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AI in Health - Latest News, Resources & Career Opportunities (Feb 2025)

Writer: Dr Avi MehraDr Avi Mehra

If you are interested in the intersection of Health and Artificial Intelligence, here is a round-up of the latest global news, resources and career opportunities in the space.


To keep up to date follow me on Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/avimehra3/ 


📰 Latest News


🟢 Skin Analytic’s DERM makes medical history as world’s first autonomous AI skin cancer detection system is approved for clinical decisions in Europe

🟢 AI: A Good Tool to Combat Bad Actors in Healthcare https://medcitynews.com/2025/02/ai-a-good-tool-to-combat-bad-actors-in-healthcare/ 

🟢 AI will transform parts of healthcare — but slow adoption and sales cycles could impede startups

🟢 Reliable reasoning agents may be just around the corner thanks to DeepSeek’s innovations

🟢 Research study uses AI chatbot to discuss sexual health screening https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/02/research-study-uses-ai-chatbot-to-discuss-sexual-health-screening/ 

🟢 More people are asking generative AI questions about their health. But the wrong answer can be risky https://theconversation.com/more-people-are-asking-generative-ai-questions-about-their-health-but-the-wrong-answer-can-be-risky-249383 

🟢 Health AI: How recent FDA layoffs could shift regulatory burden to health systems https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/fda-layoffs-could-shift-regulatory-burden-health-systems-ai-prognosis/ 

🟢 AI is impersonating human therapists. Can it be stopped?

🟢 UK health department invites stakeholders to shape new digital health and AI evaluation methodology https://med-techinsights.com/2025/02/20/uk-health-department-invites-stakeholders-to-shape-new-evaluation-methodology/ 

🟢 China launches its first AI model for rare disease diagnosis https://english.cctv.com/2025/02/21/ARTIvlMGNi58QlkKnthraaGe250221.shtml 

🟢 Gen AI powers new cancer imaging tool in Hong Kong https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia/gen-ai-powers-new-cancer-imaging-tool-hong-kong 


📚 Resources


🔵 SURVEY > AI in Primary Care Survey Results by Rock Health and American Academy of Family Physician

🔵 VIDEO > Hype, hallucination, hope – what might AI mean for our health? REAL Challenge Annual Lecture by Ketan Shah | The Health Foundation https://www.health.org.uk/events/hype-hallucination-hope-what-might-ai-mean-for-our-health 

🔵 PAPER > Antibiotics and Artificial Intelligence: Clinical Considerations on a Rapidly Evolving Landscape

🔵 REPORT > The Future of AI Enabled Health | World Economic Form https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Future_of_AI_Enabled_Health_2025.pdf 

🔵 REPORT > AI in Healthcare | US Congressional Research Service Report https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R48319 

🔵 REPORT > AMA Physician sentiments around the use of AI in heath care https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/physician-ai-sentiment-report.pdf 

🔵 REPORT > AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK Government https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan/ai-opportunities-action-plan 

🔵 EXPLAINER > Agentic AI vs Generative AI | IBM https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/agentic-ai-vs-generative-ai 

🔵 Future Medicine AI Hub

🔵 PODCAST > AI in Ophthalmology with Prof Pearse Keane https://open.spotify.com/episode/13ykuffQYBCKCEn2wWAuxK 

🔵 PODCAST > NEJM AI Grand Rounds https://ai-podcast.nejm.org/ 

🔵 EVENT > HETT North, Manchester | 26  https://www.hettnorth.co.uk/ 

🔵 EVENT > Digital Health Rewired, Birmingham | 18-19 https://digitalhealthrewired.com/ 

🔵 EVENT > Wired Health, London | 18 https://health.wired.com/ 

🔵 EVENTS LIST > Top Healthtech & AI Events Coming up - Curated List https://www.linkedin.com/posts/avimehra3_healthtech-events-activity-7297536041886846978-6UuF 


🚨 Career Opportunities in Health AI & HealthTech


🟣 Principal/Senior AI Scientist at Newton’s Tree

🟣 Clinician Scientist at Anterior

🟣 Machine Learning / AI Scientist at University of Oxford https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLS560/machine-learning-ai-scientist 

🟣 Senior Digital Healthcare Lead at Bupa https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4145087023 

🟣 Digital Clinical Lead (CSO) at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/digital-clinical-lead-cso-at-buckinghamshire-healthcare-nhs-trust-4161257568/ 

🟣 Senior Medical Advisor (Health Stream) at Flo https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flohealth/jobs/6281721003?gh_jid=6281721003 

🟣 Director, Healthcare Sales at Quantexa https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4139698219 

🟣 Senior Director, Digital Health at Genentech https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4161869593 

🟣 Healthtech Investor at Samsung Next https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4128637804 



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