AI

  • The AI Act: The EU’s bid to set the global standard for AI regulation

    Authors: Rosa Barcelo, Romain Perray, Simon Mortier, Lorraine Maisnier-Boché, McDermott, Will & Emery

  • $1.6 million NIH funding to study AI and mindfulness-based therapies for chronic pain

    A new five-year study aims to determine whether artificial intelligence can help doctors steer people dealing with chronic pain away from potentially addictive opioids and toward mindfulness-based approaches. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) initiative-funded study will employ machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to look for clues [...]

  • Watch: AI – Health tech panacea?

    You will be all too aware of the debates raging around AI right now. Health tech AI is no exception. In this exclusive webinar, four expert stakeholders shine a light on the AI innovations transforming healthcare and address some of the challenges ahead. Thanks to our panellists: Paul Wye, Head of AI, Answer Digital Dan [...]

  • AI helps evaluate accuracy of online health news

    Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have developed a machine learning model to help screen medical news stories for accuracy. It can be challenging to gauge the quality of online news—questioning if it is real or if it is fake. When it comes to health news and press releases about medical treatments and procedures [...]

  • How ChatGPT could accelerate design of healthcare software

    A new case study demonstrates how ChatGPT helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software. The research, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, examined the capabilities of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called generative AI or GenAI, which predicts likely options for the next word in any sentence based on [...]

  • Scientists harness AI to study real-world eating behaviours

    Researchers are developing a system to measure real-world eating behaviour using AI-enabled wearable sensors, which could help tackle obesity. A pedometer measures your steps, but what if you had a similar automated device to measure your eating behaviour? Evidence from nutritional studies has long shown that the speed, timing and duration of an individual’s eating [...]

  • Trusts to use AI to reduce skin cancer backlog and increase efficiency

    NHS trusts across England are set to ramp up access to dermatology with the rollout of AI to fast-track identifying potential skin cancers. Nine NHS trusts have been funded to pilot Skin Analytics’ AI medical device to detect cancerous skin lesions, with around 45,000 patients benefiting from this groundbreaking technology by the summer when skin cancer [...]

  • AI helps cut nuisance alerts for healthcare teams

    AI can help to help refine and target the myriad computerised alerts intended to assist doctors and other team members in day-to-day clinical decision-making, accordoing to a new study from the US. These pop-up notifications advise individuals on anything from drug contraindications to gaps in patient care documentation. But exclusion criteria and targeting of these [...]

  • Stabilising the NHS – it’s going to take a lot more than AI

    A general election is coming, and Labour is likely to win. At its January meeting, the Highland Marketing advisory board discussed what should be on shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting’s agenda for health, care and technology.   A general election must be held before the end of January next year, and most commentators [...]

  • Answer Digital enables speedy deployment of AI with strategic partnerships

    Answer Digital has partnered with two of the leading creators of CE-marked clinical AI applications, opening up the possibility of using AI at scale within trusts across the UK. Using open source deployment technology developed with the Medical Open Network for AI (MONAI) community and a new approach to implementing AI at scale, Answer Digital [...]