Welcome to your Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing! ☕
👇 News
🧑💻 Tagomics, a company specializing in disease insight and diagnosis, has secured a £6.7m funding round to further research and product development, with a focus on improving cancer and other diseases’ diagnosis and treatment.
🧠 PREDICT-PD, a groundbreaking research project aimed at identifying individuals at higher risk of Parkinson’s disease, has surpassed 10,000 participants with support from uMed, a health and research technology company.
🏥 Saudi Health has introduced tele-EEG services through the SEHA Virtual Hospital (SVH) to enhance neurological and brain ailment healthcare services throughout Saudi Arabia.
🧑🔬 Diagnexia, in collaboration with Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, is providing expert secondary cancer diagnostics consultations and developing AI tools for diagnostics.
🧒 University of Louisville researchers have developed an AI-powered tool for diagnosing autism in young children, showing 98.5% accuracy in kids as young as two.
❓ Did you know that
Frontier Economics has reported potential benefits of the NHS’ £21m investment in AI tools for reading X-rays and CT scans relating to lung cancer, with the possibility of saving lives and reducing treatment costs.
📖 What we’re reading
AI’s role in enhancing clinical decision support systems within healthcare is reviewed in depth, demonstrating its impact on patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.
🚨 This week’s events
21 February, Westminster Health Forum – The next steps for net zero and sustainability in the NHS
23 February, Westminster Health Forum – Next steps for cancer treatment, prevention and diagnosis in England
