Ufonia

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

Thanks to The MPS Foundation for your support with this work. We believe it's vital not just to build new #artificialclinicalintelligence technology but also to do the work to understand how this impacts people (patients and professionals). Unless we do this we will not be able to deliver genuine transformation of #healthcare services using #AI.

Really appreciate this great case study from Richard Lee and the team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust about the service transformation they delivered using Ufonia. TL;DR just one on-the-day cancellation in 6 months (compared to 24 previously) and halved the number of patients needing in-person appointments 👏 Thanks to DigitalHealth.London, CW Plus Team, Michael Wright and especially Christina Sothinathan for all their work getting the project going and their support with continued expansion across the service and Trust. Tony Young, Vin Diwakar, Verena Stocker, Richard Samuel, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth)

What an honour to be awarded "Best Conversational AI Application" at the UNPARSED 'Prompties' and for our Senior Product Researcher Nikoletta Ventoura to win the "One to watch" award 🏆 Earlier at the conference Nikoletta Ventoura presented our collaborative work with Spencer Hazel from Newcastle University on "Using Conversation Analysis to Understand the Effectiveness of Usability Testing". Conversational AI is a rapidly growing field, these awards recognise that we are leading the way in applying it to help transform healthcare.

Thanks to the Oxford University Innovation team for all your support. The talent density in #Oxford is means it's a great place to start a company!

Cataract awareness month week 2... Cataracts affect 94M people globally. Disparities in access to surgery and outcomes are stark, particularly in low-income countries and among women. Our Medical Director Aisling Higham shares details about the current challenges in provision of care and how Ufonia may be able to use automation to widen access. https://lnkd.in/emrKmFkw