AI
Sanome has secured Class IIb CE certification and MHRA approval for MEMORI - an AI-enabled warning system for the early prediction/prevention of healthcare‑associated infections (HAIs). The company has also appointed new strategic advisors, including former Health Minister Lord James Bethell and ex-Executive Director of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Prof Carole Longson. [...]
By Julian Coe, Managing Director, X-on Health As primary care evolves, digital innovation offers a practical way to support clinicians and improve patient care. Digital telephony has been widely adopted but there is much that can be done to improve the utilisation of the advanced features now available, and Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) is increasingly [...]
Ambience Healthcare has raised US$243m in Series C funding to scale its ambient AI documentation platform across health systems in the US. The round was co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins and Optum Ventures. New investors include Town Hall Ventures, Frist Cressey [...]
Earzz is a British startup behind a Health Tech World Award-winning monitoring technology aiming to advance safety, independence and care outcomes. The company was founded by CEO Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan who has been combining acoustic engineering and AI for around 20 years. Thiruvenkatanathan’s innovations include a gravity sensor and a tool that enables BP to ‘listen’ [...]
Millions of Americans could soon upload personal medical records to apps built by private tech companies under a new federal health data initiative. The Trump administration’s programme involves more than 60 organisations, including Google, Amazon and major healthcare providers such as the Cleveland clinic. It focuses on diabetes and weight management, conversational AI tools for [...]
England’s first NHS physiotherapy clinic powered by AI has halved waiting lists for back pain and musculoskeletal care in a 12-week pilot scheme. More than 2,500 patients across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough used Flok Health, an AI-enabled physiotherapy platform, from February this year. The service, designed with video recordings of a real physiotherapist, offers same-day video [...]
An international AI competition has tested machine learning models on real antiviral data to assess their use in developing coronavirus treatments. The ASAP-Polaris-OpenADMET Challenge involved 66 teams from across the world, each tasked with predicting how well potential drugs could block coronavirus enzymes, as well as assessing their safety and how they bind to viral [...]
Briya has announced the launch of Briya AIRE, the world’s first clinical-grade AI research assistant built to accelerate biomedical and clinical decision making. Designed to “think” in the language of medicine, clinical research and epidemiology, AIRE turns months of manual data analysis into actionable insights in minutes – enabling faster, cost-effective discovery across biopharma and [...]
A UK council has turned one employee’s 35 years of experience into an AI chatbot to support colleagues working in adult social care. Geraldine Jinks, a therapy practitioner at Peterborough City Council, was often asked for advice on care-related queries. After her manager recognised how much time this was taking, the council developed Hey Geraldine [...]
A new AI-powered brain stimulation system could improve focus during challenging tasks, allowing people to enhance concentration from home. The personalised system combines transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) – a gentle and painless form of electrical brain stimulation – with artificial intelligence that adjusts settings based on individual traits, such as attention levels and head [...]
