The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has advised that AI chatbots should not replace advice from healthcare professionals after research found one in four UK patients are turning to AI and social…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated Public Health Wales as a collaborating centre for digital health equity.
The partnership will play a key role in shaping WHO’s work on digital health equity and strengthening…
Professor Alicja Rudnicka from the School of Health and Medical Sciences at City St Georges, University of London (Credit: Professor Alicja Rudnicka, City St George’s, University of London)
Researchers have developed a testing platform…
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Sıla Özeren, Security Research engineer at Picus Security
When a hospital’s connected devices are compromised, it’s more than just data or dollars at risk — it’s patient lives. In recent years, operational technology (OT) devices, such as…
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Professor Peter Johnson, NHS national cancer director (Image provided by NHS England)
Five AI tools that help spot warning signs of bowel cancer earlier have been conditionally recommended by the National Institute for Health…
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Hot off the presses, the new Oracle Health EHR has received certification for ambulatory use and approval for electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
Oracle claims that the EHR was built independently of the original…
Digital health interventions (DHIs) targeting blood pressure (BP) control were more effective in patient self-care than usual care (UC). However, the relative contribution of DHIs involving different healthcare practitioners (HCPs) towards BP control remained…
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Youssof Oskrochi, head of safety at Curistica (left) and Elliott Roy-Highley, medical director at Unbound (right) (Credit: Youssof Oskrochi and Elliott Roy-Highley)
A national study into NHS clinical safety found that more than 10,000…
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The research strongly suggests that it’s time to rethink our nutritional choices and urge patients to do likewise.
By Paul Cerrato, MA, senior research analyst and communications specialist and John Halamka, M.D., Diercks President, Mayo…
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We propose metrics from information theory to characterize the clinical and operational dynamics of hospitals. Ergodicity, the equality of time- and space-averages within a dynamical system, ensures its stationarity. Surprisal, the log-inverse of probability,…
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