Councils awarded more than £1m for digital innovation in social care ... atients’ data when they are being transferred from hospital into social care and Wolverhampton Council’s intention to use predictive analytics – a mix of statistical analysis techniques and automated machine learning – to help identify the patients most likely to suffer from complex diseases. NHS Digital head of the social care programme James Palmer said the use of predictive analytics has the ‘potential to s ... Date: 21-09-2018 Categories: • News

Government to invest £50m in artificial intelligence technology to improve early cancer detection ... nts and the wider NHS’. He added: ‘Artificial intelligence technology provides significant opportunities to improve diagnostics and therapies as well as reduce administrative costs.  ‘With machine learning, we can use existing data to help clinicians better predict when disease will occur, diagnosing and treating it earlier, and personalising treatments, which will be less resource intensive and provid ... Date: 01-09-2020 Categories: • News

Population health management in action ... ed to contact patients proactively to offer options which can improve health and wellbeing and ultimately reduce GP and hospital usage. The second phase of the social prescribing pilot is training machine learning to apply weighting to the different factors, using historic data, to help link workers make more informed decisions. COPD and machine learning machine learning is also being used in BLMK’s PHM ... Date: 11-01-2023 Categories: • Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes • East of England • Integrated Care Boards

AI rapid research fund to tackle NHS winter crisis ... ct of simulated interventions. This will help guide future policy changes to improve health conditions, reduce inequalities, and in turn reduce pressures on NHS services.’ Another project will use machine learning to predict Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) peaks which can cause serious illness in young children and put pressure on paediatric intensive care units. Dr Mary De Silva, deputy chief scientific ... Date: 24-01-2023 Categories: • News

Chapter 4: Experts from Microsoft, BT and Manchester share AI insights ... rk drawing on the power of generative AI. In the sort of work that has a longer lead time. A great example, is what we've been doing with Northumbria. Where couple of Orthopedic Surgeons have used machine learning techniques on historical data for surgical outcomes for orthopedic surgery, so hip and knee transplants and so on, to produce very individualised patient risk profiles that help anticipate the potent ... Date: 14-12-2023 Categories: • The Rise of the Machines: AI digital and data in healthcare

How Microsoft is using AI in healthcare ... rawing on the power of generative AI. It's the sort of work that has a longer lead time. A great example is what Microsoft has been doing in Northumbria. A couple of orthopaedic surgeons have used machine learning techniques on historical data for surgical outcomes for orthopaedic surgery - hip and knee transplants and so on - to produce very individualised patient risk profiles that help anticipate the potent ... Date: 11-01-2024 Categories: • Insight • Interviews • Views

How digital transformation is working in Greater Manchester ... alled Snowflake, which is our data cloud. And we've got another component, which is Matillion, which is what moves the data around and helps transform the data. We use DataRobot as our enterprise, machine learning and AI tool. We use Tableau to visualise our tools. There’s a whole suite of components in the tool belt. And the idea, from my perspective, was that we didn’t get a vendor lock-in or there wasn’t an ... Date: 25-01-2024 Categories: • Greater Manchester • Insight • Integrated Care Boards • Interviews • North West • Views

Action ‘urgently needed’ to prevent potential AI harm in healthcare ... ‘Our review reveals how existing biases and discrimination in society can unwittingly be incorporated at every stage of the lifecycle of the devices, and then magnified in algorithm development and machine learning.’ The review also looked at biases within optical medical devices, such as pulse oximeters, and polygenic risk scores, which provide a measure of disease risk due to your genes. Date: 12-03-2024 Categories: • News

How AWS is enabling digital transformation in the NHS ... BG: What is AWS doing in terms of digital transformation within healthcare? AJ: We have many different services on AWS and we try to democratise access to those frontier technologies such as AI, machine learning and generative AI. My role and focus at AWS, given my background as a GP, is to really focus on the mission goals of healthcare. We seek to solve the problems that industries and our customers are ex ... Date: 28-05-2024 Categories: • Interviews • Views

Gen-AI at scale: From experimentation to industrialisation   ... t the most promising experiments are nurtured and eventually deployed within the organisation.  LLM Ops Borrowing heavily from and building on the concepts that are at the heart of ML Ops (machine learning operations), LLM Ops (large language model operations) forms the backbone of enterprise-wide LLM adoption and has emerged as a key consideration as organisations look to operationalise LLMs at scale. ... Date: 15-07-2024 Categories: • Insight

AI and machine learning trends in healthcare Healthcare leaders need to stay abreast of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), but that can be a challenge. Data science academic Dr Russell Hunter looks at the top trends that healthcare leaders need to know about as they navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and ... Date: 27-11-2024 Categories: • Insight

AI could provide extra 3.7 million GP appointments per week, says Google ... ush to get appointments.’ It comes as data science academic, Dr Russell Hunter shared the top trends healthcare leaders need to know about as they navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and machine learning. A version of this story was first published on our sister title Pulse. Date: 28-11-2024 Categories: • News

Shift from analogue to digital is the priority, says health secretary ... d the extent to which we can run and lead this system more effectively and efficiently that is around the shift from analogue to digital.’ He added that when he speaks to NHS staff about using AI, machine learning and genomics to help diagnose and treat earlier and to predict and prevent sickness that many ask for more basic technology. ‘What I get from a lot of NHS staff is that it sounds brilliant, but I’ ... Date: 18-12-2024 Categories: • News

AI software tool aims to use high street eye tests to spot dementia risk ... ian University, has collected almost a million eye scans from opticians across Scotland, forming the world’s largest data set of its kind. Scientists will then use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyse the image data, linked to relevant patient data on demographics, treatment history and pre-existing conditions. This data is anonymised so patients cannot be identified, but it all ... Date: 24-01-2025 Categories: • News