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MEDICA 2021 + COMPAMED 2021: Holding these Trade Fairs in-Person has Brought them Back to Life

15 - 18 November 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany.
This week, all of the big decision makers and professional experts from the international healthcare industry will finally be making their way to Düsseldorf once more. The world-leading medical trade fair MEDICA and COMPAMED, the leading international supplier trade fair, will relaunch in-person then. From Monday to Thursday, MEDICA's 2,900 exhibitors and COMPAMED's 490 exhibitors will arrive from a total of 70 countries and fly their flags in the trade fair halls.

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Siemens Healthineers and UCSF Create First Carbon-Neutral Radiology Imaging Service

Siemens Healthineers and UC San Francisco have formed a research and innovation-driven collaboration to make radiological imaging greener, while improving access to and quality of radiological imaging in Northern California. The agreement will also explore artificial intelligence in radiology, clinical data and image integration, and quantitative imaging.

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Bittium Exhibits its High-Tech Medical Technology Products and R&D Services for Medical and Healthcare Technology

Bittium exhibits its innovative products and solutions for cardiology and neurophysiology as well as R&D services for the development of medical and healthcare technology at the MEDICA 2021 event. It is the world's biggest trade fair for the medical market, and it will be organized in Düsseldorf, Germany on November 15-18, 2021.

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Development of AI Technology for Producing CT Images Based on MRI

Transcranial focused ultrasound can be used to treat degenerative movement disorders, intractable pain, and mental disorders by delivering ultrasound energy to a specific area of the brain without opening the skull. This treatment must be performed with an image-based technology that can locate the brain lesions. Doctors typically use CT to obtain information about a patient's skull that is difficult to identify with MRI alone and to accurately focus the ultrasound on the lesions through the skull.

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New App Helps Parents Identify Treatable Childhood Growth Disorders Earlier

A ground-breaking new, mobile phone app, 'GrowthMonitor' places the accurate measurement of children's height in the hands of parents and carers. Preliminary data to be presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Edinburgh suggests that the app could reliably identify treatable growth disorders, much earlier, with significant improvements in child health.

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Tulane University Study Uses AI to Detect Colorectal Cancer

A Tulane University researcher found that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately detect and diagnose colorectal cancer from tissue scans as well or better than pathologists, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.

The study, which was conducted by researchers from Tulane, Central South University in China, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Temple University, and Florida State University, was designed to test whether AI could be a tool to help pathologists keep pace with the rising demand for their services.

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Health Meets IT: DMEA Newcomer Award Invites Entries

26 - 28 April 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Digitalisation of our healthcare sector must be stepped up - the experience of recent months has shown that. It is why new ideas on how to successfully shape the transition are in demand. Once again, DMEA - Connecting Digital Health, Europe's largest event for health IT - is providing a platform for these ideas and the brilliant minds behind them. This event is where next year the best graduate papers on the topic of digitalisation in the healthcare sector will be honoured again.

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DMEA Call for Papers: Digital Health in All its Diversity

26 - 28 April 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Health meets digitalisation. From 26 to 28 April 2022 DMEA - Connecting Digital Health, the leading platform for health IT, is opening its doors again on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds.

Experts representing business and science as well as practitioners are invited to shape next year's all-day event programme with their contributions. From now until 2 December they can submit their papers for this event.

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Giving AI Penalties to Get Better Diagnoses

Anyone waiting for the results of a medical test knows the anxious question: 'Will my life change completely when I know?' And the relief if you test negative.

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed more and more to predict life-threatening disease. But there remains a big challenge in getting the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms precise enough.

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First-of-its-Kind Healthcare Communications App Inspired by the Challenges of COVID-19 Signs First Agreement with Acute NHS Trust

A web and mobile app-based start-up launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to help UK healthcare professionals communicate with patients has signed its first commercial agreement with a hospital trust.

The Oxford-based CardMedic app, which offers online flashcards to guide patients through common clinical interactions, will be now available to healthcare professionals across University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

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