NHS
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Nvidia Aims to Simplify AI Adoption Process for Cincinnati Children’s, UCSF
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.
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Google’s DeepMind faces suit over access to NHS patient records
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.
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Report: NHS Covid-19 app failed to alert users of potential exposure
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.
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Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Babylon Health, physician tussle over triage chatbot’s safety
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.”
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Payers
NHS invests $300M in the development of new AI capabilities
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.
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Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Health Services, Health Tech
London-based Babylon Health raises $550 million megaround
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.
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Amazon partners with the NHS to bring Alexa to patients
The NHS pitches the service as being especially useful to elderly patients, blind patients and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means.
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Centene bolsters its European presence with expanded stake in Spanish company
The deal increases Centene’s ownership of the Spanish provider Ribera Salud from 50 percent to 90 percent.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Drugmakers partner with England’s NHS in $1.3B hepatitis C push
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.
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Health IT, Artificial Intelligence
Insights and recommendations from Eric Topol’s NHS report
Topol’s report posits a more individualized, patient-centered system driven by a population empowered by personal genomic and health information.