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BBC News
7 days ago
- Science
- BBC News
'World first' Al data experiment helping research into miscarriages
An island's "world first" AI data experiment is now being used to help women who have suffered a miscarriage. Digital Jersey set up its first opt-in data trust in 2024, LifeCycle, which collected cyclists information to monitor riders and their reactions on the organisation is now working with the Southampton of University (SoU) to launch another data trust to help improve treatment for women who experience pregnancy Wendy Hall, SoU professor of computer science, likened data trusts to putting money in banks so it could be looked after, gain interest and used to help others. She said: "If we are going to use artificial intelligence well in the future we need to think about what control we have over our own data and how AI could be applied to that for the good of society."We want to apply AI to all patients who have a disease and use AI to decipher what drugs fit with what patients, the side effects and how better to personalise prescriptions and treatments." Improve treatments Ms Hall said professors at SoU hope to use the data trust to look at what drugs work for women who have will also asses the side effects of drugs, how they can improve personalisation of prescriptions and treatments, and conduct further research around Jersey's cycling data trust, which was launched last year, monitored a rider's environment up to 800 times per second, collecting and analysing data about their journey and riding conditions. This included detecting events such as braking, swerving, collisions, and road surface conditions, all of which were mapped onto their Hall said Jersey was the perfect place to launch AI data trusts because it has "very useable laws"."They are softer than the the UK laws, easier to apply and Jersey lawyers are used to dealing with trust law," she Jersey's chiefs believe their AI data trusts are a world first.
BBC News
18-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
How are firms using AI in the Channel Islands?
From automated notes of a visit to the doctor to filling out timesheets, Channel Island businesses have been looking into the opportunities and challenges presented by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how it is being used. Digital Jersey said businesses in the island were going through "different stages" in their use of Moretta, the organisation's chief executive, said some finance firms had developed specific tools to help employees do certain tasks faster."The research we've seen shows that gives you benefits of about 10% productivity," he said."But what's coming along and is starting to appear now is the ability to replace tasks completely to automate tasks and that starts to give you 50%, even 80% productivity improvements." A PwC report in 2020 warned up to 30% of jobs were at risk from automation and AI across the Channel Islands between now and 2035, which is more than 35,000 Mr Moretta said he believed the technology could "create virtual team members to work alongside real humans to give them the ability to work more, produce more"."The risk is we don't adopt the technology, the risk is we don't give people the skills to use that technology," he said. Katy Melhuish, from Guernsey PR agency Black Vanilla, said she had found AI had allowed the firm to focus on other areas."It's been really useful for us, whether that's streamlining our admin processes such as timesheets or using it for our PR activity."We can really invest our energy into where our skills lie."She said she believed it should only be used as a "support tool"."It's not there to replace," she said."I think especially from a PR and communications perspective, it always requires that human oversight."AI doesn't have the ability to be compassionate or to understand situations from an emotional perspective." In the health sector, doctors said they were using AI to allow them to spend more time with patients and less doing Guernsey's specialist medical care provider, said it was using an AI assistant to take notes in the background during patient automatically creates documents, such as referral letters and patient summaries, which the doctor checks and signs off, it said. Dr Michelle Le Cheminant said the technology would hopefully give the best experience to MSG's patients."When you've thought about any change within medicine, for example, you take the Dictaphone, the typewriter, we need to move forwards and this is part of that journey," she said."The main difference that patients will notice when they are in the clinic room is that we won't be having to produce a lot of handwritten notes, we won't be having to type a lot on the computer, so really the difference is that focus on the patient and that interaction." Compliance chatbots The Government of Jersey said AI was already embedded in some of its systems and it was evaluating further said the island's Financial Services Commission was piloting AI tools such as "regulatory chatbots" to streamline compliance processes."These innovations reflect our broader ambition to position Jersey as a forward-thinking jurisdiction that embraces technology while maintaining robust governance," it said. Alex Ruddy, chairwoman of the Institute of Directors Jersey, said learning about the positives and negatives of AI was a community issue."Everybody recognises that things have massively changed in the past few years in terms of digital technology."I think everybody recognises that things have massively changed in the past few years in terms of digital technology, skills that are necessary to accommodate that."
BBC News
27-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey tech scheme to offer year-round funding for ideas
Tech entrepreneurs are being invited to submit ideas to benefit Jersey's economy, environment and community as part of a new project. Digital Jersey said the Innovation Programme offered funding to projects that could help the island through said the programme would be open year-round and would not have a specific deadline to give entrepreneurs and businesses access to a rolling funding said the aim was to fund idea to help improve productivity, address housing needs and respond to climate change. Digital Jersey chief executive Tony Moretta said: "This new programme is about helping to turn good ideas – large and small - into real outcomes that can benefit Jersey's people, economy and environment."The project is being delivered through Impact Jersey.
BBC News
16-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Jersey digital schemes helping older people given grants
Three Jersey projects aiming to use "cutting edge technology" to improve the lives of older people have been awarded three projects were picked from the CareTech Challenge, which was launched with up to £2m of government money for innovators with ideas for long-term high-quality scheme is run by Digital Jersey, which is awarding up to £20m over three years to schemes using technology to help "solve the island's biggest problems".Deputy Kirsten Morel, the Minister for Sustainable Development, said the projects would help "make a real difference as part of our long-term healthcare strategy". He said Jersey faces the challenge of a predicted 30% increase in the number of over 65s in the next 15 picked the Orchid Connect hybrid care service which uses tools, including sensors detecting changes in the environment, to help people live independently for longer so families can react before problems build grant was awarded to island-based Lifestyle Medicine's the Hero of Health Jersey app which connects users to local services, online resources and in-person company said the funding means it can roll the app out across the island, starting with GP surgeries, Jersey General Hospital and voluntary third innovation to receive funding is the Good Boost project which uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create personalised rehabilitation and preventative exercise plans to create a network of rehabilitation hubs in community spaces across Jersey's CEO Tony Moretta said the projects "bring leading minds together to implement tech-driven solutions that can improve the lives of islanders".
