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A woman using the SkinVision app to scan a mole on her arm
24 September 2019

App’s skin cancer detection capability ‘well above that of GPs’

Researchers determined that the SkinVision app had a sensitivity of 95% in detecting the most common forms of the disease
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The face of Google's headquarters in the UK
20 September 2019

Google Health ties up data agreements with NHS trusts

Five NHS trusts have transferred data processing agreements over to Google following the tech giant’s acquisition of British AI firm
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12 September 2019

Google and others ‘not interested in electronic patient record market’

Google's Cloud advisor said that too much money had been invested in EPR systems to give Google and rival tech
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A panel of healthcare representatives at Intelligent Health in Basel
12 September 2019

Healthcare representatives share AI qualms at Intelligent Health

A panel of health system managers, clinicians and policymakers discussed the pain points surrounding AI in healthcare at a dedicated
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Microsoft's corporate VP of healthcare, Dr Peter Lee
11 September 2019

‘Startling advances’ in natural language processing will ease paper burden

Peter Lee from Microsoft said that advances in machine learning models meant that consumer-facing translation platforms could be repurposed for
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10 September 2019

Twenty companies inducted into DigitalHealth.London accelerator programme

The innovations address several challenges faced by the NHS including workflow management; access to services; and decision support.
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Healthcare staff speaks to a female patient at the reception of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
9 September 2019

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals gets £67k to run outpatients analytics project

Machine learning software will be used track 32 million outpatient datasets with the aim of creating a roadmap to support
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A person using Cognetivity's iPad test
9 September 2019

Using AI assessment to tackle dementia in ultra-early stages

Dementia remains the leading cause of death in England and Wales. As the NHS faces one of the biggest health
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3 September 2019

Artificial intelligence ‘predicts fatal heart attacks up to 5 years in advance’

Experts at the University of Oxford have developed a “fingerprint” using machine learning, which highlights red flag signs of potential
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24 December 2018

British Heart Foundation award £500k funding to data science projects

The charity, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, is handing out the money to six projects which aim to
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