AI

  • System C announces commitment to GenAI to improve efficiency for health and social care professionals

    System C today announced the development of a new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solution designed to help health and social care professionals save time on administrative tasks. The technology uses secure cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs) to generate draft documentation, referrals and tasks based on audio recordings or notes from clinician-patient or social worker-citizen interactions. [...]

  • Using AI to uncover patients’ Long Covid care needs

    New research shows that AI could help improve overall care of Long Covid patients by combing data to help pinpoint typical care needs, such as what specific departments and care teams are required to meet patient needs. The project analysed electronic health records of Long Covid patients, revealing a collection of four patient sub-populations, such as [...]

  • New mathematical model could help protect privacy and ensure safer use of AI  

    Computer scientists have developed a new mathematical model which could help people better understand the risks posed by AI and assist regulators in protecting peoples’ privacy.  For the first time, the method provides a robust scientific framework for evaluating identification techniques, especially when dealing with large-scale data. This could include, for instance, monitoring how accurate [...]

  • AI platform identifies patients likely to benefit most from clinical trials

    A first-of-its-kind platform using AI could help clinicians and patients assess whether and how much an individual patient may benefit from a particular therapy being tested in a clinical trial. The AI platform can help with making informed treatment decisions, understanding the expected benefits of novel therapies and planning future care. The researchers developed TrialTranslator, [...]

  • New AI model accurately predicts progression of autoimmune disease

    A new artificial intelligence model more accurately predicts who will proceed to advanced disease stage in people with preclinical symptoms of autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own healthy cells and tissues, often have a preclinical stage before diagnosis that’s characterised by mild symptoms or certain antibodies in the [...]

  • AI system helps identify patients at risk for suicide

    Clinical alerts driven by AI can help doctors identify patients at risk for suicide, potentially improving prevention efforts in routine medical settings, a new study has shown. The study investigated whether an AI system could effectively prompt doctors in three neurology clinics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to screen patients for suicide risk during [...]

  • Health tech innovations in 2025

    Innovation in healthcare is accelerating and 2025 is set to see further growth for the sector driven by advancements in AI and personalised care, say experts.  With the market projected to surpass $200bn and a remarkable CAGR of 25 per cent, the industry is shifting from reactive treatments to proactive, preventive healthcare, said Gary Coffey, [...]

  • Researchers design test to evaluate AI’s clinical communication skills

    A new study has revealed that Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT do well on medical exam-style questions, but their performance worsens when engaged in conversations more closely mimicking real-world interactions. AI tools such as ChatGPT have been touted for their promise to alleviate clinician workload by triaging patients, taking medical histories and even providing [...]

  • How gen AI will transform life sciences in 2025

    By Shweta Maniar, global director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google Cloud The life sciences industry is in a position to help humanity, perhaps more than ever, with the introduction of generative AI (gen AI). Lengthy drug development timelines and complex regulatory hurdles are two of the most longstanding challenges in this space, and this new [...]

  • Beyond the hype: How generative AI will actually transform healthcare in 2025

    By Aashima Gupta, global director, Global Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud 2024 proved to be a transformative year for the Healthcare industry as generative AI technologies continued to advance. At Google Cloud, we saw many of our healthcare customers move beyond AI experiments and deploy generative AI (gen AI) in production. And, in a recent study, [...]