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Philips Announces Collaboration with Medtronic to Further Advance the Image-Guided Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced a collaboration with Medtronic to further advance treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), a common heart rhythm disorder. Through the agreement, Medtronic will facilitate sales of products on behalf of Philips to provide an innovative, integrated image guidance solution for cryoablation procedures.

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What Do Parents of Children with Cancer Search for Online?

When a child has cancer, what kind of information do parents seek out? Analyzing their online searches to obtain health-related information offers one window into their concerns, and provides insight into how healthcare providers may offer family education and support. Oncology researchers who investigated parents' online Google searches found that,

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Social Media Has Limited Effects on Teenage Life Satisfaction

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, used an eight-year survey of UK households (Understanding Society, part of the UK Household Longitudinal Study) to study how long teenagers spent using social media on a normal school day and their corresponding life satisfaction ratings.

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Novartis Presents First-of-its-Kind Algorithm-Based Tool to Help MS Patients and Physicians

Novartis today announced results from a validation study of the innovative, algorithm-based digital solution MS Progression Discussion Tool, or MSProDiscussTM. The tool aims to support and facilitate a discussion between physicians and patients living with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have transitioned, or are at risk of transitioning from relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) to secondary progressive MS (SPMS)[1].

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Mobile Prenatal App Shown to Reduce in-Person Visits During Pregnancy

Using the mobile app Babyscripts reduced in-person prenatal care visits while maintaining patient and provider satisfaction, according to research published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth by physician researchers from the George Washington University (GW).

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Senior Product Manager eHealth Solutions

Do you want to help create the future of healthcare? Our name, Siemens Healthineers, was selected to honor our people who dedicate their energy and passion to this cause. It reflects their pioneering spirit combined with our long history of engineering in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.

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Chipmunk Health Chooses Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform to Roll Out and Scale Up its Telehealth Services

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced that telehealth service provider Chipmunk Health, with locations in the Netherlands and Canada, is leveraging the capabilities and services of Philips' HealthSuite digital platform to roll out its new GP-to-patient home monitoring solutions.

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Bayer Joins Sensyne Health Consortium Working on National Linked Patient Data Capability for Accelerating the Discovery of New Medicines

Sensyne Health plc (LSE: SENS), the British clinical AI technology company, and Bayer, the life sciences company, announce that Bayer has become Sensyne Health's preferred pharmaceutical partner to work together on the development of a national linked patient data capability. Bayer joins Microsoft, EY, JP Morgan, and Peel Hunt in this consortium.

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AstraZeneca Starts Artificial Intelligence Collaboration to Accelerate Drug Discovery

AstraZeneca and BenevolentAI began a long-term collaboration to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for the discovery and development of new treatments for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

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Red Hat Helps Public Health England Use Open Source to Pursue Hybrid Cloud Operations

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Public Health England (PHE), an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, is using Red Hat's open hybrid cloud technologies to support modern digital public health services in the UK.

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