‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’
Consultant paediatrician Martin Farrier faces a nightmarish future – and finds it reassuringly familiar
Lately I’ve been counting AI doctors like (electric) sheep as I attempt to drift off to sleep. And I blame…
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Pitchfest 2022 winner CardMedic secures £411k Innovate UK grant
Digital Health Pitchfest winner CardMedic has secured £411,000 in funding from Innovate UK’s SMART grant programme for its frontline healthcare language app.
The grant will fund a 12-month project, running from April 2025 to March…
Generalist medical foundation model improves prostate cancer segmentation from multimodal MRI images
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common types of cancer, seriously affecting adult male health. Accurate and automated PCa segmentation is essential for radiologists to confirm the location of cancer, evaluate its…
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Public favours tiered system of access for single patient record
The public do not want all health and care professionals to have full access to a single patient record (SPR) and would prefer a tiered system of access, according to government research.
NHS England and…
Why Claims Data Alone Leave Gaps in Understanding the Patient Journey
Noah Nasser, CEO at datma
In today’s precision medicine landscape, pharmaceutical companies and access teams face a critical challenge: understanding not just whether therapies work, but how they are accessed, adopted, and experienced by real-world…
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The Overlooked Connection Between GLP-1s, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Gretchen Zimmermann, MBA, RD, VP of Clinical Strategy at Vida Health
The false belief that people with obesity do not have eating disorders is one of the most harmful misconceptions in obesity care. In reality,…
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Approaching health system-level IT redesign
What does it take for a private hospital group to become a blueprint for national health system digital maturity? At the upcoming HIMSS25 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Conference in July, Dr Kun-Ju Lin, deputy chief of Chang…
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Aussie AI scribe startup to go global with $12M funding
Melbourne-based startup Lyrebird Health has recently raised $12 million in new funding from a venture round led by Five V Capital and United Kingdom-based Octopus Ventures, with participation from Startmate. Launched in 2023, it offers…
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More accurate ageing clock relies only on clinical data
A new algorithm-based biological ageing clock developed in Singapore has shown potential to better predict mortality and health outcomes by only using clinical data. Researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School…
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Multimodal model for the diagnosis of biliary atresia based on sonographic images and clinical parameters
It is still challenging to diagnose biliary atresia (BA) in current clinical practice. The study aimed to develop a multimodal model incorporated with uncertainty estimation by integrating sonographic images and clinical information to help…
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