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By Enveil CEO and founder Ellison Anne Williams.
COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment in the Philippines is being supported by a new AI tool. The AskBob AI-based ‘clinical decision support system’, developed by tech firm Ping An, integrates anonymised patient medical records, clinical guidelines and a core medical knowledge graph, covering tens of millions of medical data points. It enables big data analysis and AI technology with authoritative [...]
Could gaming really detect depression, anxiety or Alzheimer's Disease? We meet Emilia Molimpakis from Thymia who are working with clinicians on games to diagnose your mental health.
Researchers recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same research group has revealed that the addition of a novel blood test, the Stockholm3 test, can reduce the number of MRIs performed by a third while further preventing the detection of minor, low-risk tumours. “Overall, our [...]
Ireland’s National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) has moved its SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing hub onto the latest version of CliniSys’ laboratory information system. The move to WinPath Enterprise will futureproof capacity and thereby reduce turnaround times at the NVRL’s Satellite Laboratory Backweston (NSLB) in County Kildare. NVRL director Dr Cillian De Gascun said: “At the start [...]
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is set to launch a new digital platform to manage pre-operative assessments across its three hospitals. The Trust will launch Synopsis Home and Synopsis iQ at the Andover War Memorial Hospital, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester in the coming months. Synopsis iQ will [...]
AI-led technology deployed by Barts Health NHS Trust has potentially saved thousands of people with diabetes from limb amputation, it has been revealed. Barts Health, which delivers healthcare to a diverse population of 2.5 million people in East London, was able to use its new AI technology - which harnesses natural language processing - to analyse [...]
Dr Anas Nader, CEO of Patchwork Health, on why undervaluing nuance is a mistake for health tech innovators.
The global growth of Genomatica is being stepped up through securing $118million in funding to support the ongoing commercialisation and expansion of its sustainable materials. The Series C financing of Genomatica, which harnesses biology to remake everyday products and materials with a reduced environmental impact, was led by life science investor Novo Holdings. Genomatica will [...]
Study presents new possibilities for medical uses of the material.
