AI Tool Decodes Brain Cancer's Genome During Surgery

Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor's DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery - critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few weeks.

Knowing a tumor's molecular type enables neurosurgeons to make decisions such as how much brain tissue to remove and whether to place tumor-killing drugs directly into the brain - while the patient is still on the operating table.

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Mobile Phone Data Used for Public Health Underrepresent Vulnerable Populations

Mobile phone data are increasingly used in public health management and disease outbreak response, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic when location data were used as a proxy for human movement and contacts and informed exposure notification apps. However, a new study led by researchers at Penn State revealed that phone data may not accurately reflect under-resourced or particularly vulnerable populations, who are often underrepresented in other data as well.

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AI Finds a Way to People's Hearts

AI (artificial intelligence) may sound like a cold robotic system, but Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have shown that it can deliver heartwarming - or, more to the point, "heart-warning" - support. They unveiled an innovative use of AI that classifies cardiac functions and pinpoints valvular heart disease with unprecedented accuracy, demonstrating continued progress in merging the fields of medicine and technology to advance patient care.

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AI Unleashes a Pandora's Box: ChatGPT Generates Convincingly Fake Scientific Article

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on May 31, 2023, by Dr Martin Májovský and colleagues has revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) language models such as ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) can generate fraudulent scientific articles that appear remarkably authentic. This discovery raises critical concerns about the integrity of scientific research and the trustworthiness of published papers.

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AI and CRISPR Precisely Control Gene Expression

Artificial intelligence (AI) can predict on- and off-target activity of CRISPR tools that target RNA instead of DNA, according to new research published in Nature Biotechnology.

The study by researchers at New York University, Columbia Engineering, and the New York Genome Center, combines a deep learning model with CRISPR screens to control the expression of human genes in different ways - such as flicking a light switch to shut them off completely or by using a dimmer knob to partially turn down their activity.

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UK AI Receives Widespread Recognition for NHS Waiting List Impact

NHS technology provider C2-Ai has been recognised at four high-profile UK healthcare and technology awards on a single night, after surgical teams across dozens of hospitals delivered significant impact for patients on waiting lists.

Surgeons say they are revolutionising how NHS waiting lists are managed with the help of the UK company’s technology, which is providing staff with an unprecedented understanding of the risks facing every individual patient.

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GPT-3 Informs and Disinforms Us Better

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich delved into the capabilities of AI models, specifically focusing on OpenAI's GPT-3, to determine their potential risks and benefits in generating and disseminating (dis)information. Led by postdoctoral researchers Giovanni Spitale and Federico Germani, alongside Nikola Biller-Andorno, director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME), University of Zurich, the study involving 697 participants sought to

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Consumers More Likely to Use Virtual Apparel Try-On Software if Interactive

While more and more people are shopping online, purchasing clothes on the internet poses a unique challenge: What if it doesn't fit? The apparel industry's latest solution is virtual try-on sessions that allow consumers to share photos or measurements of themselves to create a similar-sized avatar.

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Better and T-Systems to Provide openEHR Medication Management Platform Across Catalonia

Better Meds, the acclaimed electronic prescribing and medication administration (EPMA) solution based on the openEHR standard, will be implemented in over 60 hospitals in Catalonia by a consortium led by T-Systems and Better.

The largest ever single Better Meds project to date will bring Catalan Health Service's (CatSalut) ambition for providing integrated care via a patient and data-centric longitudinal electronic health record one step closer as it establishes its vendor-neutral health data platform and medication management system, which will eventually be available across the whole of Catalonia.

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Sussex Pathology Network to Deploy Clinisys Laboratory Information System

The Sussex Pathology Network has chosen Clinisys for a laboratory information system (LIMS) that will help its labs to collaborate, building on the supportive relationship that developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A single, hosted instance of WinPath Enterprise will replace the existing four live LIMS systems in use at the three trusts and seven laboratories within the network, of which two are at the end of their life.

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