Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) has published its research strategy for 2024 – 2029, highlighting how “the digital explosion in healthcare provides us with much data” and outlining the use of this data to support the trust’s key strategic priorities as “core business”. On creating a culture […]
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Prostate Progress project to support research through combination of clinical data with patient-reported outcomes
NHS England and Prostate Cancer Research have launched a collaborative research initiative called Prostate Progress which will see the NHS Research Secure Data Environment linking pseudonymised clinical data with patient-reported outcomes, enabling researchers to access “rich, integrated datasets” about prostate cancer care and experiences. Through the project and its combination […]
Innovate UK funds research project exploring how post-market intelligence can be utilised for safe acceleration of medical device adoption
Innovate UK has awarded funding for a project aiming to research how post-market intelligence can be better captured and utilised to safely accelerate medical device innovation and adoption, run by partners including Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, and the Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency (GMDN). […]
Health Information Bill 2024 “lays foundations” for establishment of Digital Health Record across Ireland
Ireland’s minister for health Stephen Donnelly has published the Health Information Bill 2024, designed to provide patients with increased access to their own information and providing a “clear legal basis” to establish a Digital Health Record across Ireland. Additionally, the bill sets out a “duty to share” health information for […]
Coventry and Warwickshire ICS shares data on length of stay and waiting list reductions
Coventry and Warwickshire ICS has shared insight into its work supporting people at home and improving efficiencies around cardiology care, highlighting how initiatives are run, outcomes including specific data, and wider impact on the system. On how patients have been supported to return home following hospital stays, the ICS shares […]
Huma secures $80m and launches Shopify style AI platform for digital healthcare industry
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 […]
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 […]
