Care Quality Commission has released guidance on best practice for digital record systems, focusing on the role of “good quality records” in providing “safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care”, and sharing four principles for providers around keeping systems person-centred with emphasis on availability, security, and governance. The first of the four […]
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Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI collaborate on responsible development of frontier AI models
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have announced that they are collaborating to form a new industry body focusing on ensuring the “safe and responsible” development of frontier AI models, hoping to facilitate collaboration, identify best practices, and advance AI safety research. The Frontier Model Forum “will draw on the technical […]
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 […]
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 […]
Green plan from Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals shares ambitions around digital infrastructure audit and digital strategy development
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH) has published a green plan with ambitions including an audit of their digital infrastructure and the development of a new digital strategy which will place focus on whole-system intelligence and health and social care integration. The green plan shares that the […]
Panel: taking a data-driven approach to operational improvements, day-to-day management, and proactive care
For our latest thought leadership webinar, we welcomed a panel of experts for a discussion on taking a data-driven approach to operational improvements, day-to-day management, and proactive care. To bring a variety of expert insights and viewpoints to the discussion, we were joined by Stephen Slough, chief digital information officer at […]
UCLH pilot study highlights Archer system supports “quick and accurate” transfer of data from EHR to research software
A pilot study from University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust has found that transfer of data from electronic health records to research-specific software was completed “more quickly and accurately” when using IgniteData’s Archer system, as compared to the manual process of transferring information. Utilising Archer’s EHR-to-EDC technology (electronic […]
