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The hinderance and motivations of chatbot services in healthcare

A new study conducted by a group of researchers from the University of Westminster, University College London, and the University of Southampton published in Digital Health found that while most internet users are open to the idea of health chatbots, their hesitancy towards new technologies is keepi

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AI and advanced regenerative medicine in Japan

A Japanese woman in her forties is believed to be the first in the World to have her cornea repaired with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Announced at a press conference on 29 August, Dr. Kohji Nishida, an ophthalmologist from Osaka University, Japan said his research team reprogrammed

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NHS Expo 2019: Going back to basics and celebrate early adopters

Apart from funding, Brexit and prospects of the new national artificial intelligence (AI) lab, fellow policymakers, healthcare professionals, as well as business executives also emphasized on the significance of infrastructure, data and workforce training in digitization of healthcare, during the NH

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NHS Expo 2019: Prospects of UK’s new AI lab

Dr. Simon Eccles, Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for Health and Care of UK’s National Health Service (NHS) said the new national artificial intelligence (AI) lab will engage in “rigorous” testing of new technologies to see if they can deliver scalable benefits to the public health sy

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NHS Expo 2019: AI, Funding and Brexit

Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of National Health Service (NHS) England called for more funding to support the UK government’s recent backing of £250 million to set up a new National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory. In his keynote speech made yesterday (4 September) at the NHS Health and Car

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A Turing Test for Medical AI

The Turing Test was introduced by the famous English mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist, Alan Turing in his 1950 paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. During his stint at the University of Manchester, Turing wanted to know “Can machines think?”  However, as “th

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Don’t miss AIMed Australia this November

As we are counting down towards AIMed Europe 2019 taking place between 17 and 19 September in London (you may read the event agenda hereand book your ticket on the AIMed Europe Official Site), AIMed will also like to bring your attention to AIMed Australia, hosting for the very first

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The pros and cons of increased reliance on online medical advice

Benenden Health, a UK healthcare insurance agency revealed recently that for the past one year, there were over 100 million health-related Google searches being made within the country. Of which, self-diagnosis appeared to be more frequently occurred in London; comprising of 23% of all search enquir

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