Ping and book service for NHS app, Babylon founder’s new AI venture, AI hallucinations, NHS patient data, genAI-powered visit summaries, Scale AI for Montreal, Atos renationalisation?
‘Ping and book’ cancer screening service to launch via NHS App
Digital Health News ~ Tammy Lovell ~ 13/11/2024
Women will be sent invitations for cancer screening via the NHS App as part of a new “ping and book” service, Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England has announced.
Babylon founder Ali Parsa returns with new healthcare AI venture
Digital Health News ~ Jon Hoeksma ~ 12/11/2024
Ali Parsa, the founder of defunct health AI firm Babylon Health is back with new healthcare AI launch Qu, which aims to provide personal digital clinical assistants.
The intractable problem of AI hallucinations
Healthcare Info Security ~ Rashmi Ramesh ~ 13/11/2024
The tech industry is rushing out products to tamp down artificial intelligence models’ propensity to lie faster than you can say “hallucinations.” But many experts caution they haven’t made generative AI ready for scalable, high-precision enterprise use.
UK ‘not maximising the benefits of health data’, says Sudlow review
Digital Health News ~ Tammy Lovell ~ 11/11/2024
A review has called for barriers to accessing NHS patient data to be removed so that it can be used for research to further medical advances.
Are genAI-produced visit summaries the future?
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Miliard ~ 07/11/2024
OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.
GPs face EMIS IT outage at busiest time of the week
Digital Health News ~ Tammy Lovell ~ 05/11/2024
Access was cut off to appointment booking systems and patient records at the one of the busiest times of the week on Monday morning.
Atos sells off a unit as lawmakers ponder nationalization
Healthcare Info Security ~ Akshaya Asokan ~ 05/11/2024
French IT consultancy Atos on Tuesday announced the sale of a power grid consulting and engineering services unit days after some French lawmakers pushed for nationalizing the beleaguered company.
Doctor hit with $500k HIPAA fine: feds worse than hacker
Healthcare Info Security ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 01/11/2024
Under the resolution agreement, the cosmetic surgery practice must pay the $500,000 fine and take steps to improve its data security practices following a breach report submitted to the federal agency on July 27, 2017, involving a ransomware incident affecting 10,229 people.
With Montreal’s Scale AI, hospitals across Canada are testing new AI applications
Canadian Healthcare Technology ~ Dianne Daniel ~ 01/11/2024
Funded by the federal and Quebec governments, Scale AI is on a mission to build a national AI ecosystem by helping organizations to implement real-world applications.
