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Bristol NHS Group, in partnership with Highland, has successfully hosted its first Local Health Tech Showcase, bringing health and social care staff from across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) together with leading technology suppliers to explore how digital innovation can support frontline services and improve patient care. Held at BAWA Health & Leisure, the [...]

By G2 Speech In a market that is expanding with AI tools that promise exceptional results, it’s easy to assume all speech technology is created equal. But it isn’t. The difference between something that works and something that works reliably, clinically and at scale comes down to one thing. The data it was built on. [...]

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully completed a medical workforce planning programme, by pioneering a data-driven programme in partnership with workforce optimisation specialists, SARD. The comprehensive exercise has unlocked trust-wide clarity of capacity and demand to inform safe, efficient and sustainable patient care for over 420,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire. Over eight months, SARD [...]

By Emmanuelle Trombe, co-head of McDermott Will & Schulte's Life Sciences industry practice The life sciences and healthcare sector is entering a new phase marked by both increased complexity and significant opportunity. While it remains one of the most resilient and value-generating industries globally, the conditions underpinning that success are evolving. Recent discussions, including those [...]

NEX Health Intelligence has raised €1m in pre-seed funding to develop AI that predicts hospital infection spread before it moves between patients and wards. The company applies artificial intelligence and advanced mathematical modelling to help hospitals detect, predict and prevent highly resistant infections before they spread between patients and wards. Founded in 2022 [...]

System C has today set out a 12-month artificial intelligence (AI) strategy that will extend ambient AI into emergency care this autumn and maternity services soon after, building on tools already cutting social care documentation time by half across 15 local authorities. Announced to more than 500 customers at the company's annual UserCon conference, the [...]

Immunotherapy may help some patients with treatment-resistant depression, early trial results suggest. The study looked at people with moderate to severe depression who had not responded well to standard antidepressants. About one in three people with depression do not get better with the main medical treatments available, which are based on targeting chemicals [...]

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has opened consultation on a rare disease pathway aimed at speeding therapies to patients and asking industry to help shape the final framework. The draft sets out a technology-agnostic regulatory framework, meaning it is intended to work across different therapy types, to address scientific, evidence and commercial [...]

Visium SA, the AI and data partner for enterprises in highly regulated industries, has announced the successful close of its first institutional funding round. The round was co-led by Columbus Venture Partners and Concentric, with participation from a curated syndicate of unicorn founders. The amount raised is not being disclosed. With this funding, Visium is [...]

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with digital mental health company Psyomics to introduce a new digital platform designed to support improved access by reducing pressure on clinicians, whilst integrating seamlessly with the Trusts clinical systems. The Trust has procured Psyomics’ beseen Adult platform to support clinical and administrative efficiency within its Community Mental [...]