Welcome to your daily digital health briefing, where we bring you the latest news, insights, and events from the digital health world. Stay informed and stay ahead.
👇 News
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The use of NHS Health Call’s digital remote monitoring technology in care homes has been found to reduce hospital A&E attendances by 11% and emergency admissions by 25% in a
new study from the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Better Care programme.
Researchers looked at the impact of using the Health Call app for 8,702 residents in 118 care homes across the North East of England between 2018 and 2021.
💥 A ransomware attack against Romanian healthcare institutions earlier this week initially took 25 hospitals offline.
Security Week has reported the number has increased to 100 hospitals that have resorted to using pen and paper following a “file-encrypting ransomware attack on a widely used healthcare management system”.
👩⚕️ With the growing popularity of large language model (LLM) chatbots, a type of AI used by ChatGPT, Google Bard, and BingAI, it is important to outline the accuracy of musculoskeletal health information they provide.
Three new studies presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons analysed the validity of the information chatbots gave to patients for certain orthopaedic procedures, assessing the accuracy of how chatbots present research advancements and clinical decision making.
🧪 Hevolution Foundation, a global nonprofit organisation that provides grants and early-stage investments to incentivise research and entrepreneurship in healthspan science, is announcing 49 new awards under its pioneering
Hevolution Foundation – Geroscience Research Opportunities
(HF-GRO) program.
🏥 The London Clinic, a UK private hospital, has opened a new Rapid Diagnostics Centre in London’s world-renowned medical district, at 142-146 Harley Street.
❓ Did you know that
The NHS in England directly employs 1.7 million people (equivalent to 1.5 million full-time staff), with employee costs accounting for around two-thirds of NHS providers’ expenditure, according to
the Nuffield Trust.
According to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, the projected demand for staff by 2036/37 will be in the region of 2.3-2.4 million
and, if met, an estimated 1-in-11 of all workers in England will work for the NHS, compared to 1-in-17 now.
📖 What we’re reading
Local authorities have influence on the different building blocks of health in their communities, ranging from education and housing to air quality, availability of affordable and nutritious food and access to green spaces.
Better use of data can support health in a range of ways, says the Health Foundation’s Ellen Coughlan in this blog.
🚨 This week’s events
15 February, online – Reuters Webinar:
Breaking Barriers: Advance Health Data Interoperability for Seamless Collaboration in Care Delivery
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15-16 February, London –
International Conference on Digital Healthcare 2024
