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New Web Tool Fights Antibacterial Resistance

In 1943, two scientists named Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria conducted an experiment to show that bacteria can mutate randomly, independent of external stimulus, such as an antibiotic that threatens a bacterial cells' survival. Today the Luria-Delbrück experiment is widely used in laboratories for a different purpose - scientists use this classic experiment to determine microbial mutation rates.

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DigiHealthDay-2021 @ DIT-ECRI - Second Call & Update: Exclusive Summer Events

Countries around the world experienced many benefits of Digital Health during this pandemic than ever before, and there is now an increasing attention on Digital Health from healthcare professionals, patients, stakeholders, policymakers, and payers. European Campus Rottal-Inn recognizes this and continues their academic focus on the exchange of knowledge in Digital Health through DigiHealthDay-2021.

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Open Call#2 for Accelerating Data-Driven Solutions to Save Lives from COVID-19

The consortium of COVID-X announces the launch of Open Call #2 for a unique acceleration programme in Europe to fast-track to market 15+ European data technology solutions, addressing COVID-19 challenges and facilitating an innovative stack of AI-driven tools in order to defeat the pandemic.

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Orion Health Solutions Listed on Latest NHS London Procurement Partnership Framework

Orion Health has been listed on the latest NHS London Procurement Partnership framework developed to give NHS organisations access to modern digital technology.

The company has been listed on the Clinical Digital Solutions Framework for three solutions critical to the development of integrated care and population health management.

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Philips and Elekta Deepen Strategic Partnership in Precise and Individualized Oncology Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), and Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) signed agreements to deepen their existing strategic partnership to advance comprehensive and personalized cancer care through precision oncology solutions.

The extended collaboration builds on the two companies’ successful cooperation in the fast-emerging field of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided adaptive radiation therapy.

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EU Digital COVID Certificate

The EU Digital COVID Certificate has reached another important milestone with the go-live of the technical system at EU level, which allows to verify certificates in a secure and privacy-friendly way. The EU certificate was proposed by the Commission to resume safe travelling this summer. It will be free of charge, secure and accessible to all.

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CDISC Teams Up with Microsoft to Develop Open-Source Software for the Clinical Research Community

CDISC is teaming up with Microsoft to develop the CDISC Open Rules Engine (CORE), open-source software that executes machine-readable CDISC Conformance Rules. The global clinical research community will be able to leverage the CORE software to test study data for conformance to CDISC standards as well as regulatory and sponsor-specific conformance rule sets.

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FDA Authorizes Marketing of Diagnostic Aid for Autism Spectrum Disorder

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of a device to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Cognoa ASD Diagnosis Aid is a machine learning-based software intended to help health care providers diagnose ASD in children 18 months through 5 years of age who exhibit potential symptoms of the disorder.

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A Whole Week of Digital Health: DMEA Looks Forward to a Wide-Ranging Program of Events

7 - 11 June 2021, Berlin, Germany.
What IT solutions are there that can help to combat the pandemic? How is the digital transformation progressing in hospitals? What feedback is there from medical apps? These are just some of the questions that DMEA - Connecting Digital Health will be asking. Europe's leading event for digital health will be taking place from 7 to 11 June 2021 as an entirely virtual event.

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Helping Doctors Manage COVID-19

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is capable of assessing the severity of COVID-19 cases with a promising degree of accuracy.

A study, which is part of the COVID-Net open-source initiative launched more than a year ago, involved researchers from Waterloo and spin-off start-up company DarwinAI, as well as radiologists at the Stony Brook School of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

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