Exclusive: Four internet treatments developed by University of Oxford will be
rolled out across NHS trusts
New NHS-approved online therapies could help two to three times the number of
children and adults recover from anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder,
research suggests.
One in five children and young people in England aged eight to 25 have a
probable mental disorder and one in four adults in England experiences at least
one diagnosable mental health problem in any given year, according to NHS
England.
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‘C the Signs’ artificial intelligence program scans medical records to increase
likelihood of spotting cancers
Artificial intelligence that scans GP records to find hidden patterns has helped
doctors detect significantly more cancer cases.
The rate of cancer detection rose from 58.7% to 66.0% at GP practices using the
“C the Signs” AI tool. This analyses a patient’s medical record to pull together
their past medical history, test results, prescriptions and treatments, as well
as other personal characteristics that might indicate cancer risk, such as their
postcode, age and family history.
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Artificial intelligence is heralded as helping the NHS fight cancer. But some
warn it’s ‘bionic duckweed’ that distracts from present-day challenges
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What if AI isn’t that great? What if we’ve been overstating its potential to a
frankly dangerous degree? That’s the concern of leading cancer experts in the
NHS, who warn that the health service is obsessing over new tech to the point
that it’s putting patient safety at risk. From our story yesterday:
In a sharply worded warning, the cancer experts say that ‘novel solutions’ such
as new diagnostic tests have been wrongly hyped as ‘magic bullets’ for the
cancer crisis, but ‘none address the fundamental issues of cancer as a systems
problem’.
A ‘common fallacy’ of NHS leaders is the assumption that new technologies can
reverse inequalities, the authors add. The reality is that tools such as AI can
create ‘additional barriers for those with poor digital or health literacy’.
AI is a workflow tool, but actually, is it going to improve survival? Well,
we’ve got limited evidence of that so far. Yes, it’s something that could
potentially help the workforce, but you still need people to take a patient’s
history, to take blood, to do surgery, to break bad news.
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