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NHS Trusts in Teesside and Kent Deploy Smart IT to Further Improve Patient Safety in Advance of Winter

As the NHS in all four nations continues preparations to manage winter clinical pressures, two NHS trusts have accelerated deployment of modules of their smart Electronic Patient Record Systems (EPRs), aimed at further improving patient safety in busy clinical settings while introducing efficiencies to streamline patients’ hospital stays.

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Philips Extends AI-Enabled CT Imaging Portfolio at RSNA 2021

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced new additions to its CT imaging portfolio at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting (November 28 - December 2, Chicago, USA). The new CT 5100 - Incisive - features CT Smart Workflow[1], a comprehensive suite of artificial intelligence* (AI) enabled capabilities designed to

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Virtual Reality Tool to be Used in the Fight Against Disease

Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now revolutionised the way this data is analysed - by using 3D video gaming technology. The study is published in the journal iScience.

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Researchers Outline in Science How Brain Research Makes New Demands on Supercomputing

"Understanding the brain in all its complexity requires insights from multiple scales - from genomics, cells and synapses to the whole-organ level. This means working with large amounts of data, and supercomputing is becoming an indispensable tool to tackle the brain," says Katrin Amunts, Scientific Director of the Human Brain Project (HBP), Director of the C. and O. Vogt-Institute of Brain Research, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) at Research Centre Jülich.

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Philips Integrates MedChat's AI Capabilities to Optimize Automated Patient Communication and Hospital Workflows

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced a collaboration with USA-based MedChat to integrate MedChat's live chat and AI-driven chatbot services into Philips Patient Navigation Manager, helping improve call center efficiency and speed the time to resolve patient inquiries.

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MEDICA 2021 and COMPAMED 2021 have Far Exceeded Expectations

15 - 18 November 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany.
After their four-day run as an in-person event, MEDICA and COMPAMED have achieved extremely successful results in Düsseldorf. From 15 to 18 November 2021, the world's leading information and communication platforms for the medical technology industry and its supplier sector presented a wealth of convincing innovations as well as an accompanying programme that covered a wide range of topics (supplemented by digital offers) and did justice to their internationally prestigious position.

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Open Call DIGITAL-2021-DEPLOY-01-HEALTH: Uptake of Digital Solutions in Health and Care

The consolidation of a European framework and ecosystem of digital health solutions and services, covering technological and organisational innovation and addressing the needs of the involved stakeholders, including those of SMEs and start-ups.

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Dedalus Acquires Swiftqueue to Support Patients in Accessing Healthcare Services through a Digital Front Door

Dedalus Group ("Dedalus"), a leading international healthcare software solutions provider, has announced to have completed the acquisition of 100% of Swiftqueue Technologies Ltd a fast-growing cloud-native appointment and scheduling solution provider.

The Cloud-native Swiftqueue solution enables patients and citizens to access healthcare services provided from hospitals, clinics and specialists through a digital front door.

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Report

This study presents an overview of the development, adoption and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications in the healthcare sector across all Member States. The main aim of this study was to support the European Commission in identifying and addressing any issues that might be hindering the wider adoption of AI technologies in the healthcare sector. The study will help the Commission to take action to achieve its long-term goal on the effective implementation of AI in the healthcare sector, based around common legislation and policy framework.

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FDA Authorizes Marketing of Virtual Reality System for Chronic Pain Reduction

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized marketing of EaseVRx, a prescription-use immersive virtual reality (VR) system that uses cognitive behavioral therapy and other behavioral methods to help with pain reduction in patients 18 years of age and older with diagnosed chronic lower back pain.

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