A baby with a rare neurological disorder, airlifted to hospital after collapsing in a supermarket, is not out of the woods yet, said his father. Seven-month-old Rupert Smith, from Broughton, Flintshire, stopped breathing in a Tesco store in Broughton Park, on Monday. His mother Siobhan, 35, immediately called for help and administered CPR before emergency services, including paramedics, police and an air ambulance arrived. Rupert, who has a disorder called alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), was flown to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool for treatment. Dad Dave Smith said Rupert had continued to have quite significant seizures [in hospital] so they have been giving him medication and he has undergone various different tests.

Collaboration With STFC Hartree Centre Taps into IBM Watson to Improve Patient Experience. Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust today announced a ground-breaking multi-year collaborative programme with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre, supported by IBM (NYSE: IBM), to create the United Kingdom's first'cognitive' hospital by harnessing'big data' and the power of IBM's Watson technology platform. This is the first time that Watson technology will be applied to improve patient experience in the United Kingdom. Alder Hey and the Hartree Centre believe that by applying Watson -- an innovation in computing technology -- it will enhance patient care and potentially generate savings for both the hospital and the NHS (National Health Service) as a whole. Using Watson to analyse any feedback that is voluntarily and securely provided by the patients, with appropriate consent as needed, it is anticipated that Alder Hey will be able to greatly enhance patient experience by; identifying patient anxieties and providing information and reassurance on-demand; reminding young patients and their parents about appointments and about aftercare; and providing insightful feedback to clinicians based on the tone and sentiment of these interactions.

IBM will analyse data from everything to surgical procedures to favourite films will be analysed to make children's hospital visits as stress-free as possible. IBM Watson's cognitive computing power is set to be deployed in a UK NHS hospital for the first time in an effort to use artificial intelligence and big data to improve patient experience -- by using a mobile app. It isn't the first time IBM Watson has been applied to healthcare, but it's the first time the technology is set to be used in the UK. Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool will collaborate with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre -- an institution which aims to accelerate the application of high performance computing and data science -- and IBM Watson in an effort to develop the UK's first'cognitive' hospital. The multi-year project will see Alder Hey apply IBM Watson's cognitive computing capabilities to analyse data gathered on patient feedback about their hospital experience.