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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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Smartphone App may Support Drinkers Who Overindulge to Drink Less Heavily

Access to a smartphone alcohol intervention app helped university students to cut down their overall alcohol consumption and the number of days they drank heavily, suggests a study published in The BMJ.

Unhealthy drinking is the biggest risk factor to health for 15 to 49-year olds, and unhealthy use of alcohol is especially prevalent among adult students, prompting the authors to design a smartphone app to encourage healthier drinking among this group.

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AI Model Developed by Brigham Researchers could Help Screen for Heart Defect

The AI model was more efficient at detecting signatures of atrial septal defect (ASD) in electrocardiograms (ECG) than traditional methods.

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and Keio University in Japan have developed a deep learning artificial intelligence model to screen electrocardiogram (ECG) for signs of atrial septal defects (ASD).

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How Old Are You, Really? AI can Tell Your True Age by Looking at Your Chest

What if "looking your age" refers not to your face, but to your chest? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model that utilizes chest radiographs to accurately estimate a patient's chronological age. More importantly, when there is a disparity, it can signal a correlation with chronic disease.

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Study Proposes Use of AI to Diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder

Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still a daunting challenge because of the degree of complexity involved, requiring highly specialized professionals. Autism is a multifactorial neurodevelopment disorder with widely varying symptoms. In the United States, about 1 in 36 children have been diagnosed with ASD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and yet there are no biochemical markers to identify it with precision.

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Digital Puzzle Games could be Good for Memory in Older Adults

Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study has shown.

The study, from the University of York, also found that adults aged 60 and over who play digital puzzle games had a greater ability to ignore irrelevant distractions, but older adults who played strategy games did not show the same improvements in memory or concentration.

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