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7th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE

18 - 21 November 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany.
What lengths do top athletes go to in order to reach peak performances and which findings in the field of professional sports are relevant for the public at large? These are just two of the questions that are being asked at this year's 7th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE (MMSC) on Wednesday, 20 November, and Thursday, 21 November 2019. The conference will take place in Düsseldorf as part of MEDICA 2019, the world’s leading medical trade fair with over 5,000 exhibitors.

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Cardio-Respiratory Synchronization may Represent a New Measure of Health and Fitness

Researchers from the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick have managed to expand the knowledge of the cardio-respiratory system after conducting an experiment measuring heart rate during fast-paced breathing. Published in Scientific Reports, the paper 'Control of heart rate through guided high-rate breathing' shows how researchers found it is possible to reliably observe a one-to-one relationship between heart beats and breaths, when breathing is controlled at a speed exceeding resting heart rate.

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Siemens Healthineers Cloud Platform "teamplay" Awarded European Privacy Seal for Data Protection

The cloud-based platform "teamplay"(1) by Siemens Healthineers, together with its applications teamplay Dose, teamplay Usage, teamplay Protocols, teamplay Images, and teamplay Images Research, has been awarded the European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe). The European Privacy Seal was first granted to teamplay in 2016, and must be regularly renewed.

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Review Evaluates How AI could Boost the Success of Clinical Trials

Big pharma and other drug developers are grappling with a dilemma: the era of blockbuster drugs is coming to an end. At the same time, adding new drugs to their portfolios is slow and expensive. It takes on average 10-15 years and $1.5-2B to get a new drug to market; approximately half of this time and investment is devoted to clinical trials.

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Are Fertility Apps Useful?

For many women of reproductive age, the most common way of assessing their menstrual health and fertility means regular visits to a gynecologist or another clinician. When it comes to evaluating changes in fertility, menstrual health, and quality of life, these visits typically rely on remembering, which can lead to significant inaccuracies in evaluation.

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Senior Digital and Innovation Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team with a large portfolio of responsibilities. The Senior Digital and Innovation Manager has a crucial role in supporting the delivery of several strategically important digital workstream components across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP).

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Siemens Healthineers, the University of Missouri and its Hospital System Announce Formation of New Strategic Alliance

Siemens Healthineers, University of Missouri System (UM System) and University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) launch "Alliance for Precision Health." The ten-year collaboration will bring the partners' expertise together to improve health care in Missouri State, promote education and launch research initiatives.

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Philips and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy Announce 10-Year Enterprise Informatics Agreement to Increase Efficiency and Improve Patient Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) de Nancy, a leading academic hospital in the Grand Est region of France, announced a 10-year agreement to implement Philips' IntelliSpace Enterprise Imaging Solution, including Illumeo with adaptive intelligence.

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Medtech Industry Calls on All Stakeholders to Support Digital Health Interoperability Standards Specified by the European Commission

MedTech Europe released today a call to action towards digital health interoperability, endorsing the European Commission's Electronic Health Record Exchange Format released on 6 February 2019. The statement also called on European national and regional health authorities, payers and procurers, and adjacent industries, to do the same.

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Allscripts Offers a New Option for Microsoft's HealthVault Users to Transition their Health Data

Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced its patient and consumer engagement platform, FollowMyHealth, as a platform for existing Microsoft HealthVault users to transition and share their health data with family, friends or their home care team when required. FollowMyHealth offers a streamlined option for users to export their existing data and continue tracking their health online or through its mobile apps on iOS and Android.

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