AI
Today, many healthcare organisations are discovering more technology does not always translate into better patient engagement. Fragmented systems, disconnected communication channels and inconsistent strategies for outreach often create added complexity rather than clarity. AssureCare is addressing this challenge with the launch of Aktivate, a next generation patient engagement platform designed to unify communication across the [...]
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first NHS organisation to sign a contract with System C to implement its CareFlow Ambient AI Outpatient Consultations module, with go-live planned for Summer 2026. The implementation will mark a major milestone in the transformation of outpatient care delivery. The Trust will be part of a cohort of customers pioneering [...]
Internationally renowned surgeon and innovator Prof Shafi Ahmed has published his new book, INTELLIGENT: The Evolution of AI Transforming Healthcare, offering a powerful and timely exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern medicine. INTELLIGENT examines the rapid acceleration of AI across healthcare – from reading diagnostic scans and guiding surgical procedures to transforming drug [...]
Limited tickets are now available to purchase for Health Tech World's in-person healthcare AI and networking event on August 21. ‘Unlocking the Healthcare AI Opportunity’ will bring together four expert voices and 100 delegates to Teesside University’s London campus, set within Stratford’s iconic Olympic Park site. Each speaker will explore a unique angle of AI's [...]
Rapid Health’s Smart Triage innovation newly integrated into the NHS App, is improving GP access for patients across England. For the first time, over one million patients can access appointments not previously available via the NHS App 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, marking an improvement in patient experience, and reducing administrative pressure on practices. Every patient using Smart [...]
By Wolfgang Hackl, MD, CEO OncoGenomX, Allschwil, Switzerland Precision oncology is entering a new phase. Over the next 10-15 years, it is likely to evolve from a discipline focused mainly on molecular matching into one that is dynamic, predictive, and deeply integrated with tumour biology, causal reasoning, and advanced AI. For HealthTech innovators, clinicians, researchers, [...]
Helical has announced a US$10 million seed round led by redalpine with participation from Gradient, BoxGroup, Frst and notable angels including Aidan Gomez (CEO Cohere), Clement Delangue (CEO HuggingFace) and footballer Mario Goetze. The Helical virtual AI lab for pharma is an application layer that turns biological foundation models into decision-ready, reproducible in-silico discovery workflows. [...]
A new AI tool could show which advanced bowel cancer patients will respond to bevacizumab, a drug recently introduced by the NHS. Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin developed the PhenMap tool with the goal of sparing potentially thousands of patients from [...]
By Gil Bashe, FINN Partners Chair Global Health and Purpose, and a Health Tech World Correspondent. Bashe is the author of Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter At the HIMSS Global Health Conference, the conversation around artificial intelligence felt different this year. Not quieter, but more grounded. The industry is moving beyond fascination [...]
The MHRA has secured £3.6m to expand AI Airlock, the UK’s first regulatory sandbox for AI medical devices. Following a successful second phase, the Department of Health and Social Care has allocated £1.2m a year for the next three years, from 2026 to 2029, to the programme. The newly approved multi-year funding will allow the [...]
