Safer care
The programme will explore whether AI can improve the assessment of accuracy and safety, better predict risks, and detect effects that existing approaches may not capture. Adverse drug reactions lead to around 250,000 hospital admissions in the UK each year and cost the NHS more than £2bn annually. Around 90 per cent of medicines fail [...]
Spark TSL and CardMedic today announced a formal partnership that will see CardMedic's industry-leading translation and interpretation software integrated as the clinical communication solution within Spark TSL's Spark Fusion patient engagement devices. Spark TSL is the UK's leading supplier of patient entertainment and WiFi infrastructure to the NHS. CardMedic is the leading provider of innovative [...]
Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]
Emergency medical service SAMU de Paris has achieved an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate four times the global average, through a rescue therapy called ECPR. Previously largely confined to hospitals, deployment on Paris streets has been supported in part with the help of handheld ultrasound technology and AR glasses from international health tech company Mindray. [...]
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has acquired CareBrain, a "technology transformation platform" for the care sector. QCS is a digital provider of compliance, care management and learning for the care sector, suporting over 335,000 care providers and staff across more than 7,200 care locations. Nikki Walker, CEO at QCS, said: “CareBrain has developed an [...]
NEX Health Intelligence has raised €1m in pre-seed funding to develop AI that predicts hospital infection spread before it moves between patients and wards. The company applies artificial intelligence and advanced mathematical modelling to help hospitals detect, predict and prevent highly resistant infections before they spread between patients and wards. Founded in 2022 [...]
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) and Altera Digital Health have unveiled the results of a digital transformation that has optimised the Acute Abdomen Pathway. By embedding National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) guidance into WWL's Altera Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform, the trust has achieved significant improvements in patient outcomes, [...]
By Samit Kumar Biswas, CEO & founder, Care Safe The UK faces an unprecedented care crisis. More than 15 million people live with mobility challenges, and an ageing population is placing growing pressure on already stretched health and social care services. While artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in medical imaging, drug discovery, and virtual health [...]
Alesi Surgical, a surgical technology company tackling surgical smoke in operating theatres, has successfully closed a £7m funding round led by IW Capital and supported by existing shareholders, IP Group and Mercia Ventures. The funding will support international commercial expansion and further development of Alesi’s Ultravision2 platform as regulation around smoke control tightens. Dr Dominic [...]
By Professor Henrietta Hughes, patient safety commissioner and deputy chair of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare This article first appeared on MedRegs: An official blog of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era, with the potential to reshape the world [...]
