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Best of Breed: Start with Data in Open Platforms

Better is attending this year's Digital Health Rewired conference and exhibition at Olympia London alongside Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which is using its open platform to develop an electronic patient record.

The company will have a stand and a speaking slot at the leading industry event, and will use the opportunity to discuss the best way for trusts to make a success of the 'best of breed' approach to EPR with the UK health tech community.

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Boehringer Ingelheim Launches Patient-Centric MyStudyWindow Powered by Carebox

Boehringer Ingelheim and Carebox Healthcare Solutions announced the recent launch of MyStudyWindow, a digital platform empowering patients, families, caregivers, and doctors to learn about Boehringer Ingelheim's studies by offering information in an easy to access and understandable way.

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AlgoDx Raises 600 000 EUR in Seed Round to Develop Machine Learning Algorithm Diagnostics

Stockholm-based AlgoDx, which focuses on supporting disease detection and prediction with machine learning algorithms, has closed a 6 MSEK (600 000 EUR) seed round led by Nascent Invest with participation from angel investors Fredrik Sjödin and Tomas Mora-Morrison, co-founder of Cambio Healthcare Systems.

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International Networking at DMEA 2020

21 - 23 April 2020, Berlin, Germany.
DMEA has become international - as Europe's largest event for digital healthcare DMEA is drawing visitors from outside Germany again. They can all look forward to a special program of discussion and talk formats that is being hosted in partnership with Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), the business promotion organization of the federal government.

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AI Has Helped to Better Understand How Human Brain Performs Face Recognition

Scientists from Salk Institute (USA), Skoltech (Russia), and Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their different expressions and how they are organized. The research was recently published in Neural Computation and highlighted on its cover.

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Philips Named a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator for the 7th Consecutive Year

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has again been recognized as a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator™ in Clarivate Analytics' annual analysis of the global innovation ecosystem. The Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators report identifies the world's most innovative organizations, those that successfully develop

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New Tool Aids Patients in Selecting a Transplant Center

A new website developed by researchers at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is making it easier for organ transplant candidates to choose which transplant center is right for them. The website, transplantcentersearch.org, was developed for candidates seeking kidney, liver, heart and lung transplants. Data for liver centers is currently live. Data for other organs will soon be available.

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Surgeons Successfully Treat Brain Aneurysms Using a Robot

Using a robot to treat brain aneurysms is feasible and could allow for improved precision when placing stents, coils and other devices, according to late breaking science presented today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2020. The conference, Feb. 19-21 in Los Angeles, is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health.

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Do you want to be part of an international company that values your growth and wants to deliver meaningful impact to key industry players by fully understanding their business needs? Nortal is a multinational strategic change and technology company whose mission is to optimize and simplify complex processes to create a seamless society.

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Zooming in on Breast Cancer Reveals How Mutations Shape the Tumour Landscape

Scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of breast cancer ever achieved, revealing how genetic changes shape the physical tumour landscape, according to research funded by Cancer Research UK and published in Nature Cancer. An international team of scientists*, brought together by an ambitious £20 million Grand Challenge award from Cancer Research UK, has developed intricate maps of breast tumour samples, with a resolution smaller than a single cell.

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