AI
By Afshin Attari, senior director of public sector at Exponential-e Every year, millions of pathology slides are produced in the UK, most still examined manually under a microscope. This century-old process, though reliable, is no longer fit for purpose. Cancer diagnostic backlogs continue to grow, and only 67 per cent of patients are currently meeting [...]
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 [...]
Flok Health has raised US$12.5m to expand its AI physio service for back pain in the UK and overseas. The Cambridge-based health technology company will use the Series A funding to expand its back pain service, add new treatment areas and enter overseas markets. Flok runs an AI-led physiotherapy clinic that offers video-based assessments and [...]
As preventive and longevity medicine becomes more data-rich, physicians are being asked to interpret hundreds of biomarkers, continuous wearable streams, advanced diagnostics and constantly evolving scientific literature, often without a single source of truth across labs, systems, and records. Today, a clinical intelligence platform has been launched to solve that gap. Built for longevity, concierge, functional medicine, [...]
More than 500,000 NHS staff are being given AI tools that could free up around two days a month for patient-facing work. NHS England said it is significantly accelerating AI adoption across healthcare services by giving 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The AI personal assistant helps clinicians draft documents and [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a paper on how health AI could reshape policy-making, setting out both risks and opportunities. The paper examines how AI could affect the way health problems are defined, policy options are designed and the impact of decisions is assessed. It says AI could help policymakers analyse [...]
By Dr Ed Hutchison, clinical solutions specialist, Altera Digital Health AI is now impossible to ignore. You cannot move without seeing some sort of AI advert promising a capability that is going to revolutionise your life. Need a new fridge? It better have inbuilt AI. Need to book a holiday? Why don’t you talk to [...]
UK digital health company Aide Health has launched its first US programme through a new partnership with Temple Health, targeting one of healthcare’s fastest growing and most costly conditions—type 2 diabetes. The collaboration, part of the 2026 Clinical Care Innovation Grant programme funded by Independence Blue Cross (IBX), will support the development of new app [...]
Briya, the healthtech AI company enabling evidence-driven discovery for life sciences and medical research, has announced that it has appointed leading pulmonary physician and epidemiologist Professor Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, as chief epidemiologist. In this role, Prof. Samet will lead the integration of epidemiological methodology directly into the Briya AIRE research engine, supporting Briya’s [...]
A skin-like AI patch can analyse health data on the body in milliseconds without sending information to an external computer. Unlike current wearables that track signals such as heart rate or movement, the device carries out AI calculations directly on the body. Researchers said that could matter in cases such as ventricular fibrillation, where even [...]
