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ChatGPT is rolling out Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature that lets adults nominate someone who may be notified over serious self-harm concerns. The update gives ChatGPT users over 18 a way to set up a support contact in advance, while keeping crisis services, localised helplines and emergency guidance as separate safeguards. Chris Lehane, chief [...]
By Samit Kumar Biswas, CEO & founder, Care Safe The UK faces an unprecedented care crisis. More than 15 million people live with mobility challenges, and an ageing population is placing growing pressure on already stretched health and social care services. While artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in medical imaging, drug discovery, and virtual health [...]
A new partnership between Cera, Europe’s largest HealthTech company, and automated living registry platform uMed is bringing clinical research directly to the homes of those who need access to innovative treatments the most. The collaboration enables Life Sciences organisations to access ‘invisible’ cohorts - such as the housebound and elderly – enabling them to participate [...]
Citrine Angels has invested more than US$2m in women-led startups since 2019, marking a new milestone for the investor group. The investments were made across 30 startups by more than 70 women investors, many of whom were first-time angel investors before joining Citrine. Citrine, based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, previously announced its [...]
By Con Raso, managing director at Tuned Global AI and biometric data are turning music into a measurable clinical intervention, attracting major label interest and creating new licensing challenges Music therapy has gained recognition as a valuable tool in healthcare, offering tangible benefits for mental, emotional and physical well-being. AI is now adding a clinical [...]
A new report from Public Policy Projects (PPP), Beyond Bed Management: Enabling Whole-System Patient Flow Through Digital Intelligence, chaired by Dr Victoria Betton, details a transformative approach to patient flow management across the NHS. The report, based on a high-level roundtable with senior NHS, local government, academic, and industry stakeholders, highlights the pressing need to move [...]
A new app aims to help women track heart health after pregnancy complications and close gaps in postpartum care, a new study suggests. Called MumCare, the tool is described as a digital companion to support the prevention and follow-up of maternal cardiovascular risk, meaning the risk of heart and blood vessel disease, after pregnancy complications. [...]
Doctolib has bought Medicus and plans to invest more than £100m in the UK after sealing the deal for the London-based GP software firm. The deal, for an undisclosed amount, will see Doctolib deliver combined technology, AI and services to the clinical and administrative teams of GP practices across the country. Its plans include hiring [...]
An AI body tool used whole-body MRI scans to predict future health risks, including diabetes, cardiovascular events and death, in more than 66,000 people. The study found that the quality and amount of skeletal muscle, not just visceral fat, the fat stored deep around organs, are strong predictors of diabetes, major cardiovascular events and mortality. [...]
UK nursing schools and NHS trusts are locked in a partnership that clinical training depends on - yet the coordination systems holding that partnership together have barely changed in decades. The UK has more than 60,000 unfilled nursing vacancies. It’s training 18,640 new student nurses this year. And yet the pipeline keeps leaking. One in [...]
