WiFi SPARK's Healthcare Business Rebrands as SPARK TSL

Leading WiFi provider WiFi SPARK is rebranding its healthcare arm as SPARK Technology Services Limited. The new identity marks the completion of the integration of the former Hospedia bedside unit business and a new vision for the NHS, based on patient engagement and application services.

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ChatGPT is Debunking Myths on Social Media Around Vaccine Safety

ChatGPT could help to increase vaccine uptake by debunking myths around jab safety, say the authors of a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics.

The researchers asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot the top 50 most frequently-asked COVID-19 vaccine questions. They included queries based on myths and fake stories such as the vaccine causing Long COVID.

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ChatGPT Shows 'Impressive' Accuracy in Clinical Decision Making

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that ChatGPT was about 72 percent accurate in overall clinical decision making, from coming up with possible diagnoses to making final diagnoses and care management decisions. The large-language model (LLM) artificial intelligence chatbot performed equally well in both primary care and emergency settings across all medical specialties.

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AI Predictions for Colorectal Cancer: One Step Closer to Efficient Precision Oncology

Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks second in leading causes of cancer-related deaths globally, according to the WHO. For the first time, researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the University of Technology Dresden (TU Dresden) show that artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictions can deliver comparable results to clinical tests on biopsies of patients with CRC.

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Combining AI Models Improves Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

Combining artificial intelligence (AI) systems for short- and long-term breast cancer risk results in an improved cancer risk assessment, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Most breast cancer screening programs take a one-size-fits-all approach and follow the same protocols when it comes to determining a woman's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

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Healthcare Chatbot: Expand Support with Ease

The Danish eHealth platform, sundhed.dk, has faced a substantial surge in requests from Danish citizens and has swiftly expanded its support and effectively adapt to the ongoing changes in queries due to the ongoing changes within the Health Industry. To accommodate these changes, sundhed.dk uses the Chatbot from SupWiz to solve urgent needs for support and provides a nice citizen experience.

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ChatGPT Shows Limited Ability to Recommend Guidelines-Based Cancer Treatments

For many patients, the internet serves as a powerful tool for self-education on medical topics. With ChatGPT now at patients’ fingertips, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, assessed how consistently the artificial intelligence chatbot provides recommendations for cancer treatment that align with National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines.

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ChatGPT can Outperform University Students at Writing Assignments

ChatGPT may match or even exceed the average grade of university students when answering assessment questions across a range of subjects including computer science, political studies, engineering, and psychology, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The research also found that almost three-quarters of students surveyed would use ChatGPT to help with their assignments, despite many educators considering its use to be plagiarism.

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NHS AI Diagnostic Funding: Five Things to Consider if You are Applying

Opinion Article by Guilherme Carvalho, Sales & Contracts Manager, Sectra.
A new £21 million fund for AI was announced by the UK government in June, with the intention of providing NHS trusts with at least some of the tools needed to deliver faster, more accurate diagnoses for patients.

The urgency to get these tools in place, means that many NHS trusts and imaging networks will now be engaged in developing bids, ahead of what is a tight September deadline.

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Mahana Therapeutics Signs Agreement with Consumer Health Division of Bayer to Commercialize Digital Therapeutics

Mahana Therapeutics, a leading provider of prescription digital therapeutics, announced today that the company has entered into a multi-million-dollar distribution and marketing partnership with the Consumer Health division of Bayer to commercialize digital therapeutics. Earlier this year, Bayer announced the launch of a new business unit focused on delivering new digitally enabled precision health products to market.

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