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Professor of Medical Informatics

The professorship belongs to the TUM School of Medicine, one of Germany's top medical schools in research and teaching. The professorship will be part of the Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology at TUM's university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, which focuses on translational information processing, information integration, information security and data privacy.

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Hospital Diagnoses Critically Ill Children Using Artificial Intelligence

The Rady Children’s Hospital (San Diego, USA) used Moon, software developed by the Leuven-based (Belgium) company Diploid. Moon is the first software worldwide to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the diagnosis of rare diseases. This new method accelerates the diagnosis of seriously ill children in intensive care and opens the door to the use of genome sequencing as a first-line diagnostic test for babies with unknown disorders.

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The Mobile Game that can Detect Alzheimer's Risk

A specially designed mobile phone game can detect people at risk of Alzheimer's - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied gaming data from an app called Sea Hero Quest, which has been downloaded and played by more than 4.3 million people worldwide.

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Full Professor in Digital Health (M/F) at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)

The newly recruited professor will join the LCSB - an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Luxembourg. At LCSB we accelerate biomedical research by closing the link between systems biology and medical research.

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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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Strategy Consultant Healthcare

Do you want to work in the fastest growing industry sectors i.e. Digital Health? Do you appreciate working in an entrepreneurial atmosphere with consulting expertise and focus on digital strategy in healthcare? We have an exciting opportunity for you at Research2Guidance, one of the leading digital strategy companies, focusing on digital Health since 2010.

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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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