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Research Study Shows the Cost-Effectiveness of AI-Enhanced Heart Failure Screening

Earlier research showed that primary care clinicians using AI-ECG tools identified more unknown cases of a weak heart pump, also called low ejection fraction, than without AI. New study findings published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health suggest that this type of screening is also cost-effective in the long term, especially in outpatient settings.

Incremental drops in heart function are treatable with medication but can be hard to spot.

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Remote Telemedicine Tool Found Highly Accurate in Diagnosing Melanoma

Collecting images of suspicious-looking skin growths and sending them off-site for specialists to analyze is as accurate in identifying skin cancers as having a dermatologist examine them in person, a new study shows.

According to the study authors, the findings add to evidence that such technology could help to reliably address diagnostic and treatment disparities for lower-income populations with limited access to dermatologists.

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New Guidance for Ensuring AI Safety in Clinical Care Published in JAMA

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in health care, organizations and clinicians must take steps to ensure its safe implementation and use in real-world clinical settings, according to an article co-written by Dean Sittig, PhD, professor with McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston and Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, professor at Baylor College of Medicine.

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We could Soon Use AI to Detect Brain Tumors

A new paper in Biology Methods and Protocols, published by Oxford University Press, shows that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish brain tumors from healthy tissue. AI models can already find brain tumors in MRI images almost as well as a human radiologist.

Researchers have made sustained progress in artificial intelligence (AI) for use in medicine. AI is particularly promising in radiology, where waiting for technicians to process medical images can delay patient treatment.

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Telehealth Significantly Boosts Treatment Success for Hepatitis C in Rural Patients

New research reveals a dramatic improvement in diagnosing and curing people living with hepatitis C in rural communities using both telemedicine and support from peers with lived experience in drug use.

The study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, outlines the results of a randomized controlled trial led by Oregon Health & Science University in seven rural counties in Oregon.

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AI can Predict Study Results Better than Human Experts

Large language models, a type of AI that analyses text, can predict the results of proposed neuroscience studies more accurately than human experts, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

The findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrate that large language models (LLMs) trained on vast datasets of text can distil patterns from scientific literature, enabling them to forecast scientific outcomes with superhuman accuracy.

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Is Your Marketing Effective for an NHS CIO or CNIO?

How can you make sure you get the right message across to an NHS chief information officer, or chief nursing information officer?

Replay this webinar with Professor Natasha Phillips, former NHS England CNIO, and Neil Perry, a former acute trust CIO, in live conversation with Highland Marketing's Matthew D'Arcy and the ABHI's Jonathan Evans.

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Using AI to Treat Infections more Accurately

New research from the Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network (CAMO-Net) at the University of Liverpool has shown that using artificial intelligence (AI) can improve how we treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), and help to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve and no longer respond to treatments that were once effective.

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500 Patient Images per Second Shared through National Portal as NHS Tackles Backlogs

The image exchange portal, widely known in the NHS as the IEP, is now being used to share as many as 500 images each second - including x-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound scans and more.

The system was first introduced into the NHS in 2009, to allow trusts to share images with each other. Greater reliance on the independent sector to help to tackle diagnostic backlogs, and an increase in patients requesting access to their own images, have contributed to a growth in use of the portal, as more images move beyond organisational boundaries.

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Jane Stephenson Joins SPARK TSL as Chief Executive

Jane Stephenson has joined SPARK TSL as chief executive as the company looks to establish the benefits of SPARK Fusion with trusts looking for deployable solutions to improve productivity.

Stephenson joins the company from System C Healthcare, where she was chief revenue officer, having previously led Clevermed, the provider of the BadgerNet neonatal and maternity system.

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