UK Early Disease Detection Project To Use AI And Health Data
Executive Summary
A new UK initiative plans to collect data from healthy volunteers to create a biobank that could be of use in developing new diagnostic methods to detect disease at an earlier stage.
You may also be interested in...
Illumina CSO Bentley Paints A Vision For The Future Of Precision Medicine
Genomic medicine is coming of age. For Illumina chief scientific officer David Bentley, that not only means improved technology, accuracy and coverage of gene sequencing and a broadening into cancer, but also a better understanding among the wider population of disease and precisely the benefits that gene sequencing can bring to patients – actual and pre-symptomatic.
AI Tops The Tech Priorities For UK NHS With New Govt Funding Pledge
With health care in the UK being increasingly restructured around digital delivery, bodies like the new NHSX, NHS Digital and the forthcoming Digital Innovation Hubs will be in the forefront of health-care policy-making at the national level. A new government funding pledge has underlined the importance of taking the opportunities that artificial intelligence, machine learning and genomic medicine offer in health care.
Post-Brexit UK Risks Being ‘Left Out In The Cold’ As EU Coordinates Action On Shortages
The UK is not alone in experiencing drug shortages, as data from across Europe show, but its departure from the EU makes it more difficult to respond to supply chain pressures, according to new research.