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Softphone App to Save NHS up to £20 Million in GP Triage Call Costs

GPs and patients are to benefit from a new softphone app that will eliminate almost all the "hidden cost" of calls for remote consultations and is forecast to save the NHS as much as £20 million over three years.

The app will mean patient calls to their GP are free and in turn reduce the cost to GPs and practices for outgoing calls by around 75%.

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More than 1,000 Exhibitors have Already Registered for virtual.MEDICA + virtual.COMPAMED

16 - 19 November 2020, Düsseldorf, Germany.
This year, the world's largest and leading medical trade fair, MEDICA, and the number one international event for the medical technology manufacturing supplier market, COMPAMED, will take place as virtual events due to the pandemic. This digital format will continue to strengthen their roles as global leaders.

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Ultrapotent COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Designed via Computer

An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the pandemic coronavirus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels ten-times greater than is seen in people who have recovered from COVID-19 infections. Designed by scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, the vaccine candidate has been transferred to two companies for clinical development.

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Healthcare App Reduces Symptoms of COPD Compared to Regular Treatment

COPD is a common respiratory condition and one of the top causes of hospital admissions each year, particularly during winter months. In the UK it accounts for over 140,000 hospital admissions and one million bed days at a major cost to the NHS.

At a time when fewer people are able to access face-to-face consultations with their GPs and elderly patients with conditions such as COPD need are shielding, these are very encouraging findings for the future of digital health services.

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Early Results from DETECT Study Suggest Fitness Trackers can Predict COVID-19 Infections

Examining data from the first six weeks of their landmark DETECT study, a team of scientists from the Scripps Research Translational Institute sees encouraging signs that wearable fitness devices can improve public health efforts to control COVID-19.

The DETECT study, launched on March 25, uses a mobile app to collect smartwatch and activity tracker data from consenting participants, and also gathers their self-reported symptoms and diagnostic test results.

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Digital Health Data Scientist

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Philips Empowers Medical Image Access for over 5,000 Clinicians in the Region of Southern Denmark

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced the completion of a regional informatics project that consolidates radiology and nuclear medicine imaging data. The Region of Southern Denmark now has a single system for storing, retrieving, and viewing clinical images across all the locations and specialties in its extensive healthcare system.

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Researchers Present Findings on Role of Google Search Early in COVID-19 Pandemic

Non-generic queries in the online tool Google Trends may yield better insight into health information-seeking behavior, according to a new study by researchers from the George Washington University (GW).

Google TrendsTM analyzes the popularity of top Google queries geographically and longitudinally. More recently it has been used as a surveillance and retrospective epidemiological tool to study the impact of COVID-19 around the world.

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Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services to Run New Lighthouse Lab with CliniSys Support

Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services has been given the go-ahead to run one of the new NHS lighthouse laboratories. It will form part of NHS Test and Trace, joining Britain's largest network of diagnostic testing facilities increasing coronavirus testing capacity by tens of thousands.

The new laboratory at Bracknell Healthspace, Brants Bridge, will use the CliniSys WinPath Enterprise laboratory information system to efficiently manage up to 40,000 tests per day when running at full capacity.

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SimonMed Imaging Partners with Philips to Deploy New Diagnostic Imaging Technology to Advance Radiology Workflow Performance

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced that SimonMed Imaging, one of the largest outpatient imaging providers in the U.S., will bring the most advanced 3T MRI Philips technology to its centers of excellence across the U.S. The first MR systems, placed in California, Arizona, Illinois and Colorado, will feature software and services to enhance diagnoses ranging from brain injuries, liver and cardiac disease, to orthopedic injuries.

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