The UK Department of Health and Social Care announced that Qure.ai has been selected as one of the winners of the Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, sponsored by the UK government. Qure.ai is a 5-year-old Sequoia-funded company builds Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered solutions to facilitate identification and treatment of stroke and head injuries.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of a device to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Cognoa ASD Diagnosis Aid is a machine learning-based software intended to help health care providers diagnose ASD in children 18 months through 5 years of age who exhibit potential symptoms of the disorder.

Black Country Pathology Services has worked with CliniSys to create the ICE Portal, a web-based application that makes it easy for care homes, or other community care settings, to be able to order lab based COVID-19 tests and see the results.

Highland Marketing's advisory board welcomed Jane Brightman, social care lead at Institute of Health and Social Care Management, to discuss the sector and its technology needs. A lot of hope is being pinned on integrated care systems, but when it comes to joining up health and care systems and putting the underpinning IT in place, cultural, structural and funding challenges remain.

Cool Clinical announced the release of the publication on the first Artificial Intelligence system for predicting outcomes of cancer treatment, using data from clinical trials. This is a breakthrough for AI approaches to cancer treatment, because clinical trial data are widely available; this research therefore shows the way for precision medicine systems for cancer which are very feasible to develop.

The COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world last year is still spreading rapidly across the globe, putting a strain on the health care system. Currently, there are 22,106,557 COVID-19 infected patients in need of some specific rehabilitation therapies.

VR4REHAB organizes an audition process that will see some of Europe's best developers compete to create products that use virtual reality, augmented reality, and digital technology to help rehabilitate people who have suffered from COVID-19.

The Master of Digital Health, MDH (formerly - Master of Medical Informatics, MMI) at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) - a branch of the Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences (DIT) in Bavaria, Germany - is now accepting applications for entry in October 2021.