Safer care
iAM Compliant, a provider of compliance and estates management platforms, has announced the launch of iAM Medical, a new feature designed to help schools and multi-academy trusts manage pupil healthcare information, medication and medical incidents in one secure digital environment. Now available to all customers and new iAM Compliant customers within the iAM Compliant Advanced [...]
AI scribes used by doctors may miss body language and other non-verbal cues that can contain clinically important information, a review has warned. The technology converts spoken consultations into text and generates summaries, but researchers said it cannot capture gestures, facial expressions, movement or emotional cues. Academics at the University of Edinburgh raised [...]
A digital tool could identify future health risks in people with learning disabilities and support earlier action to prevent avoidable deaths, researchers say. Using information including age, sex and existing health conditions, the tool indicates which conditions a person may be more likely to develop and when, based on patterns seen in people with similar [...]
NHS digital safety gaps could expose patients to harm as the 10 Year Health Plan drives adoption of AI and other technologies, experts have warned. An analysis found widespread gaps in compliance with statutory clinical safety standards designed to ensure digital health technologies undergo formal risk assessment. Previous survey data covering 14,848 technologies in NHS [...]
Australian healthcare software firm Modeus has taken its HS8 electronic controlled drug register into the NHS, with Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust becoming the latest site to begin replacing paper registers with the platform. The Melbourne-headquartered company, which has spent more than two decades building paperless medication management software for pharmacies, hospitals and aged care [...]
The Liberal Democrats have urged Andy Burnham to halt Health Bill changes, warning they could lead to a “bonfire of patient safety”. Healthwatch England, an independent body representing patients' views at their local health and social care providers, is set to be scrapped under the NHS Modernisation Bill. The Health Service Safety Investigation Bureau, or [...]
More than 200 deaths suspected of being linked to weight-loss jabs have been reported to the MHRA, alongside more than 158,000 adverse reactions. Anyone who suspects an adverse reaction is linked to a medicine can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s Yellow Card Scheme. Data from the scheme show 106,189 adverse [...]
AI-generated doctors are attracting millions of TikTok views by sharing dubious health advice, raising concerns about risks to public safety. Experts said the accounts shared disproven cancer claims, fake products and unverified remedies while presenting themselves as medical professionals. Most of the AI-generated health content was posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts [...]
Unregulated drugs sold online are creating a “wild west” in the UK, with experts warning deaths could follow without action. A leading endocrinology expert has warned that experimental peptides, anabolic steroids and other substances are being normalised through online sales and social media. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, [...]
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is launching the MDClone Ask, Discover, Act, Measure and Share (ADAMS) platform in July, giving clinicians and approved teams easier access to data to support improvement, research and more informed care for patients. Its synthetic data capability will also reduce the need to use real patient data in many [...]
