Author: Healthcare Propulsion Staff

Oracle Health is building out its generative AI capabilities for inpatient nursing workflows. The company announced the U.S. availability of its clinical AI agent for nurses, as early adopters say the AI tool reduces the time nurses spend on charting. The clinical AI agent, embedded directly within the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR), combines voice-driven chart navigation and search, acute nursing summaries and voice-enabled discrete charting. The AI assistant is designed to help nurses quickly find patient information and document care in near real time, Oracle Health said in a press release. A year ago, Oracle Health launched…

Time keeps getting away from us. It has a fraught relationship with our subjective experience — sometimes slowing down or dragging on; and at other times speeding up, with years seeming to fly by as we get older. Our brain cells are even known to distort our sense of time when we’re tired.In physics, time gets even more complicated, incorporated into theories of relativity — the experience of the clock’s ticking being relative to the observer and their place in space — and entropy, which gives time its unidirectional flow. Meanwhile quantum mechanics indicates time can move both forwards and…

Deciding whether you are too sick to work is not always straightforward.For physical illness, Tang says there are some well-established rules of thumb.”If you’re vomiting and have diarrhoea or have a fever, you should stay at home for 48 hours and 24 hours respectively after the symptoms have passed. In those situations, you’re unlikely to be able to work effectively anyway.”Beyond that, the decision becomes more nuanced, according to Tang.”Where there is more of a grey area is with coughs and colds. Since Covid, workplace etiquette has changed – generally it’s considered polite to work from home.”But she says an…

In a new study, scientists reared lab mice that were missing sections of their brains and then replaced the missing tissue with human cells.The experiment represents a step forward in the study of human brain organoids ‪—‬ tiny models of the human brain grown from stem cells. In the long run, scientists aim to use organoids to better understand how the brain develops and how its structure and function change in the context of disease.”It is definitely an advance in the field,” said Dr. H. Isaac Chen, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of…

Eating four to six servings of wholegrain each day reduces several major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal today (Wednesday). The study is a systematic review and meta-analysis, meaning it brings together the results of all existing research in this area. It includes data from 87 clinical trials that tested the effects of eating wholegrain food on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. It shows that eating a diet rich in wholegrain food is likely to prevent heart disease by reducing body weight, blood pressure and the levels of cholesterol and glucose…

Dame Babara Hakin, chair of the Health Tech Alliance (Credit: Health Tech Alliance) NHS organisations and suppliers must work more closely to turn promising health tech pilots into scalable solutions, writes Dame Barbara Hakin, chair of the Health Tech Alliance The Health Tech Alliance, a collaboration between healthcare and the technology industry, is “absolutely committed” to the adoption of technologies which are “unequivocally of benefit to patients and the taxpayer”, according to Dame Barbara. But the former deputy chief executive of NHS England warns that promising pilots are not enough to unlock the “large amounts of money” required to scale…

In an extraordinary first-of-its-kind video, researchers have documented a humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf.The footage was recorded off the coast of southeastern Australia in July 2025, according to a study published Wednesday (Sept. 16) in the journal Discover Animals. In the clip, a female humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) hovers above her baby’s motionless body on the seafloor and tries to make eye contact with the newborn, as if to check for signs of life.”It is extremely rare to witness,” study first author Olaf Meynecke, a marine ecologist at Griffith University in Australia, told Live Science in an email.…

Claudia de’Vries, project manager for health inequalities at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (Credit: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust) Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust will introduce a flag into its Oracle Health electronic patient record (EPR) to help staff identify patients at greater risk of health inequalities. The inequalities flag, which will go live trust-wide from 21 September after already being piloted in maternity services, is designed to prompt staff to consider whether patients face barriers that could affect their access to healthcare, experience of services or health outcomes. Potential barriers could include difficulties attending appointments, understanding…

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help physicians predict treatment and survival outcomes in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with immunotherapy, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. The study reported findings from the I3LUNG project, a large, international trial aimed at improving the current treatment of metastatic NSCLC by developing AI-based predictive models that can help determine the best therapeutic approach for each individual. Immunotherapy – a cancer treatment that boosts and uses the power of the patient’s immune system against cancer cells – has transformed lung cancer treatment, achieving long-term benefit in 20%…

Introduction While people have long been aware of the importance of prevention and early detection of physical health problems, only recently are they becoming aware that the same principles apply to well-being and mental health. In part, this awareness has developed due to increasing numbers of people with mental health disorders. The World Health Organization (WHO) has found that more than 1 billion people are living with mental health disorders, with conditions such as anxiety and depression inflicting immense human and economic tolls (World Health Organisation, 2025b). Globally, about one in seven 10- to 19-year-olds experience a mental disorder, accounting…