Whilst at Web Summit, we met up with John Klepper, co-founder and CEO of PIPRA (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment), a Zurich-based medtech company that has developed its first product; an AI-based surgical tool to assess a patients’ risk of suffering from postoperative delirium. Hi John! Thanks for meeting us. Can […]
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Journal explores European validation of AI risk model for individualised breast cancer
A journal published last month in The Lancet Regional Health Europe explores “the discriminatory performances of an AI-based risk model in European screening settings”, with a nested case-control study finding that the AI risk model “showed generalizable discriminatory performances across European populations and, predicted ∼30% of clinically relevant stage 2 […]
Health in the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy
Here, we take a look at the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy, Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria 2030 (AIM AT 2030), which is “the result of an extensive stakeholder process in which more than 160 experts from different disciplines were involved”, to consider its provisions for the use of AI in […]
European Council and Parliament reach agreement on Artificial Intelligence Act
The European Council has announced that an agreement had been reached between the Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, with the draft regulation aiming to ensure the safety of AI systems brought to the European market, as well as to “stimulate investment and […]
Californian company RapidAI announces launch of new clinical decision support platform
RapidAI, a Californian AI and tech company, has announced milestones in advancing deep clinical AI, including the launch of a new AI healthcare platform and an AI solution to help identify suspected stroke cases at CT. The company is celebrating the launch of its new AI-based healthcare platform, Rapid Edge […]
MEPs reach agreement with European Council on Artificial Intelligence Act
MEPs have reached an agreement with the European Council on the contents of the new Artificial Intelligence Act, which aims to make Europe a world leader in AI innovation, whilst ensuring that “fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability are protected from high risk AI”. The new […]