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AI as Therapeutic Support

The face is a mirror for a person's emotional state. The interpretation of facial expressions as part of psychotherapy or psychotherapeutic research, for example, is a very effective way of characterizing how a person is feeling in that particular moment. Back in the 1970s, psychologist Paul Ekmann developed a standardized coding system to assign basic emotions such as happiness, disgust or sadness to a facial expression in an image or video sequence.

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Clinicians could be Fooled by Biased AI, Despite Explanations

AI models in health care are a double-edged sword, with models improving diagnostic decisions for some demographics, but worsening decisions for others when the model has absorbed biased medical data.

Given the very real life and death risks of clinical decision-making, researchers and policymakers are taking steps to ensure AI models are safe, secure and trustworthy - and that their use will lead to improved outcomes.

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Why Managing NHS Waiting Lists is about Safety, Not Just Numbers

Opinion Article by Dr Mark Ratnarajah, practising paediatrician, UK Managing Director, C2-Ai.
NHS waiting lists have remained highly visible in the public eye, especially since the pandemic. With more than seven million people now waiting for elective procedures, media reports have focused on growing numbers month after month.

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Using AI to Discover Therapeutic Antibodies

Antibodies are an important tool in the human immune system's arsenal against disease. They attach to bacteria, viruses, fungi, or toxins, marking them for destruction or removal from the body.

It is this ability to recognise and mark foreign and harmful molecules and organisms that allows therapeutic use of antibodies, including treating or preventing diseases such as cancer, as well as auto-immune and metabolic diseases.

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Want to Improve NHS Productivity? Start by Addressing its Legacy IT

The state of NHS infrastructure and legacy systems has started to attract attention from organisations worried about falling productivity. The Highland Marketing advisory board asked what it will take to fix the issues, against a backdrop of more funding being diverted from digital to "the frontline."

The NHS is heading for a significant financial squeeze, with its already tight 2021 Budget settlement eroded by inflation and the bill for a year of strikes - which has come in at around £1 billion.

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Contract for NHS Scotland Diagnostic Imaging Technology Awarded to Sectra

The agreement with NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) will provide tools that will support healthcare teams as they review and report on around 5 million radiology examinations a year, working across NHS Scotland organisations.

The fully managed software as a service (SaaS), Sectra One Cloud, will be used by all of Scotland's 14 territorial NHS boards and by NHS Golden Jubilee, which also hosts the Scottish National Radiology Reporting Service.

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Amsterdam UMC to Use AI to Increase the Accessibility of Medical Imaging Technology

The demand for acquiring and interpreting medical images is increasing faster than number of medical experts required to operate the medical imaging device and interpret their output. This is leading to an increase in the expert workload and extending waiting lists. An Amsterdam UMC-led consortium wants to tackle this problem by making imaging technology more accessible.

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NEJM AI to Educate Clinicians about Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medicine

NEJM Group, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, today announced the launch of its newest title, NEJM AI, a peer-reviewed, monthly journal dedicated to the latest research and application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in medicine. In addition to original research articles, the journal publishes reviews, policy perspectives and educational material for clinicians, scientists, health care leaders, policy makers, regulators, and executives with pharmaceutical, device-manufacturing and technology companies.

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AI Chatbot Shows Potential as Diagnostic Partner

Physician-investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) compared a chatbot's probabilistic reasoning to that of human clinicians. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that artificial intelligence could serve as useful clinical decision support tools for physicians.

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Battle of the AIs in Medical Research: ChatGPT vs Elicit

Can AI save us from the arduous and time-consuming task of academic research collection? An international team of researchers investigated the credibility and efficiency of generative AI as an information-gathering tool in the medical field.

The research team, led by Professor Masaru Enomoto of the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka Metropolitan University, fed identical clinical questions and literature selection criteria to two generative AIs; ChatGPT and Elicit.

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