By Solutions for Health While COVID-19 brings challenges for stop smoking services, online support and an AI-powered robo-coach mean there’s digital support to help people kick the habit. Smokers are up to fourteen times more likely to have serious complications from COVID-19 than non-smokers according to recent research in China. […]
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Barts Health adopts AI for high risk colon cancer patients
Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented an artificial intelligence platform to help identify and prioritise patients at high risk of developing colon cancer. The tool from Medial EarlySign is being used to identify patients most likely to benefit from further evaluation and intervention. The company said the algorithms help to identify patients by […]
Liverpool Heart and Chest partners with AI company
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS FT has partnered with an artificial intelligence company to use the technology in clinical practice and lung cancer screening. Working with Amsterdam-based medtech company Aidence, the trust will use the AI solution, Veye Chest, to support radiologists analyse the approximately 7,000 routine and screening chest CT scans […]
Oxford University and NHS Digital collaborate on risk prediction tool
Oxford University and NHS Digital have developed a risk prediction tool to help identify patients who are at a higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19. The new model has been developed from data analysis and uses algorithms that could be applied to support GPs and healthcare teams in consultations to […]
Northampton General introduces bots to monitor oxygen levels
Northampton General Hospital is utilising Robotic Process Automation technology to help plan the care of COVID-19 patients. Using software robots that replicate typical manual human processes, the tool completes tasks that typically would have required human input. It means staff time can be used elsewhere and the technology can support accurate […]
UCL and Casualy partner for AI coronavirus research
A new partnership has been launched with AI specialist Casualy and University College London to research COVID-19. The teams will explore the identification of biomarkers and potential therapeutic agents using AI techniques to read and interpret vast sources of information. This could be from previous research into similar viruses. The technology […]
Biobank GP data to be made available to scientists to tackle COVID-19
Data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants is to be made available to support scientists tackle COVID-19. Primary care data containing COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases from a dataset of over 503,000 consented participants will be extracted on a monthly basis for COVID-19 research purposes. The programme is being provided through Public […]
Dartford and Gravesham pilots process automation tech
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has piloted process automation technology from Cloud21. The trust started the programme in July 2019 to explore the use of process automation in clerking clinics using the UiPath platform and to explore replacing manual administration process with technology. Neil Perry, director of digital transformation “I’ve worked […]
Matt Hancock announces £140m AI Award open for applications
Matt Hancock has today announced a new £140m Artificial Intelligence Award to be run by the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) in partnership with NHSX and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) now open for applications. It will make £140million available over three years to accelerate the testing and evaluation of the most […]
A Digital Gathering – Clinicians and the Clinical Outcomes Reporting Systems
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO of Draper & Dash Predictive HealthcareAnalytics We are now at the point where it is possible to measure almost every component of the human physiology and many elements of behaviour. But it can and has been increasingly challenging for clinicians to get a tool or the right […]
