An ‘innovator passport’ will be introduced over the next two years to allow technology that has been robustly assessed by one NHS organisation to be easily rolled out to others, the Department of Health…
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Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.Marta Bralic Kerns, founder and CEO of Pomelo CareIn this episode of the podcast, I sat down with…
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NZ launches online breast screening platform Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand’s latest digital breast screening platform has gone live nationwide.
Called Te Puna, it allows users to enrol, book, and manage their breast screening appointments…
Target trial emulation (TTE) aims to estimate treatment effects by simulating randomized controlled trials using real-world observational data. Applying TTE across distributed datasets shows great promise in improving generalizability and power but is always…
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This study introduces a Bayesian multidimensional hierarchical item response theory (MHIRT) model to improve patient-reported outcome (PRO) assessments in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Traditional unidimensional scoring fails to capture the multifaceted nature of recovery….
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Welcome to the June 2025 edition of Digital Health Digest!Stay on the cutting edge of healthcare technology with our top stories this month. From multimillion-dollar funding rounds to AI assistants transforming workflows, these innovations…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs provides healthcare at 1,380 health facilities across the country, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,193 outpatient sites. And while these hospitals and clinics vary in size and technological…
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US health systems receive up to 200 M monthly website visitors. Connecting patient searches to the appropriate workflow requires accurate classification. A dataset of searches on ~15 US health system websites was annotated, characterized, and…
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There are no prospective clinical studies evaluating artificial intelligence implementation for glaucoma detection in real-world settings. We developed an automated retinal photography and AI-based screening system and prospectively assessed its accuracy, feasibility, and acceptability…
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We reviewed 1016 FDA authorizations of AI/ML-enabled medical devices to develop a taxonomy capturing key variations in clinical and AI-related features. Quantitative image analysis remains the most common application, but its relative proportion has…
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