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Digital Mental Health support to be Provided to Young People as they Return to School

SilverCloud, the leading digital therapeutics provider, has partnered with mental health charity Northpoint Wellbeing to co-develop a new digital therapy programme to alleviate anxiety in young people. Coming at a time when children are returning to school and face huge uncertainty, it will be available for school clusters across the Leeds area and NHS Child and Adolescent Services Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Calderdale.

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NHS Trust Revolutionises Access to Mental Health Services for Young People

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has selected the DXC Open Health Connect platform from DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) and is creating a blueprint that could dramatically reduce mental health referral times in order to provide the right assistance for at-risk children through the use of digital technology.

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Computer Modelling Predicts where Vaccines Are Needed Most

Researchers have developed a model that can estimate regional disease burden and the impact of vaccination, even in the absence of robust surveillance data, a study in eLife reveals.

The report, originally published on May 26, highlights areas that would have the greatest benefit from initiating a vaccination programme against the virus, Japanese encephalitis (JE).

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Bluetooth Technology, the Best Ally to Detect COVID-19 Cases through Smartphone Contact Tracing

"Tracers have been and are essential to manage the pandemic. Today, the tracing is done by hand and this work is slow and inaccurate. However, as we have seen, technology can be highly useful: contact tracing with smartphones and smartclocks help find out who has been in contact with an infected person, thanks to the use of

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Artificial Intelligence can Improve How Chest Images Are Used in Care of COVID-19 Patients

According to a recent report by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to expand the role of chest X-ray imaging - using computed tomography, or CT - in diagnosing and assessing coronavirus infection so that it can be more than just a means of screening for signs of COVID-19 in a patient's lungs.

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Highland Marketing Welcomes New Member to its Advisory Board

Highland Marketing has welcomed a new member to its advisory board of respected NHS IT leaders and health tech industry professionals.

Nicola Haywood-Alexander, a chief information officer and digital transformation adviser, who has worked in both the NHS and the wider public sector, has joined the expert group that provides advice to the health tech agency and its clients.

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Philips Launches Next Generation Wearable Biosensor for Early Patient Deterioration Detection, Including Clinical Surveillance for COVID-19

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its wearable biosensor (Philips Biosensor BX100) to help manage confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients in the hospital.

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Mental Health Prescribing Goes Digital at Humber, Enhancing Patient Safety

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, with services focused on citizens across a large area of Yorkshire, has gone live with DXC Lorenzo Electronic Prescribing and Medication Management (ePMA), a new digital approach to prescribing and administering medicines for NHS mental health professionals.

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First Virtual DMEA to Open with a Wide Range of Topics

16 - 18 June 2020, Berlin, Germany.
Under the heading 'DMEA sparks' and taking place for the first time, this year's DMEA is an entirely virtual event. From 16 to 18 June 2020 a wide-ranging programme of events including panels, keynote speeches and webinars can be accessed on the new platform.

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Researchers Identify Healthcare Data Defects

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have developed a method to investigate the quality of healthcare data using a systematic approach, which is based on creating a taxonomy for data defects thorough literature review and examination of data. Using that taxonomy, the researchers developed software that automatically detects data defects effectively and efficiently.

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