AI in Healthcare: How do We Get from Hype to Reality, Safely and Effectively?
The Highland Marketing advisory board met to consider the government's enthusiasm for AI. To date, healthcare has mostly experimented with decision support tools, and their impact on the NHS and UK plc has been mixed. But the big, new idea is generative AI; and members felt some careful thought is needed about how and where to adopt it.
Ask Google's Gemini assistant how many articles have been published on AI in the UK over the past year, and the response is that the data is "too vast and dispersed" to say, but "it's a very active area of discussion."
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) has signed a long-term agreement for use of the Alcidion Miya Precision platform, to provide an electronic patient record (EPR) for the trust. The trust joins two others in the region delivering benefits for patient care with the support of technology from Alcidion.
As leaders gather for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, Leaps by Bayer, the impact investing arm of Bayer, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) announced the launch of one of the largest surveys examining global public sentiment towards transformative technology. The field work was conducted by market research company Ipsos.