Repurposing Existing Drugs to Fight New COVID-19 Variants

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers are using big data and AI to identify current drugs that could be applied to treat new COVID-19 variants.

Finding new ways to treat the novel coronavirus and its ever-changing variants has been a challenge for researchers, especially when the traditional drug development and discovery process can take years.

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AI may Improve Suicide Prevention in the Future

The loss of any life can be devastating, but the loss of a life from suicide is especially tragic.

Around nine Australians take their own life each day, and it is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15 - 44. Suicide attempts are more common, with some estimates stating that they occur up to 30 times as often as deaths.

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Global Connections for Sustainable Telehealth

6 - 7 November 2022, San Jose, USA.
The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) organizes a new event in San Jose, CA, USA on November 6th and 7th, focusing on "Global Connections for Sustainable Telehealth".

Through its members and partners, the ISfTeH global network represents a vast amount of experience and good practice in telehealth service implementation and solution development.

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A Simple Online Calculator Detects Liver Cirrhosis Patients at High Risk for Clinical Complications

Researchers at CeMM, the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni Vienna), and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (LBI-RUD) joined efforts to use their expertise in machine learning and management of patients with cirrhosis to develop a non-invasive algorithm that can help clinicians to identify patients with cirrhosis at highest risk for severe complications.

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Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap of Trustworthy AI

This document is the first version of the Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap of the TAILOR project, focussed on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) through Learning, Optimization and Reasoning. The project objectives are extremely ambitious, and address topics that are currently very actively investigated. Therefore, defining a roadmap is itself an ambitious goal. We have started analysing many documents containing Roadmaps and Research and Innovation agendas of AI related initiatives (in particular we have analysed the AI4EU Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and the AI, Data and Robotics PPP Strategic Research Innovation and Deployment Agenda and the AI Watch Index 2021).

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Access to the Care and Health Information Exchange Delivers Benefits for Care Homes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

One of England's best-known shared care records is helping to join-up health and care services by rolling-out access to care homes with the support of its technology provider, Orion Health.

The Care and Health Information Exchange, which operates across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, has been able to offer secure access to care homes after Orion Health incorporated the kind of multi-factor authentication that is increasingly common in banking and commercial services.

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Improving Hospital Stays and Outcomes for Older Patients with Dementia through AI

By using artificial intelligence (AI), Houston Methodist researchers are able to predict hospitalization outcomes of geriatric patients with dementia on the first or second day of hospital admission. This early assessment of outcomes means more timely interventions, better care coordination, more judicious resource allocation, focused care management and timely treatment for these more vulnerable, high-risk patients.

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Machine Learning Creates Opportunity for New Personalized Therapies

Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a computational platform that can predict new and specific metabolic targets in ovarian cancer, suggesting opportunities to develop personalized therapies for patients that are informed by the genetic makeup of their tumors. The study appeared in Nature Metabolism.

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For Start-ups, MEDICA is the Gateway to the World - Programme Highlights: Two Competitions Boast an Exciting Finale

14 - 17 November 2022, Düsseldorf, Germany.
As one of the world's leading medical trade fairs, MEDICA in Düsseldorf presents innovations every year for the entire healthcare workflow, for clinical and outpatients. Among the over 4,200 companies at MEDICA 2022 there will again be several hundred start-ups.

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Public Support Needed to Tackle Racial and other Biases in AI for Healthcare

Members of the public are being asked to help remove biases based on race and other disadvantaged groups in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for healthcare.

Health researchers are calling for support to address how ‘minoritised’ groups, who are actively disadvantaged by social constructs, would not see future benefits from the use of AI in healthcare.

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