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The CTI supports work at London AI Centre
London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare The London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare works to discover, develop, and deliver pioneering AI technology for the NHS. They are a highly collaborative, cross-institutional centre of excellence pooling expertise from across the healthcare ecosystem in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, research, […]
Douglas Bennet House Build
14 August 2020 Douglas Bennett House, on Windsor Walk, is now to be redeveloped to house acute adult inpatient services, including four specialist wards and a psychiatric intensive care unit; all currently based in Landor Road. The new design has been developed by architects who specialise in creating spaces with mental health and its treatment […]
Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People
19 March 2020 This year has seen the launch of the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People (CYP) which aims to foster even closer collaborations between experts at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. We are proud that the Digital contribution […]
MRC Mental Health Pathfinder grant awarded to King’s
Four members of the Centre for Translational Informatics (CTI) leadership team form a core part of a new £1.5m Medical Research Council (MRC) Mental Health Pathfinder Award granted to King’s College London, under the direction of Professor Robert Stewart. This King’s Pathfinder Award will build on our existing strengths in clinical informatics and deliver projects that provide the […]
King’s to help transform health through data science following £54 million award
9 February 2018 King’s College London has been chosen as a foundation partner of a new national institute Health Data Research UK. King’s will join UCL, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London and The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in a collaborative partnership of five London universities. Health Data Research UK is initially awarding £30 million funding […]
Potential for machine learning to predict unknown adverse drug reactions
Research funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, published in Scientific Reports today (Monday 27 November) shows that machine learning has the potential to predict unknown adverse drug reactions. Hospital admissions resulting from adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have been projected to cost the NHS £466m. Although ADRs are monitored during clinical trials, limitations in sample size […]
Improved prescribing for older people
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have launched a tool to improve prescribing for older people. Medichec is an innovative online tool that helps clinicians identify medicines that could cause memory and cognitive problems in older people. Medicines known as anticholinergics are prescribed for a range of conditions including urinary incontinence, pain and depression. […]
Using advanced search technologies to help manage infectious disease outbreaks
This week has seen a flurry of headlines about a worrying new drug-resistant fungal infection, Candida auris, which has been detected in 20 separate NHS trusts and independent hospitals in the UK. Candida auris is a relatively uncommon infection found in many countries, which has become a healthcare concern due to its potential to cause […]
Online risk calculator identifies candidates for early intervention services
I have been working with colleagues at the EPIC (Early Psychosis: Intervention & Clinical-detection) lab at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), to develop a new psychosis risk calculator which is available online at www.psychosis-risk.net. Psychosis is a mental disorder which causes people to perceive or interpret things differently from those around […]
Dr Rina Dutta wins award to understand suicide warning signs in children
Dr Rina Dutta and colleagues from King’s College London have won funding from the UK’s leading mental health research charity to investigate whether factors in schools can predict suicidal behaviours in children. The Data Science Award was granted by mental health research charity, MQ: Transforming Mental Health’, as part of a new programme dedicated solely to data science. […]
Maudsley becomes London’s Global Digital Exemplar
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced that South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) will be London’s ‘Global Digital Exemplar’. In government plans setting out next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View, the Trust is one of seven organisations cited as amongst the most advanced IT hospitals in the NHS. As […]
Professor Robert Stewart awarded ‘Collaborate to Innovate’ project
Professor Robert Stewart, who is part of the Centre for Translational Informatics leadership team, has been selected to be part of a new £2m programme to commercialise life sciences discoveries. MedCity’s ‘Collaborate to Innovate’ programme is led by King’s College London and part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Higher Education Funding Council […]
Digital Science Catalyst Grant Awarded To HipDynamics
HipDynamics – an early-stage digital startup run by King’s College London researchers Maximilian Kerz and Davide Danovi – has been awarded a Catalyst Grant by Digital Science, a leading global technology incubator focused on jumpstarting innovation in the research community. The Digital Science Catalyst Grant is an international initiative to support new software tools and […]
Knowledge discovery from healthcare data workshop in Melbourne, Australia
Researchers from the Centre for Translational Informatics, including Zina Ibrahim, Honghan Wu and Richard Dobson, are part of the organising team behind a workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Healthcare Data, co-located with the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Melbourne, Australia. Following a successful 2016 KHD workshop, and aligning with this year’s IJCAI theme of […]
Centre for Translational Informatics: the story so far
It’s been just over nine months since we launched the Centre for Translational Informatics (CTI), a partnership between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, which aims to improve healthcare through advances in digital technologies and accelerate their delivery to patients. Already researchers, patients, […]
Workshop turning technology ideas into action
In November 2016, the Centre for Translational Informatics (CTI) held a unique technology ideas generation workshop, co-led by mental health service users and Citizens With Experience (CWE) solutions. The workshop was attended by a group of people with a range of skills and experiences, including mental ill-health, and / or experience of working with people […]
As many as 1 in 5 people with psychosis do not use the internet
For many people, going online is an important way to get news and information, and connect with friends and family. Yet, up to 1 in 5 people with psychosis do not use the internet and are excluded from online support and health services, according to a new King’s College London survey published in the Journal […]