperial College London spun off a digital health business called Digital Care Planning yesterday to commercialise a digital platform connecting end-of-life patients and clinicians.

Digital Care Planning has developed a tool called Amber Care Plans that creates digital records of advance care plans (ACPs), which help patients record their preferred courses of care and treatment in case they are unable to communicate.

ACPs have been linked with reducing unnecessary hospital stays and ensuring that palliative patients can die at their…