Google Health ties up data agreements with NHS trusts
Five NHS trusts have transferred data processing agreements over to Google following the tech giant’s acquisition of British AI firm DeepMind last year.
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Google and others ‘not interested in electronic patient record market’
Google’s Cloud advisor said that too much money had been invested in EPR systems to give Google and rival tech giants a window to the market.
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Healthcare representatives share AI qualms at Intelligent Health
A panel of health system managers, clinicians and policymakers discussed the pain points surrounding AI in healthcare at a dedicated event in Basel.
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‘Startling advances’ in natural language processing will ease paper burden
Peter Lee from Microsoft said that advances in machine learning models meant that consumer-facing translation platforms could be repurposed for healthcare.
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Twenty companies inducted into DigitalHealth.London accelerator programme
The innovations address several challenges faced by the NHS including workflow management; access to services; and decision support.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals gets £67k to run outpatients analytics project
Machine learning software will be used track 32 million outpatient datasets with the aim of creating a roadmap to support staff and improve patient care.
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Using AI assessment to tackle dementia in ultra-early stages
Dementia remains the leading cause of death in England and Wales. As the NHS faces one of the biggest health crises of its generation, could artificial intelligence be key to fundamentally changing how – and when – the condition is diagnosed? Owen Hughes reports.
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Artificial intelligence ‘predicts fatal heart attacks up to 5 years in advance’
Experts at the University of Oxford have developed a “fingerprint” using machine learning, which highlights red flag signs of potential heart attacks.
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British Heart Foundation award £500k funding to data science projects
The charity, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, is handing out the money to six projects which aim to transform heart and circulatory diagnosis.
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Amazon’s new machine learning tool to decode unstructured medical data
Amazon Comprehend Medical is capable of reading clinical notes, prescriptions and audio transcripts and decoding the information contained within it.
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