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NHS App users will soon be able to browse and sign up for clinical trials, under government plans to speed up research and widen access to new treatments. The new feature will eventually use artificial intelligence to match people to relevant studies based on their health records and interests, with alerts sent when suitable trials [...]
By Graham Sharp, Managing Director at Health and Safety consultancy, Stanley The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) wearable technologies into the UK health sector, offers tremendous potential for change. We can already see the benefits that these technologies have brought to a range of job roles in the United States and in Europe, where the [...]
CardMedic, the frontline healthcare language app, has secured £411,000 in funding from Innovate UK's SMART grant programme. The grant will fund a 12-month project, running from April 2025 to March 2026, to scale and integrate an innovative portal transforming how healthcare organisations deliver language services. CardMedic will strengthen its existing solution to create a seamless, [...]
The UK has launched an £8m initiative to create what is claimed will be the world’s largest dataset of drug-protein binding data, as part of wider efforts to speed up AI-driven medicine development. The OpenBind consortium, based at the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, aims to generate more than 500,000 experimentally validated protein-ligand structures and [...]
By Chaitra Vedullapalli What if intelligence was no longer something you hired, but something you accessed—like electricity, water, cloud storage or bandwidth? Take a moment to sink in. After listening to Sam Altman's TED Talk on the democratisation of intelligence, Jensen Huang on Rebuilding Industrial Power and Satya Nadella's keynote at Microsoft Build, it became [...]
Melbourne-based startup Lyrebird Health has raised US$12m in fresh funding, valuing the two-year-old company at US$50m. Lyrebird Health’s platform generates clinical documentation from doctor–patient conversations, with the company reporting it saves clinicians 6–8 minutes per consultation. Clinical documentation refers to the detailed records healthcare professionals must complete after each patient visit – an administrative task [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest research and developments in health technology. Scientists develop a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, EPFL scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers - short segments of DNA or RNA that are designed to bind, like antibodies, to specific targets, [...]
Speech recognition and AI provider, G2 Speech, has announced the launch of Aida – its latest AI innovation. Aida (G2 Speech’s AI Digital Assistant) has been built specifically for medical specialists to enrich clinical reporting by further automating the medical documentation process with unparalleled accuracy and efficiency, empowering clinicians to focus on what matters most; [...]
An 'AI scientist' working alongside human researchers has helped identify combinations of affordable, approved drugs—originally used for conditions like high cholesterol and alcohol dependence—that may also be effective against cancer. The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, used the GPT-4 large language model (LLM) to find hidden patterns in scientific literature and [...]
Huma Therapeutics has announced the launch of Hi Scribe, a generative AI clinical documentation tool designed to automate and streamline the creation of clinical notes and supporting materials. Hi Scribe is built on top of the Huma AI foundation engine, known as Huma Intelligence (Hi), which also supports Hi Nurse (10X Nurse) and several other [...]
