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Tulane University Study Uses AI to Detect Colorectal Cancer

A Tulane University researcher found that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately detect and diagnose colorectal cancer from tissue scans as well or better than pathologists, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.

The study, which was conducted by researchers from Tulane, Central South University in China, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Temple University, and Florida State University, was designed to test whether AI could be a tool to help pathologists keep pace with the rising demand for their services.

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Health Meets IT: DMEA Newcomer Award Invites Entries

26 - 28 April 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Digitalisation of our healthcare sector must be stepped up - the experience of recent months has shown that. It is why new ideas on how to successfully shape the transition are in demand. Once again, DMEA - Connecting Digital Health, Europe's largest event for health IT - is providing a platform for these ideas and the brilliant minds behind them. This event is where next year the best graduate papers on the topic of digitalisation in the healthcare sector will be honoured again.

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DMEA Call for Papers: Digital Health in All its Diversity

26 - 28 April 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Health meets digitalisation. From 26 to 28 April 2022 DMEA - Connecting Digital Health, the leading platform for health IT, is opening its doors again on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds.

Experts representing business and science as well as practitioners are invited to shape next year's all-day event programme with their contributions. From now until 2 December they can submit their papers for this event.

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Giving AI Penalties to Get Better Diagnoses

Anyone waiting for the results of a medical test knows the anxious question: 'Will my life change completely when I know?' And the relief if you test negative.

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed more and more to predict life-threatening disease. But there remains a big challenge in getting the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms precise enough.

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First-of-its-Kind Healthcare Communications App Inspired by the Challenges of COVID-19 Signs First Agreement with Acute NHS Trust

A web and mobile app-based start-up launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to help UK healthcare professionals communicate with patients has signed its first commercial agreement with a hospital trust.

The Oxford-based CardMedic app, which offers online flashcards to guide patients through common clinical interactions, will be now available to healthcare professionals across University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

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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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