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HIMSS and Health 2.0 Take the Most Influential Digital Health Conference to Finland

11 - 13 June 2019, Helsinki, Finland.
The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference will be held on 11 - 13 June 2019 in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The conference will bring the best of both worlds: HIMSS' knowledge, expertise and thought leadership in healthcare digitisation and Health 2.0's network of entrepreneurs and investors, showcasing the latest cutting edge and innovative health tech solutions.

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Virtual Reality - the Panacea for a Growing Mental Health Crisis?

Opinion article by Barnaby Perks, CEO of Oxford VR.
The World Health Organisation puts mental illnesses among the leading causes of disease and disability in the world, with depressive disorders the fourth leading cause of global disease burden. By 2020, it expects mental health to rank second behind ischaemic heart disease.

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Three Winners of 2019 Sandoz Healthcare Access Challenge (HACk) are Announced at SXSW

Sandoz, a Novartis division, announced the winners of the 2019 Sandoz Healthcare Access Challenge (HACk). Sandoz HACk invites entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of digital technology to submit ideas with the potential to complement - or even positively disrupt - established approaches to driving access to healthcare.

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Computer-Designed Vaccine Elicits Potent Antibodies

A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been designed in an international research effort. RSV is second only to malaria as a cause of infant mortality worldwide. The new vaccine elicits potent neutralizing antibodies against RSV in both mice and monkeys. The animal research findings, reported March 7 in the journal Cell, pave the way for human clinical trials.

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Philips to Expand its Radiology Informatics Portfolio with the Acquisition of the Healthcare Information Systems Business of Carestream Health

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Healthcare Information Systems business of Carestream Health Inc., a US-based provider of medical imaging and healthcare IT solutions for hospitals, imaging centers and specialty medical clinics.

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Junior PR & Marketing Manager

Consider yourself a PR, marketing and social media all-rounder? Love working on a diverse set of tasks within an international environment? Have outstanding interpersonal skills and a highly hands-on attitude? Want to help to bring a fast-growing health tech company to reach the next level with your creativity, experience, and drive? Then you're exactly who we're looking for in our HQ in Vienna.

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Study Finds Robots can Detect Breast Cancer as well as Radiologists

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and despite important improvements in therapy, it is still a major cause for cancer-related mortality, accounting for approximately 500,000 annual deaths worldwide. Breast cancer screening programs using mammography are effective in reducing breast cancer-related mortality.

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A New Machine Learning Model can Classify Lung Cancer Slides at the Pathologist Level

Machine learning has improved dramatically in recent years and shown great promise in the field of medical image analysis. A team of research specialists at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center have utilized machine learning capabilities to assist with the challenging task of grading tumor patterns and subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide.

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Bringing more Human Intelligence to AI, Data Science and Digital Automation

The advent of data science, wireless connectivity and sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) has raised the prospects for digital automation, smart hospital design and the home health care industry for an aging population. A new horizon scanning analysis described why AI, data science, and digital automation need more of the human element.

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Digital Health Leader

The Digital Health Leader is a subject matter specialist for Digital Health and provides subject matter expertise to the Digital Health initiatives and business processes for the assigned programs within Medical Affairs covering the following areas:

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