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Orchestrating the New World of AI in Healthcare

Orion Health's UK and Ireland Customer Conference 2023 focused on the future potential and immediate, practical application of AI to healthcare - and gave delegates a first look at the Orchestral health intelligence platform that will support integrated care systems and trusts that want to get started.

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Artificial Intelligence: Unexpected Results

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Until now, AI applications generally have "black box" character: How AI arrives at its results remains hidden. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath, a cheminformatics scientist at the University of Bonn, and his team have developed a method that reveals how certain AI applications work in pharmaceutical research.

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CGM Continues to Drive Digitization in Healthcare and Reports 10 % Revenue Growth in First Nine Months

CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA (CGM), one of the world's leading e-health providers, successfully progressed the digitization in healthcare during the first three quarters in 2023. CGM supports physicians to enable a fully digital patient journey by providing additional modules to process emergency data sets, electronic medication plan and handling e-health records.

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How could Technology Better Support Patient Experience in the NHS?

The NHS exists to serve patients. But more could be done to make their experience a key focus when it comes to technology adoption, senior NHS delegates told a recent roundtable. SPARK TSL reports.

Sustained challenges faced by clinical teams on the frontline of an NHS under pressure are well documented in daily headlines.

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Software Created from 'Building Blocks' could Incorporate AI, Supporting Medical Staff with Workflow and Disease Management

New 'building-block' approaches to the creation of digital tools which include data and artificial intelligence (AI) could play a key role in improving the running of hospital wards and disease management, according to the findings of new research.

The study, by Dr Robert Free at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), suggests that using a package of digital 'building-blocks' to

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Philips Program Developing AI-Powered Ultrasound to Expand Access to Maternal Health Receives Major Funding Boost

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it has received a second round of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate global adoption of AI algorithms on Philips Lumify Handheld Ultrasound. By using AI to simplify key measurements to identify abnormalities during

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"Showtime" for Digital Health Innovations for the Future at MEDICA 2023

13 - 16 November 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany.
A hundred start-ups and more than 120 high-calibre professional speakers: These are just the "naked" facts which this year's MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM will present as an established part of the programme at the world's leading medical trade fair MEDICA 2023 in Düsseldorf from 13 to 16 November, which will feature more than 5.200 participating companies.

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Wolverhampton's New 10-Year EPR Deal with System C Propels Digital Maturity and Care Coordination

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has just signed a 10-year contract with System C for an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) system, which will replace the trust's in-house built EPR and accelerate its digital maturity and roadmap.

RWT, which is one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands, will be taking a two-step approach to the roll out.

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Collective Intelligence can Help Reduce Medical Misdiagnoses

An estimated 250,000 people die from preventable medical errors in the U.S. each year. Many of these errors originate during the diagnostic process. A powerful way to increase diagnostic accuracy is to combine the diagnoses of multiple diagnosticians into a collective solution. However, there has been a dearth of methods for aggregating independent diagnoses in general medical diagnostics.

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New Study Suggests ECG-AI can Detect Cardiovascular Disease Risks Sooner

Artificial intelligence (AI) from patient electrocardiograms (ECGs) may be an innovative solution to enhance heart disease risk assessment. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease - arteries narrowed or blocked by the accumulation of fatty plaques - is the leading global cause of death and is often driven by coronary artery disease.

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