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Clinical Researcher (Digital Health)

The University of Oxford is seeking a committed and enthusiastic post-foundation stage clinician with an interest in community-based care, to drive forward an emerging area of clinically-focussed translational research.

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Can Virtual Reality be Used to Manage Pain at a Pediatric Hospital?

Virtual reality has emerged into popular culture with an ever-widening array of applications including clinical use in a pediatric healthcare center. Children undergo necessary yet painful and distressing medical procedures every day, but very few non-pharmaceutical interventions have been found to successfully manage the pain and anxiety associated with these procedures.

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NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group Picks Orion Health for IDCR

NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group has signed a deal with Orion Health to develop an integrated digital care record (IDCR). The IDCR is being piloted by a rapid response team that has been set up to support people at home after a fall or deterioration in their health, and prevent unnecessary visits to hospital and repetition of information.

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B.Braun Accelerator Call for Innovative Solutions & Products

B. Braun is one of the world's leading providers and manufacturers of healthcare solutions today. The company employs more than 60,000 employees in 64 countries and is looking for European early-stage startups with working-prototypes in the HealthTech and MedTech sector for their upcoming accelerator program.

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Director, Digital Business Development and Partnering

The Chief Digital Organization (CDO) within Merck has been founded in 2016 by Merck’s CEO Stefan Oschmann as an integral institution to drive the Digital Transformation at Merck across all its businesses globally. The CDO has been strongly growing ever since and currently has 50+ digital experts on staff coming from world class organizations such as Google, Rocket Internet, and Expedia.

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Giving Rookie Dads the Online Info they Really Need

Expectant and new parents often turn to the internet for parenting prep, but it turns out that dads often don't seem to find the information they say they need about pregnancy, parenthood and routes to their own mental health and well-being. Now, a new study from a Canadian team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) with funding from global men's health charity the Movember Foundation highlights just what soon-to-be and new fathers want to see in a dad-focused website and how best to meet those needs.

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Free iPhone App could Guide MS Research, Treatment

For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that's needed to estimate severity or confirm a diagnosis. Not so for multiple sclerosis. No single lab test can tell doctors what type of MS a patient has, nor whether it's responding to treatment. But by better tracking patients' symptoms and potential triggers with help from a new iPhone app,

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Social Media Data Use Needs Tighter Research Controls

Information shared on social media is being regularly used in research projects without users' consent, a study suggests. Experts have called for tighter control of the practice, with fresh guidelines needed to ensure personal data is being used appropriately. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh say ethics frameworks around consent, privacy and ownership for such studies are not keeping pace with technological developments.

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Leading Health Systems Sign On to Deliver Population Health Management with the Philips Wellcentive Informatics Platform

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has announced the expanding adoption of its Population Health Management solutions with health systems across the globe, including HealthONE, an integrated delivery network (IDN) in Denver, Colorado. As healthcare organizations seek to transform their business models from fee-for-service toward more value-based care delivery,

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Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based on machine learning, which can independently interpret EEG signals from a premature infant and generate an estimate of the brain's functional maturity. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the method is the first EEG-based brain maturity evaluation system in the world.

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