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Researchers Evaluate Accuracy of Online Health News Using Easily Accessible AI

It can be challenging to gauge the quality of online news - questioning if it is real or if it is fake. When it comes to health news and press releases about medical treatments and procedures the issue can be even more complex, especially if the story is not complete and still doesn’t necessarily fall into the category of fake news.

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Alcidion Launches Miya Results Tracking in Response to Patient Safety Challenge

A systemic cause of patient harm could be better avoided with the help of technology, following the launch of Miya Results Tracking by health tech company Alcidion.

The new digital solution is designed to reduce the risk of test results not being followed up. It has been built to help healthcare professionals in hospital settings to more easily visualise, prioritise and acknowledge high volumes of tests results generated for patients every day, and to take appropriate action in a timely manner.

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AI Outperforms Humans in Standardized Tests of Creative Potential

Score another one for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought.

Divergent thinking is characterized by the ability to generate a unique solution to a question that does not have one expected solution, such as "What is the best way to avoid talking about politics with my parents?"

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AI can Speed Design of Health Software

Artificial intelligence (AI) helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study finds.

Publishing online March 6 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the study examined the capabilities of a form of artificial intelligence called generative AI or GenAI, which predicts likely options for the next word in any sentence based on how billions of people used words in context on the internet.

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LHCH Achieves Prestigious HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 International Digital Accolade

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH) is honoured to join an elite group of hospitals around the world who have successfully validated against the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) international EMRAM Stage 7 standards.

EMRAM - the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model - assesses a health facility's adoption and maturity of its digital capabilities.

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NHS Scotland's Right Decision Service Built on Tactuum Technology

Clinicians in Scotland have easy access to clinical guidelines and validated decision support tools using the Right Decision Service (RDS), built on technology developed by Tactuum.

The RDS is a once-for-Scotland national project funded by the Scottish Government and run by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

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AI Reveals Prostate Cancer is Not Just One Disease

Artificial Intelligence has helped scientists reveal a new form of aggressive prostate cancer which could revolutionise how the disease is diagnosed and treated in the future.

A Cancer Research UK-funded study reveals that prostate cancer, which affects one in eight men in their lifetime, includes two different subtypes termed evotypes.

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International Team Led by BSC Develops AI Technology to Improve Treatment of Rare Diseases

An international team of scientists led by ICREA researcher and Director of the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Alfonso Valencia, has developed a technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) for the study of minority diseases and has successfully applied it to identify the possible causes of the appearance of what are known as myasthenic-congenital syndromes, a group of rare inherited disorders that limit the ability to move and cause varying degrees of muscle weakness in patients.

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For Type II Diabetes Prevention, Tap into AI

Better prevention of Type II diabetes could save both lives and money. The U.S. spends over $730 billion a year - nearly a third of all health care spending - on treating preventable diseases like diabetes.

For the 98 million adults who are prediabetic and at risk of developing Type II diabetes, preventive treatments such as the drug metformin can help stave off the disease.

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Bayer Driving Progress in Radiology through Innovation in Research and Radiology AI

Bayer moves ahead with advancements across its comprehensive Radiology portfolio as well as expanded offering in its digital business and services. The company announced that new clinical and pre-clinical data for gadoquatrane, Bayer's novel investigational macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent currently in Phase III clinical development, will be presented at the 2024 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) - taking place from February 28 to March 3, 2024, in Vienna, Austria.

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