AI
GP practices across Wales are being invited to a new webinar exploring the practical role AI could play in supporting primary care teams as they manage rising workloads and continued digital transformation. Improving Clinical Coding in Wales with BetterLetter will take place on Wednesday 23 September, from 12pm to 12.45pm BST. The free session will [...]
AI scribes used by doctors may miss body language and other non-verbal cues that can contain clinically important information, a review has warned. The technology converts spoken consultations into text and generates summaries, but researchers said it cannot capture gestures, facial expressions, movement or emotional cues. Academics at the University of Edinburgh raised [...]
Elucid has raised US$55m in Series D financing to expand its AI cardiovascular imaging platforms and advance BioIntegrated FFR-CT through FDA clearance. The Boston-based medical technology company said the oversubscribed round brings its total funding to approximately US$185m. The funding will support commercial expansion of Elucid's clinical platforms, further research and development, clinical studies and [...]
The programme is the first major initiative under a partnership between the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). Innovative technologies will be deployed and tested in real NHS settings, generating evidence on how they perform with patients and clinicians in day-to-day practice. The programme aims to assess [...]
Clementine has raised €1.7m in seed funding to deepen its AI hearing care platform and expand partnerships with clinics and healthcare organisations. The Maastricht-based start-up has developed technology designed to help hearing clinics turn prospective patients into bookings. Founded in 2024 by founder and chief executive Vince van de Weijer, Clementine, also known as ClementineAI, [...]
AI models developed using one million health-related Reddit threads matched human raters, suggesting they could support faster mental health triage. Researchers spent two years building a database of mental health narratives and training two AI models, PaLM 2 and AutoML, to analyse real-world accounts shared on Reddit. They linked language used in the posts to [...]
Onos Health has raised US$17m in Series A financing as it expands an AI platform designed to help health plans assess behavioural health care. The San Francisco company develops clinical intelligence technology for payers, using artificial intelligence to analyse healthcare claims, utilisation and clinical documentation. Its platform is designed to give health plans greater visibility [...]
London surgeons have performed what health officials described as the first successful AI-assisted brain tumour operation, helping save a patient's sight. The surgery was carried out in May on 48-year-old Rhys Hibbert, who had an 11mm tumour on his pituitary gland and faced losing his sight without an operation, health officials said. During the procedure, [...]
By Dr Neil Panchal, co-founder & CMO, Longevitix One of my patients, a 52-year-old training for her first triathlon, had fourteen months of wearable data on file. Every value sat within normal range. The AI layer in our platform flagged what a range check would never catch: a slow rise in resting heart rate alongside [...]
A digital tool could identify future health risks in people with learning disabilities and support earlier action to prevent avoidable deaths, researchers say. Using information including age, sex and existing health conditions, the tool indicates which conditions a person may be more likely to develop and when, based on patterns seen in people with similar [...]
