Hampshire Emergency Departments Digitise with Alcidion

Emergency departments in three hospitals across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have deployed Alcidion's Miya Emergency, digitising paper processes, saving clinical teams time, automating tasks, and providing trust-wide visibility of patient status and A&E activity.

Clinical professionals and end users were deeply involved in this complex undertaking, from the moment a decision was made to deliver a new emergency department electronic patient record.

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G-Cloud 14 Makes it Easier for NHS to Buy WiFi, Patient Entertainment, and More with Airwave Healthcare

NHS organisations will be able to save valuable time and resource in the procurement of technologies that can make a significant difference to patient experience, in the latest iteration of the government’s G-Cloud procurement framework.

Airwave Healthcare, which works with hospitals to deliver affordable and innovative technologies to help to entertain, educate and inform patients, is for the first time making its services available through the G-Cloud framework.

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New Research Shows Promise and Limitations of Physicians Working with GPT-4 for Decision Making

Published in JAMA Network Open, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Stanford University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Virginia studied how well doctors used GPT-4 - an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model system - for diagnosing patients.

The study was conducted with 50 U.S.-licensed physicians in family medicine, internal medicine and emergency medicine.

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Start-Ups will Once Again Have a Starring Role at MEDICA 2024

11 - 14 November 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The finalists in the 16th Healthcare Innovation World Cup and the 13th MEDICA START-UP COMPETITION have advanced from around 550 candidates based in 62 countries from Armenia to China and America to Rwanda. From 3 p.m. on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 November, they will be exhibiting their innovative solutions on the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM stage as part of MEDICA 2024. The leading international trade fair for the healthcare and medical equipment industries will be held in Düsseldorf from 11 to 14 November 2024.

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New AI Tool Predicts Protein-Protein Interaction Mutations in Hundreds of Diseases

Scientists from Cleveland Clinic and Cornell University have designed a publicly-available software and web database to break down barriers to identifying key protein-protein interactions to treat with medication.

The computational tool is called PIONEER (Protein-protein InteractiOn iNtErfacE pRediction). Researchers demonstrated PIONEER's utility by identifying potential drug targets for dozens of cancers and other complex diseases in a recently published Nature Biotechnology article.

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Philips and Medtronic Advocacy Partnership Aims to Help Accelerate Access to Life-Saving Treatments

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Medtronic Neurovascular, a leading innovator in neurovascular therapies, today announced a strategic advocacy partnership. Delivering timely stroke care is crucial to saving lives and reducing long-term disability. As leaders in stroke diagnosis and treatment, the two organizations are advocating on raising awareness around the potential health and economic benefits for patients, their families and societies of improving access to timely stroke diagnosis and treatment.

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Wearable Cameras Allow AI to Detect Medication Errors

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), detects potential errors in medication delivery.

In a test whose results were published today, the video system recognized and identified, with high proficiency, which medications were being drawn in busy clinical settings.

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Commission Joins Forces with Venture Capital to Support Deep Tech Innovation in Europe

The Commission has launched a Trusted Investors Network bringing together a group of investors ready to co-invest in innovative deep-tech companies in Europe together with the EU. The Union's investment comes from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is part of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.

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AI could Transform How Hospitals Produce Quality Reports

A pilot study led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially lead to easier, faster and more efficient hospital quality reporting while retaining high accuracy, which could lead to enhanced health care delivery.

The study results, published in the October 21, 2024 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) AI,

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AI does Not Necessarily Lead to more Efficiency in Clinical Practice

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospitals and patient care is steadily increasing. Especially in specialist areas with a high proportion of imaging, such as radiology, AI has long been part of everyday clinical practice. However, the question of the extent to which AI actually influences workflows in a clinical setting remains largely unanswered. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have therefore conducted a comprehensive analysis of existing studies on the effect of AI.

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