Ufonia

We were honoured to present our instructional course on #conversational #AI in #cataract care at #AAO2024 in #Chicago this past Saturday! It was an incredible opportunity to connect with fellow professionals and delve into the opportunities for #genAI in #healthcare. A huge thank you to Hannah Chiu MD FRCSC University of Toronto and Uptown Eye Specialists for leading the session and sharing the results of our deployment with you. Thanks to everyone who attended. Missed it? Let’s connect to discuss how we can work together!

We're really glad to see some of the results of our research collaboration with Newcastle University #linguistics Spencer Hazel and Adam Brandt in press 📖. We believe it is vital to be at the forefront of studying how to implement this powerful new technology in healthcare, so that patients get the best care possible.

Last week I spent some time in New York with Nick de Pennington, Founder & CEO of Ufonia alongside Benjamin (Haïm) Sadik 🗽 Ufonia is already working with many UK NHS Trusts, so we crossed the pond to discuss how US healthcare companies could benefit from working with them in order to drive better patient outcomes 🏥 Coming from a family who have worked in the NHS across multiple generations, I've witnessed the need for optimisations and the demand from employees for new mechanisms to scale. Welcome, 'Dora'. 🤖 'Dora,' is an AI-powered voice system, that calls patients after surgery, asks them questions about their recovery, and determines if they need to see a clinician. The Benefits? ⏰ Efficiency: Dora frees up time by handling routine follow-ups. 💸 Cost Savings: Using Dora is cheaper than traditional in-person appointments. 🧑⚕️Patient Satisfaction: Patient feedback and found most participants were happy with the AI follow-up. 🎯Accuracy: Dora's assessments are highly accurate and align with doctors' opinions. I am really excited to see what we can achieve together & thank you to the wonderful team that we get to work with at Ufonia, Joe Tindale, Louis Williams, Yajie Vera H., Mohita Chowdhury, Ernest Lim, Dr Priya Sadhwani. Thank you to Charko Patterson who supported us so closely in our time in NYC and the wonderful Google Cloud & Google Health team who continue to support this journey together Sebastian Haire Elena Kolesnik Adrian Poole Toby Knight Peter Clardy Pat Lalley William H. Morris, MD, MBA Amber Hilton ⛑️

We’re excited to announce we'll be at American Academy of Ophthalmology #AAO2024 presenting an educational session with Dr Hannah Chiu from Uptown Eye Specialists / University of Toronto on using #conversational #AI to manage #cataract care. We'll be sharing data on our deployments in Canada, the UK and EU. If you are going to be in Chicago, mark your calendars for Saturday, October 19, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM in room E353B to learn more about the #safe use of #AI in #healthcare and how you can improve patient #experience and practice #efficiency 👀 . #ophthalmology #innovation #future

If you are trying to work out where to start with #healthcare #AI then check out this publication from NHS Confederation (https://lnkd.in/e733wzJ5). We were delighted to be featured as a #casestudy with our partners at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. There's a really clear #jargon buster for anyone trying to separate your 'prompts' from your 'precision' 🤔 Richard Lee Christina Sothinathan 🇮🇪🇱🇰🇬🇧 Michael Wright Marcela Paola Vizcaychipi Bruno Botelho

We had a brilliant time sharing some of our #AI #research at the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute "AI in Health Conference" in #Houston last week. Yajie Vera H. presented work conducted with Houston Methodist (thanks to Andrew Lee, Homer Quintana and their teams) combining quantitative and qualitative evaluation of #genAI responses to patient questions. Madison Putman and Nick de Pennington met with our other collaborators, including Baylor College of Medicine where clinical trials will begin soon. Thanks to Texas Medical Center Innovation Factory for supporting our work and look forward to being back for #Envision2024 (https://lnkd.in/gyhZJKU7)

A great few days at The European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) annual meeting in #Barcelona. It was an honour to run an instructional course on the use of #LLMs and #AI in cataract care alongside Dr Sarah Maling and Mike Adams. Aisling Higham presented x4 😅, including the first results of our multi-lingual work with Rudy Nuijts and his team at Maastricht UMC+; and to top it off Mor Dickman included us as a case-study his #plenary presentation on the future of #telemedicine in #ophthalmology.

Today Ufonia is featuring across the BBC 📺 📻 about the benefits we are delivering to the #NHS! We had radio interviews this morning with Ernest Lim and Kanmin Xue about our successful clinical #research, and there will be TV segments on the lunchtime and evening BBC News about the advantages of using our #artificialclinicalintelligence technology. It's especially good to hear directly from Ron, one of the patients who has used Dora, about the benefits he sees to #AI managing his care. We're looking forward to expanding access to more patients and more of NHS England over the coming months. https://lnkd.in/edSbGUfz Thanks to Katharine Da Costa and to all our supporters for this work: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Buckinghamshire Health Research & Innovation Centre Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust SBRI Healthcare NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Accelerated Access Collaborative Oxford University Innovation Innovate UK Chris Sawyer Tony Young Verena Stocker Erika Denton Tyrone Blackford-Swaries Richard Samuel Sharon Barrington Angela Lawes Meghana Pandit David Walliker Elena Bechberger Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)

BIG NEWS! Ufonia has been approved by the UK Care Quality Commission as a health care provider 🏥 This means we can further increase the #accessibility, #efficiency and #efficacy of care by using our #artificialclinicalintelligence solutions alongside our own healthcare staff. We are starting by focusing 👁 on #ophthalmology. If you have challenges scaling or meeting patient demand, then please get in touch with Dr Priya Sadhwani to discuss how we can support your clinical services. Congratulations to Ernest Lim for his work over the past year leading the application and to Aisling Higham, Katrina Mason and Louisa Stacey for their roles supporting the new services. https://lnkd.in/gqZPmfQj

We are delighted that the results from our NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funded study using Ufonia in cataract surgery at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust have been published in The Lancet eClinicalMedicine (https://lnkd.in/g8XiWM6N) These show the first version of 'Dora' was #safe and #effective (sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 86%) with significant cost #savings (£35) per patient compared to standard of care. The study also demonstrated that #AI can deliver an excellent patient #experience. There was a completion rate of 97% and average patient NPS response of 9/10. Since the study was conducted Dora has continued to improve and our mission to developer #artificialclinicalintelligence has grown to manage care across ophthalmology pathways (the results of more studies on the way...) Many thanks to all the teams who made this possible especially PIs Kanmin Xue, Eduardo Normando and Edward Meinert. We were able to conduct the study with funding from the 'Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award' supported by the #NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative Ara Darzi Verena Stocker Vin Diwakar Erika Denton Tony Young and great background support from Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley, SBRI Healthcare and Innovate UK More in a press release here: https://lnkd.in/g8dJRMkH