Robotics
An expert AI team which is part of the NHS Transformation Directorate will develop a new round of projects where artificial intelligence can overcome issues in healthcare. The NHS AI Lab Skunkworks team of data scientists, engineers and project leaders are providing free short-term expertise and resources to public sector health and social care organisations. [...]
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 [...]
Feeling depressed and low in the winter season is nothing new. But the way we tackle it is nothing short of innovative. Can AI be an effective treatment for seasonal blues? The way we treat mental health is changing drastically, as automation and artificial intelligence gain ground in global healthcare. We’re learning to trust AI, [...]
A new Meta AI demo which was trained on over 40M science papers had to be pulled after just two days, after it wrote “racist” and “inaccurate” scientific literature, it has been reported. The new tech, which was intended to help “organise science” backfired in a big way when the newly trained AI began spewing [...]
As services fail to cope with a sharp rise in demand for mental health care, artificial intelligence, robotics and even smartphone apps have become a realistic concept. But could this shift away from human care be doing more harm than good? The rising demand for mental health care, and huge increase in demand for therapy, [...]
The National Horizons Centre is a leading light in the emerging genomics and bioinformatics space.
Sara Brammall is managing director of Summit Medical and Scientific. Eight years ago, the Surrey-based company started partnering with world-leading developers to bring the highest quality rehabilitation equipment to customers across the UK. It must be exciting to work in this rapidly-evolving field. How have stroke rehabilitation systems evolved over the past decade? There have [...]
