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Philips Hails 'New Day' For Digital Diagnosis And AI As UK Govt Supports Five Specialist Centers

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Several major global health-care diagnostics groups have won bids to spearhead five new UK centers of excellence for digital pathology and imaging, including radiology and using AI medical advances. A key aim of the initiative, provided for under the UK Life Sciences Industrial Strategy, is to create a brand new commercial sector around the development of AI for diagnostics, says Neil Mesher, CEO of Philips UK and Ireland, which has a role in two of the centers.

"We believe that this is a global opportunity for the UK to lead in the creation of machine learning and AI for pathology and radiology." So said Neil Mesher, CEO of Royal Philips UK and Ireland, as the UK government announced its plans to set up and co-fund five new centers of excellence for digital pathology, imaging, and AI around the UK.

Mesher was speaking to Medtech Insight during the Association of British HealthTech Industries' UK Market Conference (Nov. 6), the 2018 event marking 30 years of ABHI work in supporting the...

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