A hypnotherapy-based virtual reality treatment is to be piloted at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, with aims to help ease symptoms including hallucinations and delusions in patients with psychosis. The VR headsets will be used in the trust’s rehabilitation wards to support patients in engaging […]
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NICE launches reporting standards and tool for evaluations of AI technologies
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has launched a new reporting standard designed to help improve the transparency and quality of cost-effectiveness studies of AI technologies, in a move it hopes will “help healthcare decision-makers understand the value of AI-enabled treatments” and offer patients “faster access to […]
Scalpel AI raises £3.8m to expand surgical instrument tracking and validation platform
London-based Scalpel AI, combining computer vision and machine learning to identify and track surgical instruments, has raised £3.8 million in a funding round designed to help the company scale its global operations and roll out its technology across the healthcare supply chain. Scalpel AI’s tech generates a digital twin for […]
AI use cases in the NHS: supporting diagnosis, personalising treatment, predicting disease
Let’s take a look at some of the latest use cases and research around artificial intelligence (AI) across the NHS. Predicting disease development at Imperial College An AI model designed to help predict the risk of developing disease using an electrocardiogram (ECG) has been developed by researchers from Imperial College […]
DeepHealth acquires AI diagnostic company to support breast cancer care
DeepHealth, provider of a portfolio of AI solutions designed to support breast, lung, prostate and neurological care, has acquired London-based cancer diagnostic company Kheiron Medical Technologies Limited, as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of AI-powered diagnostic and screening solutions. Kheiron’s Mammography Intelligent Assessment (Mia) offers an AI-powered platform […]
NHSE highlights challenges with AI evaluations: potential for bias, adoption site capacity, variation between sites
NHS England has shared guidance on evaluating artificial intelligence projects and technologies with learnings from the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Award’, which ran for four years until 2024 and supported the design, development and deployment of “promising” AI technologies. NHSE states how evaluation focused on eight key […]
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire utilises AI to tackle waiting lists
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) has shared insight into how the trust is utilising artificial intelligence with the aim of improving patient experience, with focus on a collaborative project designed to reduce the number of missed appointments. UHCW’s CEO Professor Andy Hardy spoke at an IBM event to share […]
Two new reviews launched to examine patient safety, quality and governance within the health system
The UK government has shared plans for two reviews exploring patient safety within the health system, examining firstly the roles and remits within six organisations overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care with a “significant” impact on patient safety, with a view to making recommendations on whether a different […]
Health secretary speech to Royal College of General Practitioners highlights data as “the future of the NHS”
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting delivered a speech at the Royal College of General Practitioners last week, emphasising the role of technology in rebuilding and reforming general practice and emphasising data as “the future of the NHS”. Highlighting the findings of the Darzi investigation that “GPs are expected to […]
£118m in funding to create new hubs and partnerships to develop health technologies
A number of new partnerships are set to be trialled in the UK which will see the NHS and the UK’s research and development base working alongside the private sector, with UK Research and Innovation announcing £118 million in funding to create five new hubs to help develop new health […]
