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NHS Tayside Sign Up to Early Warning System Miya Observations

NHS Tayside has signed a five-year agreement with smart health tech provider Alcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system that will help thousands of busy healthcare professionals as they care for patients.

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Automation and Digitalization: Solutions within AUTOMA+ Healthcare 2022

26 - 27 September 2022, Zurich, Switzerland.
AUTOMA + Healthcare gathers leaders from hospitals & healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, governmental bodies and institutions with the main goal to contribute to further development of ongoing digital health trends. AUTOMA+ Healthcare is organized as a place to present case-studies, exchange experience in digital transformation and network.

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Pilot Study Suggests AI could Help Assess, Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes

Heart transplantation can be a lifesaving operation for patients with end-stage heart failure. However, many patients experience organ transplant rejection, in which the immune system begins attacking the transplanted organ. But detecting transplant rejection is challenging - in its early stages, patients may not experience symptoms, and experts do not always agree on the degree and severity of the rejection.

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AI Provides Accurate Breast Density Classification

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool can accurately and consistently classify breast density on mammograms, according to a study in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.

Breast density reflects the amount of fibroglandular tissue in the breast commonly seen on mammograms. High breast density is an independent breast cancer risk factor, and its masking effect of underlying lesions reduces the sensitivity of mammography.

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Ground-Breaking Leicester Atrial Fibrillation Management Goes Virtual

People in Leicester experiencing an irregular heart rhythm are set to benefit from virtual monitoring thanks to a new innovation at Leicester's Hospitals.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has become one of the first in the UK to create a remote monitoring ward for patients with atrial fibrillation.

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Philips Expands its Cybersecurity Services Portfolio for Healthcare Providers

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the expansion of its medical device cybersecurity services portfolio at HIMSS22. Philips is introducing Secure Remote Access Management Service [1], leveraging the broad set of security capabilities enabled by the integration of SecureLink's critical access management and governance technology with Philips Remote Services' secure connectivity framework for technical and clinical support.

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Pharma Join Together to Achieve New Standards in Digital and Patient Innovation for Clinical Transformation

17 - 19 May 2022, Virtual.
On May 17th , 500+ of pharma's clinical innovation will come together for the home of clinical collaboration, Reuters Events: Pharma Clinical 2022, to set new standards in digital and patient innovation for clinical transformation.

The catalyst for this has been the accelerated technological adoption in clinical trials, but a general feeling still that enough isn't being done for patients, failing to develop co-created, data-driven, standardised and accountable trial design.

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Hospital-Affiliated Doctors Prescribe Fewer Antibiotics through Telehealth than Third-Party Physicians

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for telemedicine boomed - increasing 63-fold among Medicare users alone from approximately 840,000 telehealth visits in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.

As more people flocked to telemedicine, health systems and increasingly implemented direct-to-consumer telehealth to provide convenient, safe options for acute care. But it was unknown how these services varied in quality of care.

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Allscripts to Sell the Net Assets of Its Hospitals & Large Physician Practices Business Segment to Constellation Software

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX) ("Allscripts") has reached an agreement with Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU), through its wholly-owned subsidiary N. Harris Computer Corporation ("Harris"), to sell Harris the net assets of Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment.

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Philips Recognized in 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Digital Health Platforms

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has been included in the Gartner "Market Guide for Digital Health Platform for Healthcare Providers" report [1], as well as the "Competitive Landscape for Digital Health Platforms" [2]. According to Gartner, "by 2024, healthcare providers that have adopted a digital health platform approach will outpace competition and partners by 80% in the speed of digital transformation and new feature implementation."

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