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At a glance: The AI revolution in healthcare

AI is changing the way physicians treat patients, speeding up pathology detection and treatment times, and offering more choices for patients, doctors, and healthcare operators. In 2021, a study by health insurer Optum found that 85% of the healthcare executives they surveyed already had an AI strategy. The global AI

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The most boring bits of AI

Welcome to the 77 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Dr. Istvan Petak (Physician-scientist, CEO at Genomate

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At a glance: The AI revolution in healthcare

AI is changing the way physicians treat patients, speeding up pathology detection and treatment times, and offering more choices for patients, doctors, and healthcare operators. In 2021, a study by health insurer Optum found that 85% of the healthcare executives they surveyed already had an AI strategy. The global AI

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From agile research to effective health tech

Just before she arrived in Riyadh for #LEAP23, we caught up with Reena Sooch (Head of Digital and Connected Health at Ipsos) to get a quick preview of the wisdom she’d share on the keynote stage.  Sooch leads Ipsos in developing capabilities in evolving digital techniques, and has a

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Going beyond: Use tech to build a society that works

We asked #LEAP23 speaker Kee Yuan Ngiam (Chief Technology Officer at National University Health System, Singapore) what the biggest challenges are for healthcare management in Singapore – and how technology can help overcome them.  He said: “Singapore has the same healthcare challenges as many developed nations, namely, an ageing population, burden

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Ai Bias: The Need to Diversify Tech

Artificial intelligence stands to revolutionise everything from healthcare to education. But there are concerns that AI has the potential to do so in an unfair way, due to bias having crept into its algorithms. As we see more and more artificial intelligence applications in daily life, it’s important to

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The beating heart of future health tech

The beating heart of future health tech Genomics, wearables, assistive tech and digitised patient services: healthcare is transforming at pace, and key industry players are looking at an optimistic future.  At #LEAP22 Asad Khan (Managing Director – Technology, Health and Public Service Lead at Accenture) sat down with Pranav Vempati (CEO

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From digital healthcare to personalised medicine

Telehealth has grown a lot since early 2020. While early pandemic uptake of digital solutions could have dropped off, a 2021 report by McKinsey found that telehealth digital healthcare adoption has remained strong, as a result of improved consumer perception and robust investments into the space. So much so that