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The new project will build a global information knowledge platform to help the healthcare industry deliver more efficient care to COVID-19 patients.

Also, The Royal Marsden, in the UK, launches AI virtual agent to support key workers post lockdown.

The Oxford University spin-out is also calling on the government to review what data it is collecting on the COVID-19 crisis by ethnic groups.     

Medicspot has announced a partnership with Asda to offer in-store GP video-consultations in the latest expansion of digital primary care services.

Local authorities are to be given access to postcode-level data on people testing positive for coronavirus in their areas. 

Five of Sheffield’s labour MPs have written to the prime minister, Boris Johnson, and health secretary, Matt Hancock, to seek support for the building of the Child Health Technology (CCHT) on the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.

Leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, Ibex Medical Analytics and provider of digital pathology services in the NHS, LDPath, have announced the UK’s first rollout of clinical grade AI application for cancer detection in pathology.

With a large backlog of appointments caused by coronavirus, some hospitals in England and Wales have started using algorithms to prioritise patients most urgently in need of care and to help clear the mounting numbers.

GE HEALTHCARE LAUNCHES NEW AI SUITE TO DETECT CHEST X-RAY ABNORMALITIES Leading global medical technology solutions innovator, GE Healthcare has launched the Thoracic Care Suite, which uses AI to scan for eight chest X-ray abnormalities, including pneumonia indicative of COVID-19, which is a key cause of mortality in patients who contract the virus.

Ascom UK, Person Centred Software, ATLAS eMAR and PainChek are partnering to help care home-owners and staff go digital.