Student nurses and allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) at Huddersfield University are being offered placements in two local hospitals to open their eyes and minds to the possibilities of digital healthcare. The pioneering scheme – thought to be one of the first in the UK – will proactively expose the participants to technology already being used […]
A new guide to help councils and social care providers avoid common issues when introducing technologies into adult social care has been published by the University of Birmingham and RAND Europe. The guide has been developed through the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre and co-badged by Digital Social Care and NHS England Transformation Directorate social care […]
Be My Eyes has announced the first-ever digital visual assistant powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4 language model. The Virtual Volunteer tool integrates OpenAI’s latest generative AI technology, with the goal of providing an unprecedented level of accessibility to people who are blind or have low vision. Be My Eyes allows anyone to assist visually impaired […]
A hearing Wednesday in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill will provide the first opportunity to hear the arguments of the anti-abortion groups that filed the lawsuit and of the Food and Drug Administration, which is fighting to keep the abortion pill legal. The lawsuit, which seeks […]
HealthPlix, a startup that runs one of India’s biggest EMR platforms, has raised $22 million in a Series C funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners and SIG Venture Capital. The round included participation from its existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, JSW Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Chiratae Ventures, and Blacksoil Capital. The HealthPlix EMR provides AI-powered […]
NHS England has shared a case study describing how Eastern Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) ICS have come together to fund a Head of Innovation role, as part of a shared vision to cultivate a culture of innovation across the health and care system. The Head of Innovation role […]
A man in Tehran holds a local newspaper reporting on its front page the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties, signed in Beijing the previous day, on March, 11 2023. Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they were […]
In my many years of covering the micromobility industry, I thought I had seen just about every type of electric scooter out there. That was until the eLyly came across my desk and showed me just how far out an electric snow scooter could be. This new Finnish e-scooter doesn’t look like anything else we’ve […]
Weeks after teasing the public with a peek at its shadowy exterior, Kia has finally shared its first official images of its upcoming EV9 SUV both inside and out. Described with an “opposites united” design philosophy, this all-electric SUV looks like it will offer plenty of space inside and atop Hyundai Motor Group’s E-GMP platform […]
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