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 NHS App to show estimated waiting times for treatment, prescription details
Digital Health - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Patients will have access to two new features on the NHS App effective 30 January, allowing them to see the estimated waiting time for hospital treatment and view all prescription details, NHS England said. The…  Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust’s next Sectra go-live completed
Digital Health - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust’s Oldham site has gone live with Sectra’s digital pathology solution, helping to enhance multi-disciplinary team meetings and collaboration.In total seven laboratories across the Greater Manchester Pathology Network are to… |
 Augmenting AI for Robust Clinical Note Analysis in Healthcare
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Columbia University presented a groundbreaking technique at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference to enhance AI and ML models’ performance in medical note analysis. Addressing the challenge of dataset…  India’s growing focus on AI for precision medicine
Healthcare IT news - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) New adjunct specialty facilities in India’s leading health institutions are advancing precision medicine in the country through AI. The Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC) in Bengaluru has recently opened what could be the country’s first Precision… |
 AI Solutions Easing Physician Burnout in Healthcare
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Physician burnout is a global crisis, impacting clinician retention and patient care. A report by WISH, Qatar Foundation, and WHO highlights the failure in duty of care for clinical professionals. The Emirates Health Service…  Unraveling Trends in Rising Breast Cancer Rates Among Young Women
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Unveiling a concerning surge in breast cancer diagnoses among women under 50, a study led by the Washington University School of Medicine underscores the urgency of understanding this upward trajectory. Analyzing data from over… |
 It Takes A Community to Support A Pregnancy. A Digital Health Ecosystem Could Provide One
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Loral Patchen, Sr. Faculty Midwife Attending, MedStar Washington Hospital Center Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-founder, Babyscripts Our mothers are dying. In 2021, the United States saw 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. When stratified by…  Clinical Trials Tech Firm Science 37 to Go Private at Fraction of Past $1B Valuation – MedCity News
MedCity News - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) Clinical trials technology company Science 37 went public during the Covid-19 pandemic, a time when drug developers readily embraced technologies that enable patients to participate in drug studies from their homes. Decentralized clinical trials… |
 How Are Healthcare AI Developers Responding to WHO’s New Guidance on LLMs? – MedCity News
MedCity News - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) This month, the World Health Organization released new guidelines on the ethics and governance of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare. Reactions from the leaders of healthcare AI companies have been mainly positive.  State of Digital Health 2023: From Gold Rush to Consolidation in a Cooling Market
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday January 30, 2024) What You Should Know: The year 2023 marked a stark shift for digital health, transitioning from the heady days of record-breaking funding to a harsh reality of tightening belts and consolidation, according to a new… |