Implementing innovation: How advanced analytics and AI are improving patient care

Across the globe, healthcare providers are facing the same three questions. How do we improve patient care? With growing populations, how can we help more people? And how can this be achieved with budgets that have been under pressure? Finding a solution to these questions is increasingly reliant on technology. As a result, the responsibility of addressing these issues is falling to the IT department within healthcare institutions. Once focused solely on ‘keeping the lights on', IT has...

8 January 2018 | Healthcare

Nvidia, GE Healthcare, and Nuance harness AI to improve radiology

Nvidia, GE Healthcare, and Nuance have teamed up to harness the power of AI in a bid to improve the vital area of medical imaging. Medical imaging is so important because it offers a way to pick up and detect problems as early as possible without intrusive methods. GE Healthcare and Nuance have chosen to partner with Nvidia for use of their deep learning platform. Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA, said: “Medical imaging is an essential tool for delivering the best...

27 November 2017 | Healthcare

DeepHeart uses consumer wearables to detect sleep apnea and hypertension – diabetes is the next target

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DeepHeart, an AI for cardiac health, is using consumer wearables to reduce the number of people with hypertension and sleep apnea who go undetected. According to the World Health Organisation, 1.1 billion people have chronic high blood pressure — known as hypertension. Of these individuals, one in five are undiagnosed. Meanwhile, sleep apnea — where disturbances are caused by having one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep — is a problem with around 24...

14 November 2017 | Healthcare

GP at Hand: AI enables the world’s first 24/7 free healthcare service

AI is a key enabler in the launch of GP at Hand, a free NHS service from babylon health which provides 24/7 access to healthcare from a mobile app. GP at Hand aims to reduce the burden on GPs while also cutting the waiting time it takes for a patient to see a doctor from the current average of two weeks, to just a matter of minutes. Dr Howard Freeman MBE, senior GP said: “GP at Hand is a window into what the NHS of the future will look like. When innovative NHS GPs embrace babylon...

6 November 2017 | Healthcare

Nuance launches AI-powered virtual assistant for healthcare providers

US-based Nuance Communications has launched the new AI-powered “Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant” especially for healthcare providers. The solution takes root from the award-winning Nuance Virtual Assistant platform, and is a great help for medics as it streamlines a wide range of clinical workflows. Over 500,000 clinicians in the US are already depended on the Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant for their day-to-day documentation. The solution delivers sophisticated conversational...

28 September 2017 | Healthcare

Cancer-diagnosing AI raises $30 million by London investor

SOPHiA GENETICS, a company which specialises in data-driven medicine, has raised $30 million with the help of London-based Balderton Capital to advance its cancer-diagnosing AI. The company was founded in 2011 by academics from Stanford University and Switzerland. SOPHiA provides software to analyse genomic profiles and diagnose patients to over 330 hospitals in more than 50 countries. “Since inception, our vision has been to develop innovative technological solutions to help patients,...

13 September 2017 | Healthcare

Health AIs should be a strategic priority

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A UK government-commissioned industrial strategy review of the life sciences sector has identified health-based AI as a growth opportunity.

The UK is a leader in artificial intelligence while also benefiting from a wealth of patient data as part of its National Health Service. Both of these factors make the UK a potential hotbed for the development of health-focused AI. “AI is likely to be used widely in healthcare and it should be the...

31 August 2017 | Healthcare

AI can predict conditions such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia

The potential for AI to diagnose and even predict the onset of serious medical conditions is being demonstrated in pioneering research. More reliable predictions Starting with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, a new algorithm is able to predict its onset with 84 percent accuracy. The author of the research, Sulantha Sanjeewa, a computer scientist at McGill University in Canada, believes it could help to slow or one day even stop the onset of debilitating symptoms which...

30 August 2017 | Healthcare

AI uses radio waves to diagnose sleep disorders

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Researchers have developed an AI-based algorithm to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of sleep disorders using radio waves. Good sleep is vital for our mental and physical wellbeing. Diagnosing problems today, however, can be difficult as it requires patients to be fitted with electrodes and various sensors. The researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital used an AI algorithm to analyse radio signals around a subject. These readings are translated into the stages of sleep:...

7 August 2017 | Healthcare

Clarifai launches mobile SDK to help make AI available on devices

Clarifai, a visual recognition AI company, has launched its mobile SDK, which enables mobile users to install machine learning capabilities into their devices. The SDK does not require large computing power in the mobile device or continuous internet connectivity increasing the reach of latest AI technology to everyone. It is powered by Clarifai’s Custom Training that enables machine learning algorithms to learn new concepts from very few examples. The mobile SDK enables mobile devices...

28 July 2017 | Healthcare