The Health Foundation has released results from a survey of 7,100 members of the public and 1,250 NHS staff members which focused on exploring opinions on virtual wards and “what factors will be important for making sure they work well”, with findings revealing that the UK public “is, overall, supportive […]
Month: August 2023
Digital primary care panel: “Getting the basics right and keeping it simple are the underpinning principles”
For our recent panel discussion on digital primary care, we were joined by Nikki Mallinder (director of primary care at Surrey Heartlands ICS); Dr Paul Wright, (GP, deputy clinical director/IT clinical lead at NHS Greater Manchester and CCIO at Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisation); Jamie Innes (product director at Inhealthcare); […]
Seven digital priorities in West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s joint forward plan
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has shared their Joint Forward Plan, highlighting the role of digital as a “key enabler” in supporting delivery, proposing seven digital priorities across the ICS, and outlining the uses of digital in promoting innovation across the region. The first digital priority emphasises the need […]
AI model makes “high confidence” predictions for at least 40 percent of tumours with unknown site of origin
An AI model developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute could potentially make it easier to target treatments for patients with cancer of unknown primary origin, following a study in which the model was able to “accurately classify at least 40 percent of tumours of […]
Digital-first care company Babylon to sell UK business
Digital-first care company Babylon has announced that a previous proposal to combine their services with digital therapeutics company MindMaze will not go ahead. The news follows a previous announcement towards the end of June in which Babylon shared that they had received the proposal to combine with MindMaze. At the […]
South West London’s new mental health strategy looks to “better co-ordinate digital initiatives across the ICS”
A new mental health strategy from South West London ICB has been released, highlighting plans to utilise digital tools and services to meet the needs of local communities and “better co-ordinate digital initiatives across the ICS to ensure a joined-up approach”. The mental health strategy will link with the wider […]
Welsh patient administration system linked up across North Wales
A programme of work to link up separate versions of the Welsh Patient Administration System (WelshPAS) in North Wales has been completed, bringing all areas of the Betsi Cadwaladr University (BCU) Health Board together under one single system. The WelshPAS is “the largest IT system in NHS Wales and manages […]
Google Health combines large language models with AI vision encoders for X-rays
Google Health has shared an update on their work to build “lightweight, multimodal generative AI models for medical imaging” which uses a combination of large language models (LLMs) and vision encoders for X-rays. Researchers have noted that the work forms “an initial step towards a general purpose X-ray artificial intelligence system” and […]
Elective recovery implementation plan shares actions around Digital Mutual Aid System, NHS Digital Staff Passport and more
Following the establishment of the elective recovery taskforce – designed to “maximise all capacity available to us” by bringing together voices from across healthcare – the government has published an implementation plan which places focus in key areas, including empowering patients to exercise their right of choice and enabling longer-term […]
$60 million raised in Series B funding for Causaly’s AI-powered research platform
Causaly, an artificial intelligence platform for biomedical research, has announced its success in raising $60 million in Series B funding, bringing the total funding raised to $93 million which will be utilised to “extend Causaly’s product lead and expand commercial relationships”. The Series B funding was led by ICONIC Growth and […]
