According to Science, epidemiologists based at Stanford University and University of California campuses have been requesting contact tracing records and other detailed COVID-19 data from the state and county health authorities to research for ways that will slow down the spread of the novel coronav
Last July, UK National Health Service (NHS) launched a new unit called NHSX with the hope to digitally transform the over 70-year-old free public health system so that both staff and patients can benefit from the latest technology. The press release said NHSX shall assume a diverse set of responsibi
Last week, the London Medical Imaging & Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI Centre) led by King’s College London announced Run:AI, an Israeli startup specializing in the virtualization of AI infrastructure as its new technology provider. According to the press release,
According to a preprint study funded by Kaiser Permanente, one of the major healthcare providers in the US, about 42% of the patients infected with the novel coronavirus will end up in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Data obtained from nine Seattle-area hospitals showed that mortality among those who
Recently, healthcare news website Stat and computation journalism methods platform AppliedXL conducted an analysis to examine COVID-19 related clinical trials registered on the US government database – clinicaltrials.gov. Interventional studies finding potential treatments or preventive strategies a
UK Research and Innovation and Cancer Research UK will be funding more than £11 million in a new artificial intelligence (AI) program for early detection of lung cancer and other thoracic conditions. Fergus Gleeson, Professor of Radiology at the University of Oxford will be the program’s chief inves
Dissemination of best practice is often a slow process, especially in medicine and healthcare where quality and consistency need to be at the highest level possible. However, regardless of how meticulous or skilled individual clinicians are; when put under extreme time and resource pressures, or for
Recently, some hospitals have started deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to decide when patients should begin palliative care. These machines screen patients’ medical records to determine their chances of survival in the coming year. They will then notify their physician-in-charge via emails and
On top of frontline workers, data has also been regarded as a less visible line of defence against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, especially when it comes to answering tricky questions like “what is the best way to identify patients who are potentially at risk of coronavirus infection and result in