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Novartis and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Transform Medicine with Artificial Intelligence

Novartis announced an important step in reimagining medicine by founding the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selecting Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort. The new lab aims to bolster Novartis AI capabilities from research through commercialization and help accelerate the discovery and development of transformative medicines for patients worldwide.

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The Human Brain Project Calls for Projects to Contribute to its Research Infrastructure

The Human Brain Project (HBP) has launched four calls for expression of interest for projects that wish to participate in the development of its research infrastructure. Proposals can be submitted until 2 December. The selected projects will contribute to the development of the EBRAINS research infrastructure and increase the scope of its application in terms of innovation, neuroscience and clinical research.

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Virtual Medical Visits Get Wary Welcome from Older Adults

The technology is there. The funding is nearly there. The health providers are getting there. But a new US poll suggests that people over 50 aren't quite ready to fully embrace virtual health visits with their doctors and other providers - also known as telehealth. Only 4% of those polled by the National Poll on Healthy Aging had had a video-based telehealth visit with a provider via smartphone or computer in the past year. Their reactions were mixed.

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Patient Safety Learning Urges New Approach by Health and Social Care Sector to Stop Thousands of Avoidable Deaths Each Year

Patient Safety Learning today announced acampaign to end the thousands of avoidable deaths each year from unsafe patient care. The charity is calling for a new approach throughout all areas of the health and social care system to ensure improvements in patient safety. This involves providers, commissioners, policy makers, regulators, patient groups, and individual patients and families.

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IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering EHB 2019

21 - 23 November 2019, Iasi, Romania.
The 7-th edition of the International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB 2019) will take place in the city of Iasi, Romania. This year the conference motto is "Smarter technology for a better health" while the sub-domains and topics of medical bioengineering and biomedical engineering represent fundamental pillars for the reinforcement of medical research and of health care.

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Digital Project Manager

The purpose of the Digital Project Manager role is help set the vision and direction of this journey and to drive commercial e-projects through from initial concept to delivery. As a key partner to the commercial units, the Digital Project Manager will seek out new digital tools and platforms and be a sparring partner in setting the digital agenda.

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Secret-Shopper-Style Study Shows Online Birth Control Prescription Overall Safe, Efficient

Web-based and digital-app services that offer oral contraception appear to be overall safe and efficient, according to the findings of a secret-shopper-style study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and UC Davis that analyzed the birth control prescription services of nine U.S. vendors.

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Guerbet and IBM Watson Health Announce a Second Co-Development Project as Part of their Strategic Partnership for Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging

Guerbet, a global specialist in contrast agents and solutions for diagnostic and interventional medical imaging, announced that it has signed a new agreement with IBM Watson Health to co-develop and co-commercialize an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to help clinicians diagnose and monitor patients with prostate cancer.

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Up-Close and Personal with Neuronal Networks

How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science. For decades, researchers have used electrodes to listen in on and record these signals. The patch clamp electrode, an electrode in a thin glass tube, revolutionized neurobiology in the 1970's with its ability to

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Open Call SC1-HCC-10-2020: Towards a Health Research and Innovation Cloud: Capitalising on Data Sharing Initiatives in Health Research

Technological innovation has triggered an unprecedented increase in data production in health research and healthcare. The need to make EU health research data FAIR (i.e., Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) becomes more pressing than ever before if European health research is to reap the full benefits of this valuable resource.

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