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The New Tattoo: Drawing Electronics on Skin

One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin. In a new study, University of Missouri engineers demonstrated that the simple combination of pencils and paper could be used to create devices that might be used to monitor personal health.

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Abbott Receives FDA Approval for New Heart Rhythm Devices Featuring Bluetooth Connectivity and Continuous Remote Monitoring

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's next-generation Gallant™ implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) devices. The devices bring new benefits to patients with heart rhythm disorders, including a patient-preferred design without compromising battery longevity and MRI compatibility.

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Chatbots can Ease Medical Providers' Burden, Offer Guidance to Those with COVID-19 Symptoms

COVID-19 has placed tremendous pressure on health care systems, not only for critical care but also from an anxious public looking for answers. Research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business found that chatbots - software applications that conduct online chats via text or text-to-speech - working for reputable organizations can ease the burden on medical providers and offer trusted guidance to those with symptoms.

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Towards an AI Diagnosis Like the Doctor's

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an important innovation in diagnostics, because it can quickly learn to recognize abnormalities that a doctor would also label as a disease. But the way that these systems work is often opaque, and doctors do have a better "overall picture" when they make the diagnosis.

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Philips Introduces First-of-a-Kind Mobile ICUs in India to Tackle COVID-19 and other Emergencies

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it introduced first-of-its-kind mobile Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in India. Designed to meet the critical-care requirements of patients, each prefabricated ICU has a capacity of nine beds.

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Researchers Develop Software to Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Washington State University researchers have developed an easy-to-use software program to identify drug-resistant genes in bacteria. The program could make it easier to identify the deadly antimicrobial resistant bacteria that exist in the environment. Such microbes annually cause more than 2.8 million difficult-to-treat pneumonia, bloodstream and other infections and 35,000 deaths in the U.S.

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Research Shows Telehealth is an Important Tool for Rural Hospitals in Treating COVID-19

Rural hospitals are more likely than urban facilities to have access to telehealth, a once-underused service that now is playing a key role in treating coronavirus patients, according to research by two health administration professors in Florida Atlantic University's College of Business.

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EUR 36 Million EU Funding Available to Connect Europe Digitally

The 2020-2 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom call for proposals is now open, making €36 million available to stimulate and support the deployment of European Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) in eight areas. CEF Telecom funding supports projects of common interest that improve the daily life of citizens, businesses and public administrations and contribute to the development of a Digital Single Market by deploying European digital infrastructures across the EU.

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Start-Ups Launch at MEDICA - The Creative Founder Scene is More in Demand than Ever Right Now

16 - 19 November 2020, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The MEDICA, the world's leading medical trade fair held in Düsseldorf, was one of the very first events across all industries to offer young companies in their founding phase special programme formats to present their concepts many years ago. It has subsequently become the international number one for health start-ups too. The creative and predominantly digitally driven start-up scene will be the centre of attention once again at MEDICA 2020.

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Highland Marketing Advisory Board: How Do We Secure a 'Second Wave of Innovation' Post-COVID-19?

The Highland Marketing advisory board has been discussing the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the deployment of health tech in the NHS.

At its March meeting, which took place just after UK prime minister Boris Johnson instructed people to "stay at home", members noted the rapid roll-out of remote working and virtual consultation tools, which are unlikely to be abandoned once the emergency is over.

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