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Former NHS CIO Will Smart Joins Alcidion

A former national chief information officer for health and social care in England, Will Smart will join the Alcidion Group board in a global role from October. He will provide strategic insight as the company continues to support healthcare organisations in different parts of the world digitise frontline services.

During an extensive career in digital health, Smart has advised senior government ministers, has played leading roles in initiatives including the Global Digital Exemplar programme and has helped to drive technology adoption from within the health technology industry.

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ChatGPT Outperformed Trainee Doctors in Assessing Complex Respiratory Illness in Children

The chatbot ChatGPT performed better than trainee doctors in assessing complex cases of respiratory disease in areas such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and chest infections in a study presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria.

The study also showed that Google’s chatbot Bard performed better than trainees in some aspects and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot performed as well as trainees.

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Airwave Healthcare Expands Team with Francesca McPhail

Patient stimulus technology provider Airwave Healthcare has appointed Francesca McPhail, who will help health and care providers achieve more from their media and entertainment systems for people receiving care.

Francesca McPhail has worked with hundreds of healthcare organisations during her career, and has now joined the Airwave Healthcare team as a key account manager.

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Healthcare Week Luxembourg: Second Edition Focuses on "The Future of Health"

1 - 2 October 2024, Luxembourg.
Save the date: Healthcare Week Luxembourg is back on 1 and 2 October 2024 at Luxexpo The Box. Acclaimed last year by healthcare professionals from the Greater Region, this exhibition, designed as a cross-border and European platform for exchange, intends to tackle the challenges and issues facing the sector with an even richer and more varied programme. It explores the theme of "The future of health: added value for all".

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New AI-Driven Tool could Revolutionize Brain Pressure Monitoring in Intensive Care Patients

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a noninvasive technique that could dramatically improve the way doctors monitor intracranial hypertension, a condition where increased pressure in the brain can lead to severe outcomes like strokes and hemorrhages.

The new approach, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), offers a safer and faster alternative to the current gold standard of drilling into the skull.

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Bayer Launches New Healthy-Aging Ecosystem for Consumers

Combining a scientifically formulated dietary supplement, a leading-edge wellness companion app, and a saliva-based a biological age test by Chronomics, Bayer is taking a big step in the emerging healthy-aging space by offering consumers new tools to help them support their healthy-aging journey with its new Age Factor™ ecosystem.

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A New AI Tool for Cancer

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers.

The new AI system, described Sept. 4 in Nature, goes a step beyond many current AI approaches to cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.

Current AI systems are typically trained to perform specific tasks - such as detecting cancer presence or predicting a tumor's genetic profile - and they tend to work only in a handful of cancer types.

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Vision-Based ChatGPT Shows Deficits Interpreting Radiologic Images

Researchers evaluating the performance of ChatGPT-4 Vision found that the model performed well on text-based radiology exam questions but struggled to answer image-related questions accurately. The study's results were published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Chat GPT-4 Vision is the first version of the large language model that can interpret both text and images.

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Machine learning helps identify rheumatoid arthritis subtypes

A machine-learning tool created by Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators can help distinguish subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which may help scientists find ways to improve care for the complex condition.

The study published Aug. 29 in Nature Communications shows that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can effectively and efficiently subtype pathology samples from patients with RA.

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New Diabetes Research Links Blood Glucose Levels and Voice

As part of its ongoing exploration of vocal biomarkers and the role they can play in enhancing health outcomes, Klick Labs published a new study in Scientific Reports - confirming the link between blood glucose levels and voice pitch and opening the door to future advancements in non-invasive glucose monitoring for people living with Type 2 diabetes.

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