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UK-Wide Medical Imaging Sharing System Expands Beyond Hospitals to 500 Institutions

The UK's globally unique deployment of a medical imaging sharing system called the Sectra Image Exchange Portal has expanded to a record reach, easing the flow of important patient information beyond hospitals and supporting the pandemic response.

A UK-wide digital medical imaging sharing system, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, has expanded to cover 500 institutions - enabling the secure sharing of essential medical imaging across the NHS and with other healthcare providers.

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Telehealth might be Best as a Supplement to Office Visits, not a Replacement

With the pandemic, there has been a rise in the use of virtual appointments for patients seeking health care. A new study by Tufts researchers, however, suggests that for many older and chronically ill patients, telehealth appointments may be most effective when they augment in-person health-care visits rather than fully replace them.

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Sectra Wins Four 2022 Best in KLAS Awards

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that its radiology module for enterprise imaging, Sectra PACS, has won the prestigious customer satisfaction award Best in KLAS. It has been ranked number one by healthcare providers for the ninth consecutive year in the US, third consecutive year in Canada, and for a first-time in Asia/Oceania.

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Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector

The healthcare industry faces challenges due to constantly changing conditions, including demographic transitions and the advancements we have achieved until now in health science and the healthcare industry. Life expectancy has increased, and we live longer with chronic diseases (Anderson & Hussey, 2000; Bongaart et al., 2015). This requires the healthcare industry to focus on an increasingly older population with a more complex disease burden than healthcare previously dealt with. As a direct consequence of the demographic shift, non-communicable and chronic diseases are becoming more prevalent, straining all health systems (Harris, 2019).

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NFTs Offer New Method to Control Personal Health Information

NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, created using blockchain technology, first made a splash in the art world as a platform to buy and sell digital art backed by a digital contract. But could NFT digital contracts be useful in other marketplaces? A global, multidisciplinary team of scholars in ethics, law and informatics led by bioethicists at Baylor College of Medicine wrote one of the first commentaries on how this new emerging technology could be repurposed for the healthcare industry.

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CliniSys Hires Mark Spencer as Senior Vice President of Global Strategy

CliniSys announced that Mark Spencer has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Global Strategy. A 25-year veteran in the life sciences and healthcare IT industry, Mark will be charged with driving growth globally.

As the world looks to improve public health now and after the pandemic, Mark will work closely with the senior leadership team to

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AUTOMA+ Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress 2022

26 - 27 September 2022, Zurich, Switzerland.
Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress is an annual B2B networking event, which is held on September, 26 - 27, 2022, in Zurich, Switzerland. More than 250 professionals from the whole value chain of the healthcare industry including Novo Nordisk, Lundbeck, Zuellig Pharma Limited and many others gather to present their case-studies, exchange their experience in digital transformation and network.

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Researchers Develop Highly Accurate Modeling Tool to Predict COVID-19 Risk

As new coronavirus variants emerge and quickly spread around the globe, both the public and policymakers are faced with a quandary: maintaining a semblance of normality, while also minimizing infections. While digital contact tracing apps offered promise, the adoption rate has been low, due in part to privacy concerns.

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More than 100,000 Unknown Viruses have been Discovered Using a New Computer Tool

Viruses are the largest known group of biological agents. Now, an international team of scientists with the participation of the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has taken an important step towards understanding their diversity.

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Philips and University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel Sign 10-Year Partnership to Advance Patient Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and the University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg, Germany) have signed a 10-year strategic partnership to renew and expand the hospital's diagnostic and therapy options through the delivery of advanced technology solutions.

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