The U.K. National Health Service may or may not deploy transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices as widely as in the U.S., but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence officially staked out the position the data are not yet compelling for anyone other than high risk patients.
As the health care industry eagerly awaits the U.K. government’s 10-year plan to transform the national health service, persistent systemic challenges may make change difficult to realize. While the deployment of AI, medical technologies and diagnostic tools are crucial to this transformation, barriers to adoption must be addressed for the plan to be successful.
The U.K. government will soon unveil its 10-year health plan to transform the National Health Service. The aim is to tackle the problems in the 76-year-old system and make it fit for the future. The aim is to tackle the problems in the 76-year-old system and make it fit for the future.
The U.K. government will offer women home-testing kits for cervical screening as part of an effort to tackle barriers and get more of them taking this potentially life-saving test.
Bioprosthetic heart maker Carmat SA shares collapsed on June 23, reaching €0.28 on the Paris Stock Exchange after the company announced it would run out of cash by the end of the month without immediate financial support.
The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency opened a second round in its AI airlock program although this round, like the first round, will be limited to four applicants.
Deski SAS raised $6 million in a seed round to support the launch of its cardiac imaging software, Heartfocus, in the U.S. The AI-driven heart exam tool helps health care professionals perform echocardiograms from any ultrasound probe to enable the early detection of heart disease.
Amid rising demand for its Neuromark system, Neurent Medical Ltd. opened a new manufacturing facility in Ireland, which will serve as the central hub for the production of the device which treats chronic rhinitis.
The Alphafold machine learning system for predicting a protein’s structure from its amino acid sequence has been adapted to make it possible to design de novo proteins that fold in a particular way and bind to prespecified target proteins. The sister system, called Alphadesign, works by generating random strings of amino acids, using Alphafold to predict their structure, and then iteratively optimizing the design.
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