Global healthcare AI company Huma Therapeutic Limited has completed a Series D funding round with financing of over $80 million and launched the Huma Cloud Platform, designed to help accelerate the adoption of digital and AI across care and research. The Huma Cloud Platform is described as “a technology ecosystem […]
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West Herts Hospitals highlights virtual wards for rising almost 100 places in NHS league tables
According to recent NHS stats, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals has risen from 102nd place in trust rankings for A&E waiting times to seventh place in two years, citing its “virtual hospital” approach as helping to free up “thousands of beds”. The latest figures indicate that 82.6 percent of over 17,000 […]
University of Huddersfield develops secure threat intelligence sharing platform to protect AI tools from cyber attacks
A team from the University of Huddersfield is working on the development of a secure threat intelligence sharing platform with the aim of helping to protect AI-enabled diagnostic tools from cyber attacks. Dr Faisal Jamil, lecturer in computing within the university’s centre for autonomous and intelligence systems, is leading the […]
Leeds Teaching Hospital partners with Newton’s Tree to scale evaluation and implementation of AI
A partnership has been announced between Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and health tech startup Newton’s Tree which will see the startup’s enterprise AI platform deployed across the trust, with the aim of supporting Leeds Teaching Hospitals to “rapidly scale” its ability to evaluate and implement artificial intelligence applications. The […]
Study highlights limitations of large language models around clinical diagnosis, interpretation of results and integration
A study published this month in Nature Medicine journal evaluates the limitations of large language models (LLM) in clinical decision-making by exploring their accuracy, with the research team highlighting reported challenges with diagnosis, interpretation of laboratory results and safe integration into existing workflows. For the purposes of the study a […]
Progress update on data research from All-Island eHealth Hub for Cancer
Research undertaken as part of the All-Island eHealth Hub for Cancer has highlighted the value of effective data sharing, computer code and the employment of digital health expertise when it comes to identifying diagnostic methods and developing targeted treatments for cancer. The hub – a partnership focused on developing data […]
GOSH explores use of AI for Parkinson’s and deep brain stimulation for epilepsy
Artificial intelligence and deep brain stimulation devices are being utilised by teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), with researchers developing a machine learning tool aiming to predict Parkinson’s disease before onset of symptoms, and a clinical trial team implanting a device to block electrical pathways in order to treat […]
Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) recently published its organisational strategy for 2024-2030, framed around five key missions: to provide a platform for enabling digital transformation, to deliver high quality digital products and services, to expand the digital health and care record and the use of digital to improve healthcare, […]
Norfolk and Waveney ICS shares update on Joint Forward Plan, including data used to map progress
Norfolk and Waveney ICS has shared an update on the progress made around aims set out in the ICS’s five-year Joint Forward Plan, including how data is being used to measure progress and completion of ambitions. The ICS has recently published its population health management strategy and a health inequalities strategy, […]
Panel discussion: David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community and Julia Lake, associate director for digital (data) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on bringing data to life
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion, we were joined by David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Julia Lake, associate director for digital (data) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to talk about how their organisations are currently using data, […]
