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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.

The new EPR will be powered by Cerner Millennium and will be internally referred to by staff as Surrey Safe Care.

Available in five languages, the website aims to serve as a national awareness platform, and comes in response to government directives to use “smart solutions in MoHAP’s curative and preventive services” to contain the spread of COVID-19.

The coronavirus emergency has improved digital health in the Italian healthcare system, but many fear a rude awakening unless major strides are made to advance digitisation, as discussed in a recent HIMSS Italian Community webinar.

Aimed at improving patient recovery time, as well as providing new surgical training opportunities, the programme will be run out of the group’s Mediclinic City Hospital in Dubai.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health will delete all collected data and suspend operations to address security concerns.

Also, NHS launches new online support for people with diabetes in this week’s Healthcare IT News roundup.

This year’s virtual CogX festival invited NHSX experts to shed light on the rapid strides made in AI and data set deployment during the pandemic.