Healthcare organizations tend to view issues in pockets – how they are impacting their specific organization and region – but patient safety is a collective mission. No matter what hospital or health system they are in, or which care model they belong to, patients everywhere deserve safer care.
Nvidia unveiled new tools designed to make it easier for hospitals to integrate AI models related to medical imaging into their clinical workflows. The tools have been adopted by major cloud infrastructure providers, as well as healthcare providers and AI software companies. Some of these include Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, England’s National Health Service and Qure.ai.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
London-based firm Mishcon de Reya said it filed a claim in the U.K.’s High Court, alleging that Google’s access of 1.6 million people’s medical records broke privacy rules. NHS’ Royal Free London had struck an agreement with DeepMind in 2015 to build a system for alerting clinicians.
In a Thursday blog post, officials shared that the app’s “risk threshold” had been lowered to account for exposure to people when they are most infectious. The update was supposed to take place when the app was launched in late September.
Babylon Health, a London-based startup, faced concerns raised by an oncologist about results generated by its triage chatbot. The company brushed off the complaints as tests from a “Twitter troll.”
Separately, the next-generation sequencing manufacturer will also work with Genomics England to sequence up to 300,000 people over the next five years.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
The National AI lab is meant to support clinicians in efforts to estimate future needs of healthcare resources, identify the best sites of care for patients and help automate routine and administrative tasks to increase system efficiency.
The multinational cohort of investors was led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and included participation by global reinsurance company Munich Re, Swedish investment firm Kinnevik AB and Vostok New Ventures.
The NHS pitches the service as being especially useful to elderly patients, blind patients and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means.
The deal increases Centene's ownership of the Spanish provider Ribera Salud from 50 percent to 90 percent.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
NHS said it hopes to make England the first country to eliminate HCV. The effort will involve finding people living with the virus and providing drugs procured from AbbVie, Gilead and Merck.
The funding round was led by Signals Venture Capital and included participation by Talis Capital, Mutschler Ventures, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and Cavalry Ventures.
Topol's report posits a more individualized, patient-centered system driven by a population empowered by personal genomic and health information.