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Advancing Taiwan's Healthcare: AI and Accelerated Computing at NHRI & CGMH
2024 12 Jun
Taiwan’s leading medical centres, the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), are advancing biomedical research and healthcare through the integration of accelerated computing and generative AI. These institutions are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to revolutionise everything from imaging to patient...Read more
UCSF's IMPACC: Revolutionising AI Monitoring for Enhanced Healthcare
2024 04 Jun
The UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) and UCSF Health received a $5 million donation from Ken and Kathy Hao to develop the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC). This platform aims to provide a continuous, real-time, and automated evaluation of AI technologies used in clinical settings,...Read more
Optimising Capacity and Data Liberation for Healthcare Access
2024 30 May
Patient access to healthcare has been a longstanding concern, one that predates the digital revolution and the current challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. It's a multifaceted issue stemming from various factors like affordability, transportation limitations, and the availability of appointments. While the healthcare system grapples with capacity...Read more
Enhancing Specialty Healthcare Access: A Collaborative Model for Virtual Care Delivery
2024 22 May
Access to specialty healthcare in the United States is already strained and projected to worsen due to a significant physician shortage. This is especially pronounced in rural areas. Henry Ford Health, a large metropolitan health system, offers advanced tertiary and quaternary services, but access gaps persist, particularly for complex cases like...Read more
Healthcare AI: Credibility, Safety & Accountability
2024 14 Mar
Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform, highlighted the significant potential benefits and potential harm of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare during HIMSS 2024 . He emphasised the credibility issue in healthcare AI due to the lack of transparency and accountability in AI models. Halamka stressed the importance of strategies...Read more
Industry News
Bayer & Google Cloud Accelerate AI Healthcare Application for Radiologists
2024 09 Apr
Bayer and Google Cloud announced a collaboration on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to support radiologists and ultimately better serve patients. As part of the collaboration, Bayer will further develop its innovation platform to accelerate the development and deployment of AI-powered healthcare applications with a clear...Read more
AWS Announces Powerful New Offerings to Accelerate Generative AI Innovation
2023 28 Sep
Now generally available, Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications, simplifying development while maintaining privacy and security With the addition of Amazon Titan Embeddings and...Read more
ChatGPT Shows ‘Impressive’ Accuracy in Clinical Decision Making
2023 22 Aug
Mass General Brigham research highlights potential for generative AI to increase access and efficiency in healthcare Investigators found ChatGPT to be nearly 72 percent accurate across all medical specialties and phases of clinical care, and 77 percent accurate in making final diagnoses A new study led by investigators from Mass General...Read more
Haleon & Microsoft Use AI to Enhance Health Product Accessibility for Blind or Partially Sighted
2022 12 Oct
– On World Sight Day, Haleon and Microsoft are launching a joint effort to make health products more accessible for people who are blind or have low vision, with artificial intelligence (AI) technology that narrates product labels. – New enhancements in the free Microsoft Seeing AI app will help advance inclusivity and improve accessibility. –...Read more
Huma and AstraZeneca Partner to Accelerate Innovation for Digital-First Patient Care
2022 23 Mar
Huma acquires AstraZeneca’s digital health platform AMAZE™ and AstraZeneca becomes a shareholder of Huma Huma announced a new partnership with AstraZeneca to scale innovation for digital health. This agreement follows prior use cases executed between Huma and AstraZeneca, reflecting a shared ambition to improve clinical outcomes through digital...Read more
Articles
Accepting Chaos
2012 06 Mar
Sir, Jim Quiggle's feature on 'Enterprise Architecture' (Issue 3/4, 2010) needs to be showcased because of two factors, both of which are rare in the IT world: to make a case for the fact that our business is still more art than science, and secondly, that like good artists, we must understand and accept chaos. After all, one of the most cutting-edge...Read more
E-Health on Track According to the European Commission
2009 04 Apr
The European Commission has published an update on its Lead Market Initiative (LMI) for e-health. The report indicates that it is too early to notice any market growth as a result of the LMI activities. E-Health was chosen to be one of the six markets of the LMI due to its market potential in terms of growing demand and market growth opportunities,...Read more
Dark Fibre PC Network-Public Internet Access Points in 5 Hospital
2009 03 Jan
Author Jan Pejchal / ICT Manager,Masaryk Hospital in Usti nad Labem Regional Health Corp. Martin Zeman, Martin Hostas Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic [email protected] Masaryk Hospital in Usti nad Labem Regional Health Corporation (“Krajska zdravotni, a.s.”) consists of 5 hospitals with a long tradition...Read more
Managing Security Access
2008 01 Feb
Author Neil A. Halpern is Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York. Wireless technology offers a viable opportunity to...Read more
Lizards, Dust and Vaccinations
2007 31 Dec
Author John Rigstad Director of Information Services, Medair. ICT is vital to the success of disaster relief operations. However, its implementation is fraught with some unusual challenges, especially for Medair, one of the world’s handful of ISO 9001-certified humanitarian aid organisations. Alongside the...Read more
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