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Early Warning System for Intensive Care Units

Life-threatening situations occur time and again in an intensive care unit. To make sure that doctors can intervene in time, a team at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB) has developed AI-based software that regularly evaluates all monitoring data and alerts staff before a critical situation is reached. With the establishment of x-cardiac GmbH, these AI-based monitoring systems have now become market-ready medical products.

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DMEA 2021: Digital Health. 100 % Virtual.

7 - 11 June 2021, Berlin, Germany.
An entire week dominated by digital healthcare! With that in mind, early in June DMEA 2021 will be kicking off with a wide range of topics. This year, more than 100 program and partner sessions featuring lectures, discussions and other formats await visitors to Europe's largest event for the health IT sector.

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East Lancashire Signs Deal for Early Warning Technology from Alcidion

Thousands of NHS professionals across five hospitals in East Lancashire are to benefit from early warning technology that will help them detect and swiftly respond to deteriorating patients in need of urgent attention.

Alcidion's Patientrack system will help staff intervene early to prevent harm when patients show signs of worsening conditions.

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Marketing and Communication Manager Europe

Agfa HealthCare is looking for talented Marketing & Communication Manager to join our Region Europe's team.

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Child Brain Tumours can be Classified by Advanced Imaging and AI

Diffusion weighted imaging and machine learning can successfully classify the diagnosis and characteristics of common types of paediatric brain tumours a UK-based multi-centre study, including WMG at the University of Warwick has found. This means that the tumour can be characterised and treated more efficiently.

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Virtual Reality could Help to Reduce Pain for People with Nerve Injuries

We all feel physical pain in different ways, but people with nerve injuries often have a dysfunctional pain suppression system, making them particularly prone to discomfort.

Now researchers have uncovered that virtual reality (VR) can reduce types of pain typically seen in patients with nerve injuries - and that VR can boost the dysfunctional pain suppression system, giving people with chronic pain a possible game-changing hope.

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Moderna and IBM Plan to Collaborate on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain and Distribution Data Sharing

Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine management. Central to the effort will be a pilot of open, standardized, technology-enabled vaccine distribution approaches aimed to improve supply chain visibility and foster near real-time tracking of vaccine administration.

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Elsevier Launches Updated Drug-Drug Interaction Risk Calculator in Collaboration with Several Pharmaceutical Leaders

Elsevier, together with Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, Pierre Fabre, Sanofi, Servier and others, has further refined and extended its drug-drug interaction risk calculator (DDIRC) within PharmaPendium. The DDIRC 2.0 aims to help scientists improve patient safety and effectively manage drug-drug interaction (DDI) risks across the drug development process.

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Mobility Data Used to Respond to COVID-19 can Leave out Older and Non-White People

Information on individuals' mobility - where they go as measured by their smartphones - has been used widely in devising and evaluating ways to respond to COVID-19, including how to target public health resources. Yet little attention has been paid to how reliable these data are and what sorts of demographic bias they possess.

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The Public Needs to be Onboard for Vaccine Passport Journey

Opinion Article by David Newell, Head of Health, Gemserv
Anyone who's ever misplaced their passport will recognise that moment of panic. Anxious thoughts descend, thinking you’ll miss that flight or be stuck abroad - until you find that little burgundy or blue book hiding where you last left it.

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