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Beware Using Telemedicine for Voice and Speech Therapy

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, people across the world have experienced how teleconferencing platforms like Zoom help folks stay connected - playing games with friends, hosting virtual weddings, and even visiting a doctor. But when it comes to telemedicine, not all medical care is easily translated to a remote format.

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CSAM Health Wins National Agreement for Danish eHealth Blood Bank Solution

CSAM Health Group AS ("CSAM"), the leading provider of niche eHealth solutions in the Nordics, announced it has signed a contract with the five regions within the Danish health authority for CSAM’s Prosang blood, cell, and tissue management system for blood banks. In an agreement between CSAM and all five health regions, the new contract will translate to approximately NOK 75-100 million NOK over at the next six years and will be implemented in all blood banks in the country.

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Hampshire and the Isle of Wight's Care and Health Information Exchange Completes Move to Orion Health Platform

One of the oldest and most extensive shared care records in England has successfully completed its transition to Orion Health, creating a platform for further expansion and development.

The Care and Health Information Exchange (CHIE), which started as the Hampshire Health Record 17 years ago, successfully completed the move in March and saw usage increase to a record 130,000 patient records viewed in June.

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Trusts can't Run Faster, so it's Time for IT to Work Smarter

Opinion Article by Jamie Whysall, Head of Healthcare, Fujitsu UK.
The NHS is being asked to do more. That isn't new in itself, but the demands that are being put on trusts and their IT teams are being ratcheted up by the coronavirus pandemic.

They are being asked to prepare for more COVID-19 and a difficult winter. To recover the backlog of elective care that has developed over the past 18-months. To change in response to the arrival of integrated care systems and their agenda of more joined-up, more person-centred care.

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Amadeus Integrates IBM Digital Health Pass Into Its Digital Health Verification Technology

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Amadeus (MCE: AMS) announced that they are working together to help meet one of the major challenges facing travel companies today: checking and validating the COVID-19 health documentation of travelers at checkpoints where required.

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Surrey Builds AI to Find Anti-Ageing Chemical Compounds

The University of Surrey has built an artificial intelligence (AI) model that identifies chemical compounds that promote healthy ageing - paving the way towards pharmaceutical innovations that extend a person's lifespan.

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Artificial Intelligence Models to Analyze Cancer Images Take Shortcuts that Introduce Bias

Artificial intelligence tools and deep learning models are a powerful tool in cancer treatment. They can be used to analyze digital images of tumor biopsy samples, helping physicians quickly classify the type of cancer, predict prognosis and guide a course of treatment for the patient.

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Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust to Level-Up Digital Ambitions Following Aspirant Funding Success

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHT) will receive £6m funding as part of the second wave of the Digital Aspirant programme.

The funding will support its five-year digital strategy, which aims to take the trust from a HIMSS rating of around 0.02 to level 6 in five years, as well as supporting its involvement in the region’s shared care record.

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Policy, Progress, Pace: Is the NHS Finally Able to Move Past Siloed Tech?

Opinion Article by Lynette Ousby, UK Managing Director, Alcidion.
There is a new energy emerging that might shake up the health tech market, and long-embedded challenges around siloed data and technologies.

Political will to move away from data being locked-in by deployed electronic patient record (EPR) systems has been reinforced in the NHSX draft strategy 'Data Saves Lives'.

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New High-Tech Portal Launched to Speed Hearing Loss Innovations

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) launched a new online tool that could more quickly advance medical discoveries to reverse progressive hearing loss. The tool enables easy access to genetic and other molecular data from hundreds of technical research studies involving hearing function and the ear.

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