Thursday, September 19, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published two reports, in collaboration with a range of other stakeholders including INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), considering the threat of cyber-attack and disinformation on healthcare, and identifying ways to strengthen health security. In the first of the […]
A new EU-funded five-year project, “PAIR”, has been launched in the hopes of improving point-of-care (POC) diagnostics and epidemiological modelling, bringing together 20 partners from seven countries with the aim of helping Europe to develop expertise and capabilities in this area based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Utilising the […]
Yesterday (4 February) integrated health delivery system Northern Light Health in Maine, USA, reported that patient record systems have been taken offline as of Saturday 3 February, as monitoring systems indicated that a number of computer services had become compromised. Northern Light Health states that whilst none of the affected […]
Finnish health tech company CardioSignal has announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding for their tech to promote early detection of heart diseases, with the investment intended to help scale the solution and pursue further clinical validation. The company’s patented technology uses one clinical modality without […]
An article published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence has explored knowledge, perceptions, and the current state of AI and machine learning (ML) in Nigerian healthcare. Findings show that the majority of Nigerian healthcare professionals report “good knowledge” on AI and ML, and that a significant majority felt that the use […]
Here, we take a deep dive into the state of digital in health in Saudi Arabia, looking specifically at progress toward the nation’s Vision 2030 for health, the newly-released National Biotechnology Strategy, the Saudi Genome Program, and the latest on wider digital transformation. Vision 2030 Vision 2030 marks a national […]
New hope for early pancreatic cancer intervention via AI-based risk prediction MIT CSAIL researchers develop advanced machine-learning models that outperform current methods in detecting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL – MIT News Researchers from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have collaborated with Limor Appelbaum, a scientist from the […]
Here, we take a look at the Royal Government of Cambodia’s “Cambodia Digital Government Policy for 2022-2035”, to see what insights it offers into digital health and health priorities for the years ahead. The policy documents state that “successful digital transformation is the main foundation for the Royal Government to […]
We recently sat down for a chat with Ricardo Baptista Leite about the potential and considerations for artificial intelligence, key learnings from his career and his thoughts on the digital health landscape in Portugal. Along with his background as a medical doctor, Ricardo has experience in a number of settings […]
My Home Hospital, a South Australian service offering treatment for patients in Adelaide as well as the regions around Gawler, Mount Barker, and the Southern Fleurieu, has delivered care to 10,000 patients, with patients sharing that the service “made such a difference”. Delivered by Calvary and Amplar Health, the service […]
