A collaboration between Ultromics, a specialist AI system to support clinicians in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease has partnered with the Mayo Clinic to quantify cardiac involvement in COVID-19 and help triage high-risk patients with myocardial injury. The research team is applying the artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 […]
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COVID-19 insights report published
Following in-depth analysis from across a wide breadth of metrics and performance indicators, revolving around translation to robust COVID-19-focused support, a detailed insights report has been published at both global, national, and individual trust-level. The report builds from a foundation of comparable data collated from a range of sources, in […]
UCL to use supercomputers to research COVID-19
University College London researchers are to use supercomputers to support ‘urgent investigations’ into COVID-19 disease. The aim is to be able to accelerate the development of vaccines and antiviral drugs by using the most powerful supercomputers commonly used for high intensive tasks such as quantum mechanics and climate research. A consortium […]
Health app in China to control citizen movements after relaxing lockdown measures
Two of the most popular apps in China are hosting a new health survey app to control the movements of Chinese citizens, following cities relaxing lockdown measures this week. To travel, a user must complete the quick survey. The software issues them with a coloured health code, green, yellow, or […]
NHS Digital partners with email and data security supplier
NHS Digital has partnered with email and data security supplier Egress for NHSmail. Egress Protect will integrate into NHSmail to improve protection and security, following a recent successful pilot of the solution. Chris Parsons, NHSmail Programme Lead at NHS Digital said “NHSmail is already a safe, secure email system, used […]
NHS Digital publishes data on COVID-19 symptoms reported
NHS Digital has published a new dashboard that shows the total number of COVID-19 symptoms reported through NHS Pathways triages through 111 and 999, and online assessments in 111 online. NHS Digital said the data is based on potential COVID-19 symptoms reported and is not a count of people, where a […]
AI content analysis on COVID-19 archive literature
A team of US health tech specialists this week announced a new programme to use artificial intelligence to scan 24,000 papers on COVID-19 to find patterns, signs and insights about the virus. The aim is to help to find answers to questions raised by the World Health Organisation about the pandemic. […]
Public Health England publishes live coronavirus tracking dashboard
Public Health England have published an interactive tracking dashboard for the spread of COVID-19. The dashboard includes statistics on total cases, daily confirmed cases and total deaths in the UK. The information is displayed in bar chart format broken down into England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There is also a […]
Data visualisation tools to support large cardiovascular clinical trials
Data visualisation tools developed by Zegami will be used by Oxford University for large cardiovascular clinical trials. Oxford University researchers at the Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility will apply data visualisation techniques to hundreds of thousands of images of the heart, making it easier to categorise them and identify new […]
Digital tool to help spot signs of delirium to be rolled out in Greater Manchester
A digital tool to help spot signs of delirium quickly is to be rolled out to two hospitals in Greater Manchester following success in Salford. The digital tool will support all patients aged 65 or over or with a diagnosis of dementia on admission to hospital. It will now be […]
