Several life-threatening diseases have a major genetic component but gene testing for these conditions remains out of reach for many patients because current clinical guidelines don’t recommend the test. Why not?
By John Halamka, M.D.,…
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Avandra
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– Avandra Health, the world’s largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data, today announced the acquisition of DatCard Systems and Sorna Corporation. This strategic move is set to establish…
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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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Real-time prediction of short-term mortality risk in the intensive care unit (ICU) is often hampered by missing medical data. To address this, we developed RealMIP, an end-to-end framework leveraging generative model for the dynamic…
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Synthetic tabular data generation (SDG) is increasingly important in healthcare research and innovation while preserving patients’ privacy. However, ethical concerns remain, primarily over residual privacy vulnerability and insufficient oversight. This review analyzes the only…
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Lung cancer remains the top cause of cancer death, demanding consistent decisions. This clinically oriented review synthesizes computer-aided diagnosis across classical imaging, machine learning, and deep learning, emphasizing bedside-proven advances: multimodal CT/PET–clinical fusion; small-data…
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Cloud imaging should feel like a clear next step, yet most teams still can’t agree on what “cloud strategy” actually means.In this interview, Monique Rasband, Vice President of Strategy & Research for Imaging and…
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Wearable and health app data hold significant potential for healthcare and research, yet fragmented consent mechanisms create challenges for ethical, transparent, and user-controlled data sharing. We describe a centralised consent management system with a…
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Baroness Nicola Blackwood, chair of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS) (Credit: UK Parliament)
Baroness Nicola Blackwood has been appointed as chair of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS), backed by up to £600…
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is planning to allow researchers to access patient data from the Covid-19 pandemic, despite concerns raised by doctors’ representatives.
A formal direction, ‘GP Data for Consented Research’…
