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Barts Health and Sectra Start Digital Pathology Programme for Three Million People

A programme to enhance patient diagnoses, speed up turnaround times and modernise pathology services has begun at Barts Health NHS Trust. The initiative will improve clinical collaboration and access to specialists, build foundations for the introduction of AI, and harness data to support life sciences and important clinical research.

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Simply Connect and Content Guru Awarded a Place on the NHS England Health Systems Support Framework for Social Prescribing

Simply Connect, the digital social prescribing platform and its partner Content Guru, leader in cloud communications solutions, have together been awarded a place on the 2021 NHS England Health Systems Support Framework (HSSF) for social prescribing(1).

Social prescribing is when health professionals refer patients to support in the community, in order to improve health and wellbeing.

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Government Funding for AI Technology Used to Calculate Pre-Eclampsia Risk

A project proposal to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to calculate women’s risk of pre-eclampsia has been successful in the latest round of the UK Government’s Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award.

King's College London, in partnership with the University of Strathclyde, has received almost £150,000 share of the funding over one year.

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All About Eve

No two human beings are the same, a biologic singularity encoded in the unique arrangement of the molecules that make up our individual DNA.

Variation is a cardinal feature of biology, the driver of diversity, and the engine of evolution, but it has a dark side. Alterations in DNA sequences and the resulting proteins that build our cells can sometimes lead to profound disruptions in physiologic function and cause disease.

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New X-ray Technology: Dark-Field X-ray Technology Improves Diagnosis of Pulmonary Ailments

For the first time, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully used a new X-ray method for respiratory diagnostics with patients. Dark-field X-rays visualize early changes in the alveolar structure caused by the lung disease COPD and require only one fiftieth of the radiation dose typically applied in X-ray computed tomography.

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New Computer Modelling could Boost Drug Discovery

Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have developed a computer-aided data tool that could improve treatment for a range of illnesses.

The computer modelling tool will predict novel sites of binding for potential drugs that are more selective, leading to more effective drug targeting, increasing therapeutic efficacy and reducing side effects.

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Apple Watch Study Provides an Unprecedented Look at the Health Status of a Diverse Patient Population

Researchers in the health and wellness space have typically relied on people to report their personal health data, like activity levels, heart rate or blood pressure, during brief snapshots in time.

Wearable health devices, such as the popular Apple Watch, have changed the game, surfacing meaningful data that can paint a more complete picture of daily life and resulting health and disease for clinicians.

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to Build Shared Care Record with Orion Health

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's integrated care system has signed an eight-year contract with Orion Health to develop a shared care record that will be used by eight health and care organisations and all the GP practices in its area.

The shared care record will take data feeds from the IT systems used by health and social care providers and create a single, holistic view of a patient’s medical and care information.

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Worth a Thousand Words: Automated Diagnosis of COVID-19 from Chest CTs

In a little over 18 months, the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) has infected over 18 million people and caused more than 690,000 deaths. The current standard for diagnosis through reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction is limited owing to its low sensitivity, high rate of false positives, and long testing times. This makes it difficult to identify infected patients quickly and provide them with treatment.

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New Program can Help COVID Alert App Improve Vaccination Campaigns

Researchers are developing a program that could be added to the COVID alert app used on smartphones to better target vaccination campaigns.

The COVID alert app is based on the Google-Apple exposure notification API (GAEN API), a functionality that the tech companies rolled out in April 2020. The Canadian government built an app around the GAEN API, which became the COVID alert app, and managed the system for uploading positive cases.

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