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Philips and NHS Implement the First Regional Data Integration Hub for UK's National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), announced it has supported the NHS' Cheshire and Merseyside consortium [1] to become the first regional hub supplying the United Kingdom's National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID). The NCCID is a centralized database containing X-Ray, CT and MRI images from hospital patients across the country.

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Telemedicine Improves Access to High-Quality Sleep Care

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recently published an update on the use of telemedicine for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders to reflect lessons learned from the transition to telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and the benefits of continuing to utilize remote care when appropriate.

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FDA Grants Oxehealth Vital Signs De Novo Clearance; Oxehealth Launches in the US

Oxehealth has announced another world first after the US Food and Drug Administration granted a De Novo clearance for its Oxehealth Vital Signs product, which is incorporated into Oxevision, the vision-based patient monitoring and management platform delivered as software as a service.

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Philips Partners with Orbita to Develop Conversational Voice and Chatbot Applications to Complement its Telehealth Solutions

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Orbita Inc., an innovative provider of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for healthcare, announced a partnership agreement to co-create next-generation conversational virtual assistants for Philips' consumer health and patient support applications.

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CliniSys Group Creates Single Brand for UK and Europe

CliniSys Group has created a single brand for its businesses in the UK and Europe, with a refreshed logo and a new website.

The move creates a unified identity for CliniSys in the UK and MIPS on the continent and underlines the group's commitment to providing end-to-end diagnostic systems to support safe and effective healthcare systems today and to drive medical innovation in the future.

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Early Warning System for Intensive Care Units

Life-threatening situations occur time and again in an intensive care unit. To make sure that doctors can intervene in time, a team at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB) has developed AI-based software that regularly evaluates all monitoring data and alerts staff before a critical situation is reached. With the establishment of x-cardiac GmbH, these AI-based monitoring systems have now become market-ready medical products.

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DMEA 2021: Digital Health. 100 % Virtual.

7 - 11 June 2021, Berlin, Germany.
An entire week dominated by digital healthcare! With that in mind, early in June DMEA 2021 will be kicking off with a wide range of topics. This year, more than 100 program and partner sessions featuring lectures, discussions and other formats await visitors to Europe's largest event for the health IT sector.

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East Lancashire Signs Deal for Early Warning Technology from Alcidion

Thousands of NHS professionals across five hospitals in East Lancashire are to benefit from early warning technology that will help them detect and swiftly respond to deteriorating patients in need of urgent attention.

Alcidion's Patientrack system will help staff intervene early to prevent harm when patients show signs of worsening conditions.

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Marketing and Communication Manager Europe

Agfa HealthCare is looking for talented Marketing & Communication Manager to join our Region Europe's team.

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Child Brain Tumours can be Classified by Advanced Imaging and AI

Diffusion weighted imaging and machine learning can successfully classify the diagnosis and characteristics of common types of paediatric brain tumours a UK-based multi-centre study, including WMG at the University of Warwick has found. This means that the tumour can be characterised and treated more efficiently.

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