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First Patient Multi-disciplinary Digital Care Plan in the World Highly Commended in Prestigious Awards

The London-wide service by Coordinate My Care powered by InterSystems HealthShare® has been highly commended in the medical software, systems and technology category at this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards, which celebrated successes in the NHS.

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Artificial Intelligence Sheds New Light on Cell Developmental Dynamics

What happens inside a cell when it is activated, changing, or responding to variations in its environment? Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research have developed a map of how to best model these cellular dynamics. Their work not only highlights the outstanding challenges of tracking cells throughout their growth and lifetime, but also pioneers new ways of evaluating computational biology methods that aim to do this.

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Virtual Reality could be Used to Treat Autism

Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. The technology, according to a recent study from the University of Waterloo, could help individuals with these neurological conditions shift their perceptions of time, which their conditions lead them to perceive differently.

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BridgIT, a New Tool for Orphan and Novel Enzyme Reactions

Effective protein engineering can give us control over the generated products inside a cell. However, for many of the biochemical reactions responsible for these products, we don't we don't know the specific protein- or enzyme-producing gene responsible. These reactions are called "orphan" and have become a big problem for protein engineers.

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MEDICA 2019: Clear Focus on Future Topics and Growth Markets

18 - 21 November 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany.
As a result of the final phase of exhibitor registrations for the world’s leading medical trade fare MEDICA 2019 in Düsseldorf, one thing is already apparent: Exhibitors have a positive view of the updated allocation of subjects to the trade fair halls and are aligning their participation to the new structure with regard to target group orientation and placement and are also, in part, expanding their presence.

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Google Research Shows How AI can Make Ophthalmologists More Effective

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, diagnosing disease faster and potentially with greater accuracy than physicians, some have suggested that technology may soon replace tasks that physicians currently perform. But a new study from the Google AI research group shows that physicians and algorithms working together are more effective than either alone.

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Digital Health Startups Manager

As Digital Health Startups Manager you drive collaboration projects that have been initiated in the Creasphere accelerator program together with Life Cycle Team (LCT), R&D, Business Development (BD) and other functions until transfer into full solution development or co-marketing.

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Digital Medicine: The Opportunities and Challenges Facing Doctors and Startups

9 - 11 April 2019, Berlin, Germany.
Be it preventive healthcare for dementia using intuitive apps, anonymous hospital hygiene inspections using IoT sensors, or VR applications that let hemiplegic patients live an independent life - new products are being presented by numerous eHealth startups at DMEA.

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Open Call SC1-HCC-02-2019: Support for the Large Scale Uptake of Open Service Platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing Domain

In the past years several open service platforms for Active and Healthy Ageing domains have been developed, originating from the medical, independent living, and IoT domain. These platforms aim at building a common basis for application development, assuring interoperability at the application and service level, and reducing development cost by re-use of components.

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Highland Marketing Forms Alliance with Experiential HealthTech

An alliance between Highland Marketing and Experiential HealthTech will be announced at this year's Digital Health Rewired, with both companies exhibiting from stand B14. Highland Marketing is a full-service marketing, content and PR agency, specialising in health technology, while Experiential HealthTech is an independent consultancy providing strategic analysis and advice to companies operating in health and the wider healthcare ecosystem.

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