AI
An AI healthcare company creating the future of personalised prostate cancer care has received 510(k) clearance by the FDA. What’s in store for Its cancer management platform? AI platform iQuest (Avenda Health) may produce more precise imaging of prostate cancer, which is beyond current traditional capabilities of MRI. The cancer management platform has now received [...]
This ‘Siri for care’ is expected to reduce A&E visits by over 50%, regularly tracking patients’ symptoms via a series of questions, to monitor for health deterioration. Cera is trialling the groundbreaking AI - a first for the UK care sector… Europe’s largest provider of digital-first home healthcare, Cera, is trialling a groundbreaking voice assistant [...]
With its rapid evolution, it's time to look at ways AI can better support clinicians for a more responsible future, says KOSA CEO Layla Li... AI is not just a tool that is made for helping in diagnosis; it is also a tool for detecting problems at an early stage, with more detailed analysis and [...]
A healthcare provider is trying to tackle major bed-blocking issues in NHS hospitals by launching a “rapid discharge” service, alongside new tech to improve the onboarding of patients… Specialist home healthcare provider Cera is aiming to tackle major bed-blocking issues in the NHS with a new rapid discharge service - proven to visit c.80% of [...]
This robot patient can simulate stroke symptoms and other conditions to give nurses groundbreaking new training. And he also loves a good conversation. Meet HAL S5301, the patient unlike any other… The world’s most advanced robotic patient simulator has found a home at a nurse training centre, and could be the start of things to [...]
Clinical practice and medical AI reportedly constitutes “cycles of exclusion” for minority populations, with origins in systematic racism and implicit bias. What’s going on? Concern is growing for the future of healthcare AI - after continued signs that it could be seriously disadvantaging minority groups and acting in a way which shows “implicit” racism and [...]
Experts say that the mind and body are inseparable, and that loneliness can be connected with heart disease, diabetes and dementia. New data showing soaring heights of loneliness could mean we are heading straight into a public health “catastrophe”. Over three million of us are struggling with loneliness in the UK alone (ONS). In the [...]
Who is having a real impact on healthcare and digital health? Which innovations will positively affect healthcare in 2023? Here’s the Health Tech World longlist of some of the most prominent names in the space… 1- Intuition Robotics | Israel Intuition Robotics is on a mission to empower older adults to live happier, healthier and [...]
Artificial intelligence is learning to imitate human compassion - and it’s taking shape everywhere from customer service to psychiatric therapy to full imitations of our dead relatives. But can we automate empathy? Should AI be marketed as having compassion? No matter which way you spin it, the idea of automating empathy and compassion is a [...]
One round of IVF costs a sixth of the average household income (£31,400) - and families struggling to pay for it think their employers should foot the bill. Should they? Families struggling to afford the costs of IVF should be able to look to their employer for financial support, according to over 60% of Brits, [...]
