Boris John­son pledges £250M to spur AI adop­tion in NHS; SQZ scoops CFO Teri Lox­am from Mer­ck

→ Last year, for­mer UK health sec­re­tary Je­re­my Hunt com­mis­sioned Cal­i­for­nia-based Er­ic Topol, a car­di­ol­o­gist, au­thor and dig­i­tal med­i­cine re­searcher, to car­ry out an in­de­pen­dent re­view in­to the dig­i­tal train­ing needs of NHS staff. The re­port was re­leased in Feb­ru­ary, de­tail­ing the promise of ge­nomics, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, ro­bot­ics and dig­i­tal med­i­cine in the pre­ven­tion, man­age­ment and treat­ment of dis­ease. On Thurs­day, the UK health de­part­ment — un­der new Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son — un­veiled a £250 mil­lion in­vest­ment in Al, which is al­ready be­ing de­vel­oped in some hos­pi­tals, suc­cess­ful­ly pre­dict­ing can­cer sur­vival rates and cut­ting the num­ber of missed ap­point­ments.

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