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 Digital staff vacancies at Wirral ‘impacted significantly’ on capacity
Digital Health - (Monday January 27, 2025) Aerial view of NHS Arrowe Park Teaching Hospital buildings (Credit: JSvideos / Shutterstock.com) A shortage of digital healthcare staff at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has “impacted significantly on operational capacity”, according…  A scoping review of privacy and utility metrics in medical synthetic data
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) The use of synthetic data is a promising solution to facilitate the sharing and reuse of health-related data beyond its initial collection while addressing privacy concerns. However, there is still no consensus on a… |
 A systematic review of passive data for remote monitoring in psychosis and schizophrenia
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) There is increasing use of digital tools to monitor people with psychosis and schizophrenia remotely, but using this type of data is challenging. This systematic review aimed to summarise how studies processed and analysed…  Pitchfest finalist Surgery Hero acquired by Sword Health
Digital Health - (Monday January 27, 2025) Digital Health Pitchfest finalist Surgery Hero has been bought by Sword Health.The UK-based innovator in prehabilitation digital health reached the scale-up shortlist of the Pitchfest competition held at Rewired in March 2023.Global AI care firm Sword… |
 AI driven decision support reduces antibiotic mismatches and inappropriate use in outpatient urinary tract infections
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) Urinary tract infections (UTIs) often prompt empiric outpatient antibiotic prescriptions, risking mismatches. This study evaluates the impact of “UTI Smart-Set” (UTIS), an AI-driven decision-support tool, on prescribing patterns and mismatches in a large outpatient…  A systematic review of portable technologies for the early assessment of motor development in infants
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) Early screening and evaluation of infant motor development are crucial for detecting motor deficits and enabling timely interventions. Traditional clinical assessments are often subjective, without fully capturing infants’ “real-world” behavior. This has sparked interest… |
 Understanding Antibody Structure: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners
HIT Consultant - (Monday January 27, 2025) Antibodies are key components of the immune system. They act as the body’s defense system against invading pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. Basically, antibodies are proteins that are formed by the immune system…  Extensive benchmarking of a method that estimates external model performance from limited statistical characteristics
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) Predictive model performance may deteriorate when applied to data sources that were not used for training, thus, external validation is a key step in successful model deployment. As access to patient-level external data sources… |
 Towards evaluating and building versatile large language models for medicine
npj Digital Medicine - (Monday January 27, 2025) In this study, we present MedS-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in clinical contexts, MedS-Bench, spanning 11 high-level clinical tasks. We evaluate nine leading LLMs, e.g., MEDITRON, Llama 3, Mistral,…  498 – HiNZ: Digital Health Week NZ 2024, Feature Episode
Talking HealthTech - (Sunday January 26, 2025) This feature episode of Talking HealthTech showcases interviews by Peter Birch from Talking HealthTech and Rebecca McBeth from Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ) during the Digital Health Week NZ 2024, hosted by HiNZ.This discussion… |
