John Quinn, chief information officer at NHS England, said that the digital maturity assessment (DMA) needs to be “useful and useable”.
Delivering a keynote session at Digital Health Summer Schools on 18 July 2024, Quinn…
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has signed a one-year contract with telehealth company QuestPrehab to deliver digital ‘prehabilitation’ services to liver patients.
Prehabilitation (prehab) focuses on improving the general health and activity of patients before…
A new study that pitted six humans, OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude3-Opus to evaluate which of them can answer medical questions most accurately found that flesh and blood still beat out artificial intelligence.
Both…
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Direct primary care company Vitable has raised $16 million in Series A funding, which it will use to expand into new markets, the startup announced Friday.
Philadelphia-based Vitable works with small to medium-sized businesses that…
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Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system’s centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas…
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Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage…
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Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans.
Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant from a pig to a living…
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GE HealthCare this past week said it will acquire the clinical artificial intelligence business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group. The price for the software buy is about $51 million, the companies said.WHY IT MATTERSIntelligent Ultrasound…
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The big news of the weekend was hearing about the response of organizations to the CrowdStrike debacle on Friday. Despite official statements that everything was fine and patient care was proceeding as usual, comments…
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The Queen Victoria Hospital has invested £750,000 in a CT scanner, which is aimed at improving access to diagnostics and increasing the hospital’s capacity.
The Siemens machine replaces the hospital’s first scanner, funded by the…
