Google announced the launch of MedGemma, which the company says contains the most capable open models that help developers build healthcare-based AI applications to examine medical images, generate medical image reports, triage patients or…
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Background: Cataract is the world’s leading cause of avoidable blindness. High-quality cataract surgery is a cost-effective procedure to restore vision. In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), there are high rates of poor outcomes after…
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Cyngor Gwynedd and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board have partnered with Lilli to deploy it’s AI home monitoring technology in Wales.
Lilli allows professionals to monitor people’s health at home remotely through an app, by…
Background: Anticoagulation management (AM) is important in preventing complications in patients undergoing cardiac valve replacement (CVR). The development of mobile applications offers new opportunities for the management of long-term anticoagulants. However, there is a…
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One of the hospitals where I am on staff has decided to take a dip into the waters of virtual nursing, at least according to a buzzword-filled newsletter that came out last week. Apparently,…
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Helen Thomas, chief executive at Digital Health and Care Wales (Image provided by DHCW)
Serious concern has been raised by the Welsh government about the ability of Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) to…
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On-demand, in-home care company Sprinter Health secured $55 million in a Series B financing round led by General Catalyst.Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health and other existing investors, including the Regents of the University…
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For all the strides made in recent years breaking down the many barriers to data interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem, challenges still remain. One of the biggest is sharing patient information between and among…
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Most of the public think that a single patient record (SPR) already exists, according to research commissioned by Understanding Patient Data.
Plans for an SPR, summarising patient health information, test results, and letters through the…
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OpenAI launches HealthBench, a physician-developed benchmark that evaluates large language models on real-world medical decision-making. It uses 5,000 realistic clinical conversations to grade models on communication quality, instruction adherence, accuracy, context awareness, and…
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