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AI Tool Outperforms Human Emergency Call Handlers in Identifying Stroke, New Study Shows

A team of researchers from Denmark have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework to address the number of strokes that go unrecognised by human emergency call handlers.(1) The framework outperformed emergency call handlers in recognising stroke for both sexes and across all age groups studied, indicating its potential as a supplementary tool for early and precise stroke identification in the future.

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ChatGPT Passes Radiology Board Exam

The latest version of ChatGPT passed a radiology board-style exam, highlighting the potential of large language models but also revealing limitations that hinder reliability, according to two new research studies published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses a deep learning model to recognize patterns and relationships between words in its vast training data to generate human-like responses based on a prompt.

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Orion Health Welcomes New Sales Director for Scotland

Orion Health has appointed a new sales director for Scotland. Gabriel Radford, who has a background in business development for companies working with health, social care, and local government, will support customers and help them to develop their digital care records.

Scotland has made a significant investment in technology to integrate health and social care data.

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Siemens Healthineers Opens State-of-the-Art Education and Development Center in Erlangen, Germany

Siemens Healthineers has opened its new Education & Development Center (EDC) in Erlangen. The open-plan building offers space for the currently 240 trainees and integrated degree program participants in Erlangen and Forchheim. In addition, the new center houses training courses for customers and in-house specialists around 150 participants and users can be trained daily on medical devices.

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AI Voice Coach Shows Promise in Depression, Anxiety Treatment

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be a useful tool in mental health treatment, according to the results of a new pilot study led by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.

The study, which was the first to test an AI voice-based virtual coach for behavioral therapy, found changes in patients’ brain activity along with improved depression and anxiety symptoms after using Lumen, an AI voice assistant that delivered a form of psychotherapy.

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Make a Step Towards Sustainable Digital Healthcare Ecosystem at AUTOMA+ 2023

25 - 26 September 2023, Zurich, Switzerland.
Executive opening panel dedicated to the sustainable digital healthcare ecosystem is the highlight of Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress 2023. The Congress is held on September, 25-26, 2023, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Executive opening panel is an opening session of the first day of the Congress. Leading players of the healthcare industry share professional experience on how digitalization in healthcare affects sustainability.

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New Algorithm can Predict Diabetic Kidney Disease

Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a computational approach to predict whether a person with type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease, a frequent and dangerous complication of diabetes. Their results, published in Nature Communications, could help doctors prevent or better manage kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes.

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AI could Improve Heart Attack Diagnosis to Reduce Pressure on Emergency Departments

An algorithm developed using artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be used by doctors to diagnose heart attacks with better speed and accuracy than ever before, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and published today in Nature Medicine [1].

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Better than Humans: AI in Intensive Care Units

In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) will play an important role in medicine. In diagnostics, successful tests have already been performed: for example, the computer can learn to categorise images with great accuracy according to whether they show pathological changes or not. However, it is more difficult to train an AI to examine the time-varying conditions of patients and to calculate treatment suggestions

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Could Online Gaming Social Networks Have a Positive Impact on Mental Health?

For millions of Americans playing some type of video game is a daily occurrence. Games can be a welcome form of entertainment and relaxation for many, and the internet can even make gaming a social activity. However, excessive video game playing to the point of isolation, addiction or changes in mood or behavior are growing concerns with this pastime. These possible negative effects may also contribute to anxiety and depression in some people and gaming may have varying effects on social connections.

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