Digital Health’s 2024 Review: Top 10 news stories
The last 12 months has seen a new government, a major cyber attack on the NHS and a commitment to £2bn tech funding hitting the headlines.
Digital Health News has picked out 10 of the…
Tag: AI and Data
‘Music as medicine’ trialled for South Asian people with dementia
British health tech firm MediMusic and researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have been awarded £183,682 to investigate how AI technology and music can ease anxiety amongst people of South Asian backgrounds who are living…
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Recommendations published to tackle bias in medical AI tech
A set of internationally-agreed recommendations has been published with the aim of reducing the risk of potential bias in AI for healthcare technologies.
The guidelines from the STANDING Together initiative, published The Lancet Digital Health…
‘Desperate shortage of clinical coders creates financial uncertainty’
Qualified clinical coders are vital to ensure clinical information and funding flows around the system correctly. But a national shortage of coders is having wide-ranging consequences, argues Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Data…
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Digital tool helps remove barriers to motor neuron disease research
A digital platform has been developed by University of Sheffield and the UK Motor Neuron Disease (MND) Research Institute to help people participate in clinical studies on MND.
The Telehealth in MND-Research (TiM-R) service, hosted…
Henrique Martins: ‘The UK needs to go big with harmonised large datasets’
During his tenure as head of the Portuguese Digital Health Agency between 2013 and 2020, Henrique Martins was responsible for advancing the nation’s eHealth strategy, including projects such as the health information sharing platform…
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NHS using AI to predict frequent emergency service users
The NHS is using AI to predict patients who are at risk of becoming frequent users of emergency services, so staff can get them more appropriate care at an earlier stage.
High Intensity Use (HIU)…
All 107 stroke centres in England using AI technology, says NHSE
The 107 stroke centres in England are all now utilising AI technology, Darrien Bold, head of elective care at NHS England, has confirmed.
In a blog post published on 5 December 2024, Bold said: “I…
NHSE to consult on clinical registry data plans following opposition
Exclusive: NHS England will consult on controversial plans to consolidate patient data from England’s clinical registries in a single platform, following opposition from patient groups.
In 2022, NHSE announced that it would combine more…
MHRA selects five AI-powered medical devices for regulatory pilot
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has selected five technologies for its AI Airlock, a pilot scheme launched to better understand how we can regulate AI powered medical devices.
AI Airlock, which launched…