Tag Archive: digital health

Barts Life Sciences supporting real-world evaluation of new AI heart failure screening tool

Barts Life Sciences is playing a central role in bringing a pioneering new AI screening tool closer to routine NHS use. Developed by clinicians and researchers at Barts Health and Queen Mary University of London, the Intelligent Heart Evaluation Framework (iHeF) uses a simple electrocardiogram (ECG) to detect subtle changes in heart function that currently require specialist hospital imaging. Backed by £1.3m from the National...

Saving limbs with AI: How smart systems spot diabetic foot risks before it’s too late

Every year in England, more than 9,000 leg amputations are carried out due to complications from diabetes. Patients who undergo amputation face significant physical challenges, such as substantially reduced mobility and the need for prosthetic adaptation. Emotionally, many experience grief, anxiety, or depression as they adjust to life after limb loss and navigate changes in independence and identity. Amputations also place significant financial pressure on the individual. The NHS covers...

The Barts Life Sciences Cluster launches in Whitechapel, East London

With planned investment of over £800m, the Cluster brings together Barts Health NHS Trust and private investors to unite clinical excellence and commercial innovation. Science Minister Lord Vallance said: “We have ambitious goals for making the UK Europe’s leader when it comes to life sciences’ sector-led investment in R&D, access to scale-up finance, and pulling in foreign direct investment....