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Derby Starts Drive for Safer and more Informed Electronic Prescribing for Hospital Patients

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is collaborating with Royal Derby Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, on an initiative that will better alert doctors to genuine prescribing dangers, electronically link patient information and best practice to prescribing decisions, and improve patient safety whilst reducing pressure on staff.

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WHO Guideline: Recommendations on Digital Interventions for Health System Strengthening

Digital health, or the use of digital technologies for health, has become a salient field of practice for employing routine and innovative forms of information and communications technology (ICT) to address health needs. The term digital health is rooted in eHealth, which is defined as "the use of information and communications technology in support of health and health-related fields". Mobile health (mHealth) is a subset of eHealth and is defined as "the use of mobile wireless technologies for health". More recently, the term digital health was introduced as "a broad umbrella term encompassing eHealth (which includes mHealth), as well as emerging areas, such as the use of advanced computing sciences in 'big data', genomics and artificial intelligence".

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Can Science Writing be Automated?

The work of a science writer, including this one, includes reading journal papers filled with specialized technical terminology, and figuring out how to explain their contents in language that readers without a scientific background can understand. Now, a team of scientists at MIT and elsewhere has developed a neural network, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), that can do much the same thing,

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CardioSecur® Knows the History of your Heart

Cardiovascular diseases are still one of the most common causes of death worldwide, that is why today it is more important than ever to know about one's heart. The ideal method for detecting heart events is to perform ECG readings at regular intervals.

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Patients Given Unprecedented Access to X-Rays, Ultrasound and other Imaging

A network that connects every NHS acute hospital in England is giving thousands of patients unprecedented and easy online access to everything from their x-rays through to ultrasound, CT and MRI scans, and a great deal more.

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Croatia to Start the Exchange of ePrescriptions and Patient Summaries

For summer season, Croatia will dispense ePrescriptions for Finnish citizens and allow the access of Czech patient summaries, while Croatians travelling Estonia can get their ePrescriptions dispensed there. These exchanges will now be possible as the eHealth Network, comprising e-health agencies in Europe, agreed on 2 April 2019 that

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Have an Innovative Digital Health Solution? Partner with G4A

G4A Partnerships are a great opportunity to get your solution in front of Bayer executives and decision makers. All the applications will be reviewed by key stakeholders who have global visibility and responsibility. If selected for the challenge(s) you've applied to, you will engage in conversations with Bayer representatives to determine a model of partnership that is mutually beneficial.

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A Passion for Value-Based Innovations in Medicine

10 - 12 October 2019, Berlin, Germany.
International leaders in medicine aim at analyzing, evaluating, and incorporating the major developments in the field into the ecosystem of XPOMET Medicinale. These leaders forming the Medical Board met on 20 March to discuss the trending topics and how to approach them regarding the structure and goals of the Festival.

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Microsoft is Closing its HealthVault Service

Microsoft is notifying via e-mail the registered users of the HealthVault platform that the service will become unavailable on November 20, 2019. HealthVault is a service for storing personal health and medical records and information (a.k.a. PHR) so they can be shared with health professionals. The text of the e-mail from Microsoft reads:

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