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Two leading digital health executives from the UK's largest NHS trust and a major US health system discuss how digital innovation, AI, and operational change can reshape care pathways and improve patient access.

Anyone with access to Claude can build a healthcare chatbot in a weekend. But getting from a demo to a regulated product clinicians can actually use with their patients can still take months or years of work. Here are the things I believe are critical to get adoption and are difficult to shortcut.

Clinicians from both sides of the Atlantic explore how healthcare systems are responding to mounting capacity pressures, using cataract care as a practical case study.

Six years of real-world research and more than 150,000 patient conversations later, we have shown that there is a better way to deliver healthcare.

We wouldn't license a physician who could diagnose accurately but couldn't communicate with patients. So why deploy AI systems that way? Our new Nature Medicine paper proposes a framework for evaluating clinical AI - drawing on lessons from autonomous vehicles, that goes beyond diagnostic accuracy to assess both 'cure' and 'care' behaviors.

In the week before Christmas, a patient at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas in Austin completed a routine follow up after eye surgery. The conversation was led by Dora, Ufonia's AI clinical assistant—marking the first US trial call.