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Accelerating How New Drugs are Made with Machine Learning

Researchers have developed a platform that combines automated experiments with AI to predict how chemicals will react with one another, which could accelerate the design process for new drugs.

Predicting how molecules will react is vital for the discovery and manufacture of new pharmaceuticals, but historically this has been a trial-and-error process, and the reactions often fail.

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Creating Exam Questions with ChatGPT

For the study, the UKB (Universitätsklinikum Bonn) researchers created two sets of 25 multiple-choice questions (MCQs), each with five possible answers, one of which was correct. The first set of questions was written by an experienced medical lecturer, the second set was created by ChatGPT. 161 students answered all questions in random order.

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AI-Driven Eye Exams Increase Screening Rates for Youth with Diabetes

A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study of children and youth with diabetes concludes that so-called autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) diabetic eye exams significantly increase completion rates of screenings designed to prevent potentially blinding diabetes eye diseases (DED). During the exam, pictures are taken of the backs of the eyes without the need to dilate them, and AI is used to provide an immediate result.

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Draft Digital Health #Rewired24 Programme Published

12 - 13 March 2024, Birmingham, UK.
Digital Health has published the draft programme for the big five stages at Rewired24, the UK's biggest and best health IT and digital health event.

Each of the five main stages run across the two-days of Rewired24 which will run at the NEC Birmingham, packed with original keynotes, inspiring NHS case studies, panel sessions and lively Rewired debates.

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eHealth Network Guideline on Hospital Discharge Report

The Member States in the eHealth Network have adopted these supplementary clauses to the general guidelines for the electronic exchange of health data under Cross-Border Directive 2011/24/EU to support the exchange of Hospital Discharge Report for continuity of care in a cross-border setting. The Hospital Discharge Guideline builds on the foundations laid out by the Patient Summary and the ePrescription Guidelines (including datasets and code systems). The eHealth Network guidelines build a set of guidelines that should be seen as complementing each other in different use cases and are operating under the umbrella of the General Guidelines.

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New AI Tool Accurately Detects COVID-19 from Chest X-Rays

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that can rapidly detect COVID-19 from chest X-rays with more than 98% accuracy. The study results have just been published in Nature Scientific Reports.

Corresponding author Professor Amir H Gandomi, from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Data Science Institute, said there was a pressing need for effective automated tools to detect COVID-19, given the significant impact on public health and the global economy.

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Health Tech Priorities for 2024

Highland Marketing has been looking ahead to 2024 and asking health tech leaders what they expect to see in health tech this year. The chair of the advisory board, Jeremy Nettle, argues that with a general election approaching, the NHS needs a period of stability to address the pressures it is facing.

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More Lives can be Saved if Ambulance Staff Receive AI-Support

Assessing how seriously injured a person is, involves weighing up lots of different parameters fast. If healthcare professionals could get support making fast-paced, life-critical decisions from an AI tool, more lives could be saved. This is shown by research from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, along with the University of Gothenburg and the University of Borås.

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New AI Tool Brings Precision Pathology for Cancer and Beyond into Quicker, Sharper Focus

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that interprets medical images with unprecedented clarity does so in a way that could allow time-strapped clinicians to dedicate their attention to critical aspects of disease diagnosis and image interpretation.

The tool, called iStar (Inferring Super-Resolution Tissue Architecture), was developed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who believe they can help clinicians diagnose and better treat cancers that might otherwise go undetected.

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How Big Data Transforms the Insurance Sector

In 2022, the insurance industry made a whopping USD 6 trillion globally - more than the entire economy of big countries like Japan and Germany. A new study, published in The Journal of Finance and Data Science, looked at how technology, especially big data, is shaking things up in insurance. Big data means using a lot of information to make better decisions.

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