Health Data Research UK, the national institute for health data science, is launching a new opportunity that aims to help patients benefit from health and care decisions that are informed by analysing large scale data. The work includes up to four projects and a new partnership that will integrate with […]
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NHS Wales partners with AdviseInc for spend analytics
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) Procurement Services has partnered with AdviseInc to implement advanced spend analytics across NHS Wales. The analytics tool will support NWSSP have visibility of all non-pay spend, including analysis and insight into product switching, supply route switching, EU exit analysis and price variation tracking. The […]
Royal Free London and Barts Health roll out 3D image analysis software
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust will be rolling out 3D image analysis software to improve heart disease diagnosis. The new image analysis software aims to improve accuracy rates for coronary heart disease diagnoses and reduce the use of invasive patient testing. Dr Parmajit […]
Paris start-up launches smart monitoring t-shirt
Chronolife, a Paris-based company has launched a new smart t-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention and monitoring. The company has also this week closed a new round of fund raising to help in its commercial phase. The platform uses wearable electronics to integrate 10 biometric scanners […]
PinPoint raises £1m to fund AI cancer detection tech
PinPoint a startup that is developing a test aiming to quickly ‘rule out’ cancer from using a blood sample has raised £1 million in funding from the Angel Investment Network. The company is developing its test using AI/Machine Learning with an aim to rapidly ‘rule out’ or detect cancer from […]
Cerner picks AWS as its preferred cloud and machine learning provider
At the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent in Las Vegas, Cerner CEO and Chairman of the Board Brent Shafer announced the corporations plans with Amazon Web Services. Cerner has selected AWS as its preferred cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) provider. Shafer said to the audience “For […]
Owkin, NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to deliver AI
Owkin, a company that develops AI algorithms for cancer centres and pharmaceutical companies has announced its partnering with NVIDIA and King’s College London (KCL) to deliver Federated Learning, a model of AI, into the healthcare and life sciences sector. Owkin recently passed a proof-of-concept phase and is now providing its AI […]
Moorfields to develop prediction model from large-scale glaucoma biobank
Moorfields Eye Hospital is developing a tool to help personalise glaucoma treatment and identity patients most at risk of sight loss at the point of glaucoma diagnosis. A team at Moorfields, led by Dr Anthony Khawaja, will establish a data resource, known as the Moorfields Glaucoma BioResource, that will be […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: Machine Learning in Healthcare
In the latest report in the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked healthcare professionals about machine learning. There were two striking details which emerged from this particular survey question; firstly, inline with our survey article from last week, where respondents overwhelmingly thought positively about the potential […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: Artificial Intelligence
In the latest report from our HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked NHS professionals about artificial intelligence. Since March 2019, we surveyed health care professionals to understand more about artificial intelligence to support health care delivery. In this article we highlight some of the responses. When asked […]
