Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group green-lit the scheme following a randomised control trial featuring around 1,000 patients treated at York Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust over the last four years. The trial used AI to identify patients, often with long-term conditions, who were at risk of an unplanned hospital admission. These patients then received coaching from nurses for up to six months to help them take greater control of their health. The trial reported a 30 per cent reduction in unplanned hospital admissions and 25 per cent decrease in planned admissions within the patient group which received the intervention, compared to the cohort which did not. The CCG will now fund health coaching for up to 1,800 patients.

"to substitute, he claims, for the incomes lost to robots and artificial intelligence generally." However, it is not proven that the introduction of AI and robots will disadvantage workers so substantially.

Scientists are developing a pill that could help you forget bad memories - and they have just tested it on 60 heart broken people. Dr. Alain Brunet's memory manipulation study at the McGill University in Quebec, Canada, hopes to bring about a pioneering technique for the easing of painful memories. What had previously been a science fiction fantasy, discarding unwanted memories, may become a reality for those suffering from an'adjustment disorder' after experiencing a traumatic event. Fictional memory removal: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet - 2004. Where Jim Carrey's character receives treatment to remove memories of his ex Of the 60 people who signed up for the psychiatry study all had experienced the same emotion, the betrayal of their partner ending the romantic relationship, and all wanted to forget it.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines for Nov. 1 are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. A reality TV star in Australia is accused of trying to extort her Tinder date -- and then assaulting him with another man when he refused to pay, according to a new report. Suzi Taylor, who starred on the hit home renovation show "The Block," allegedly lured the 33-year-old victim, whom she met through the dating app, to a home in Brisbane just after midnight Wednesday, News.com.au She then demanded money from him -- but when he refused to comply, Taylor's alleged accomplice, Ali Ebrahimi, entered the room and assaulted the man, police said in a statement.

In the world of cinema, we're led to believe that a given film lives or dies by the creative decisions of a single, all-powerful hand: the director. In the world of video games, things are (usually) different. Instead, game players and critics tend to celebrate (or condemn) the work of studios and development teams. This focus on a collective group of individuals as opposed to a monolithic auteur feels more honest. After all, video games are made by hundreds -- sometimes thousands -- of hardworking creatives.

Out of more than 300 artificial intelligence proposals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) picked 25 organizations for the next stage of its AI challenge including IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton and Mayo Clinic. The organizations are competing for a $1 million prize to develop the best tool for predicting patient health outcomes. CMS says the AI challenge, which launched in March, will accelerate the development of AI solutions that aid clinicians in predicting health outcomes and keeping patients healthy. The central goal is to develop AI-driven predictions healthcare providers and clinicians participating in CMS Innovation Center models can use, CMS officials said. RELATED: CMS offers up to $1.6M in AI challenge for better healthcare prediction tools The challenge was created in partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

As developers look toward what makes a well-rounded conversational AI assistant, it's imperative to denote the differences between utility and intelligence. Today's intelligent agents can be useful -- the can sell a product, direct a call or answer a question without human intervention. But the chatbots of the future will be more flexible and interactive and should be able to "offer products and services in a human way," said Sasha Caskey, CTO of digital platform Kasisto. To train a computer to replicate human activity and speech, developers should start with contextual interactions, Karen Myers, lab director at SRI International AI Center, said at the AI World Conference Expo in Boston. The first generations of chatbots were focused on one-off interactions -- book this event on a calendar, answer this specific question or direct a user to a webpage.

This kind of future may seem like science-fiction. But at Health's Digital Future, a special event titled "ETH Meets Digital Festival Zurich," researchers and partners from ETH Zurich gathered to discuss the realities of this kind of future. Moderated by Diplomatic Courier's own Contributing Editor Shalini Trefzer, the event featured leading voices in technology, entrepreneurship, research and healthcare, all discussing the future of digital health. A key takeaway from the event focused on the complexity of digital health, especially within large organizations. As brought up in the discussion between Novartis CDO Bertrand Bodson and ICRC s Director of Digital Transformation and Data Charlotte Lindsey-Curtet, one of the necessary components with digitizing large organizations is culture.

AI-powered baby monitors are not marketed as a babysitter replacement but rather a supplement for working parents. Device-assisted child care is an almost century-old concept. The world's first electronic baby monitor, the Bakelite Zenith Radio Nurse, went on sale in the late 1930s--a response, at least in part, to the moral panic following the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the Lindbergh baby. Thus, using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist or relieve parents entirely of the burdens of nurturing is not an abrupt or unanticipated innovation--many parents already monitor their children remotely using cameras connected to their smartphones, sometimes with unanticipated and extremely creepy results--and, given the cost and difficulty of securing reliable human babysitters, it may also be an easy sell. SEE ALSO: What Happens When'Generation Voice' Grows Up? Enter Turkey-based startup Invidyo and its AI-powered "smart baby and babysitter camera."

Digital media software company RealNetworks has announced significant financial progress in the third quarter financial report, the company says in a press release. RealNetworks had already announced great success for its SAFR biometric facial recognition software in its Q2 2019 report that saw revenues of $44.2 million. According to current figures, the third quarter revenue rose to $45.0 million from just $17.6 million during the same timeframe last year. The SAFR live video artificial intelligence and biometric facial recognition platform was recently integrated with the Nvidia Metropolis Software Partner Program to improve technology deployment in smart city projects. In June, SAFR biometric facial recognition was rolled out in a museum in Europe on MOBOTIX cameras to provide live analytics.