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Introduction In a world first, an autonomous AI was recently approved as a medical device. This means the skin cancer detection system (Skin Analytics’ DERM) is legally authorized to making clinical decisions without human oversight. This marks a milestone in digital...

AI-powered virtual assistants for young people with ADHD and developing technology to combat loneliness in Parkinson’s patients are just a few of the exciting projects which have received financial backing from the LEAP Digital Health Hub. The Hub has awarded funding...

by Dr Karen Dawe, Deputy Director, Skills and Knowledge programme As the nights start drawing in, we’ve been reflecting on what we did over the summer, and a theme has emerged. This summer LEAP spoke at a number of events. During Data Week we gave a webinar for the...

We’re thrilled to announce that our Executive Fellowship scheme has officially started! We’ve assembled a brilliant cohort of Fellows working across the Digital Health sector in the South West of England and Wales. Throughout the next 12 months, the Fellows will meet...

by Dr Karen Dawe, Deputy Director, Skills and Knowledge programme "A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of hacking and marathon) is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively...