An AI spinout from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has completed a seed round to help accelerate the translation of AI from research to clinical care. Cascader, a partnership between Moorfields, Topcon Healthcare, and UCL Ventures, is a medical technology company applying AI in the field of oculomics, and […]
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and DHCW on data use, cloud, and dashboards
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) has shared an update on its use of data in clinical decision making, service planning, and performance improvement, noting the role of tech and digital skills in enabling staff to both access and use reliable information. Use of the National Data Resource (NDR) has […]
AI task force established for Liverpool City region
An AI Task Force has been established for the Liverpool City region, bringing together senior leaders from across industry, academia, healthcare, and public services to lead on ambitions for AI research, health innovation, and digital transformation. Nicola Hodson, former chief executive of IBM UK & Ireland, has been named as […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals cancer data collaboration and research pilot for diabetes in young people
A partnership has been launched between the DATA-CAN data research hub for cancer hosted at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and the West Midlands Secure Data Environment to support access to high quality cancer data for researchers. The partnership draws on pseudonymised patient data from patient records at major cancer centres across […]
University of Birmingham AI spin-out launches to facilitate data extraction from EHRs
An AI spin-out from the University of Birmingham has launched, with an aim to speed up the process of extracting data from EHRs to support medical researchers and reduce the time for drug safety and effectiveness studies. Dexter AI is based on a software developed by a team from the […]
OpenAI introduces EHR and public data integration into ChatGPT for Healthcare
OpenAI has introduced EHR and public data integration into ChatGPT for Healthcare, said to enable AI-assisted workflows and provide clinical teams with a variety of patient information, context, and insights from public health sources. The EHR integration is capable of bringing authorised patient information from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, […]
$35 million awarded to UNC Health for data resource to support AI for rare disease
An award of up to $35 million from the US Department for Health and Human Services’ rare disease AI/ML for precision integrated diagnostics programme is set to support UNC Health build a data resource for rare disease AI. According to UNC Health, the new data resource will support clinicians and […]
Humber and North Yorkshire ICB expansion of data dashboard with inclusion of new metrics
Humber and North Yorkshire ICB has announced the expansion of a data dashboard developed in partnership with York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, aiming to support a “more coordinated approach” to improving health and helping people into work. The People Story Dashboard aligns data with the boundaries of York and […]
TidalSense raises £16 million to scale its AI diagnostic device for COPD
TidalSense, a Cambridge-based AI respiratory diagnostics company, has shared that it has successfully raised £16 million in funding to accelerate the European and US commercialisation of its AI diagnostic device for COPD. This latest announcement means that TidalSense has now raised £34 million to date, including a reported £9 million […]
Whittington Health EPR cloud migration and infrastructure upgrades
Whittington Health NHS Trust has highlighted progress on its infrastructure, including moving its EPR to the cloud and network improvements to improve security and control. The trust is migrating its Rio EPR system to a cloud-hosted environment, with an aim to improve timeliness and performance of community reporting and dashboards, whilst […]

