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Merck Opens Application Phase for Next Accelerator

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that it has opened the next round of applications for startup companies to participate in the global Merck Accelerator program. Startups can choose to participate in one of the two programs, either at the company's Innovation Center at global headquarters in Darmstadt or at its China Innovation Hub in Shanghai.

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Sectra to Provide Large Centralized Regional Solution for Digital Pathology in the UK

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a five-year contract with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust for the delivery of a regional digital pathology solution to the Northern Cancer Alliance. The solution will span the ten separate trusts of the consortium and aims to improve cancer care workflows through enabling pathologists to instantly access and share images and information between departments and locations.

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x-tention Becomes the New Majority Shareholder of ICW AG

xt invest AG becomes the new majority shareholder of InterComponentWare AG (ICW). This investment and the resulting close cooperation of the firms x-tention, soffico, and ICW will create the strongest eHealth provider in the Germany/Austria/Switzerland markets. The companies already have numerous clients in common, with proven success e.g. by recently winning contracts for AOK's Digital Health Network.

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XPOMET® Medicinale Welcomes Applications to its #HEALTHHACKATHON19

10 - 12 October 2019, Berlin, Germany.
Ideas, concepts, collaboration - XPOMET Medicinale, the Future Health and Care Festival, is welcoming innovators to its event in October. Beyond the manifold offerings from showcases to performances, XPOMET Medicinale comes with a format dedicated to IT specialists, engineers, physicians and medical students, researchers, as well as indeed anybody motivated to create new solutions are invited to participate.

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Application Period for an International Master in Digital Health at THD-ECRI Open until mid-July

The Master of Science (M.Sc.)in Medical Informatics (MMI) at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) in Pfarrkirchen - a branch of the Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences (THD - Technische Hochschule Deggendorf) in Bavaria, Germany - is accepting applications for entry in October 2019.

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Artificial Intelligence Detects a New Class of Mutations Behind Autism

Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered "junk." Even though scientists have recently come to understand that these vast stretches of DNA do in fact play critical roles, deciphering these effects on a wide scale has been impossible until now.

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Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research or JMIR mHealth and uHealth

JMIR Publications invites nominations and applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) and JMIR mHealth and uHealth (JMU). Both journals are recognized as the leading digital health journals by quality (leading impact factors) and quantity (number of articles published).

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IMI to Boost Patient Involvement in its Activities

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is creating a 'pool' of patient experts to strengthen the role and voice of patients in IMI activities at both strategic and operational levels. IMI has always involved patients in its work; now the plan is to take patient engagement at IMI to the next level.

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Mobile Phone App Designed to Boost Physical Activity in Women Shows Promise in Trial

Activity trackers and mobile phone apps are all the rage, but do they really help users increase and maintain physical activity? A new study has found that one mobile phone app designed for inactive women did help when combined with an activity tracker and personal counseling.

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Efficacy and SilverCloud Health Supports GPs in Challenging Times with Online Therapy Service

A leading mental health service is using the digital mental health platform developed by SilverCloud Health to support a confidential NHS service for GPs in England. London-based Efficacy is offering doctors using the GP Health Service access to the SilverCloud platform, on which there are more than 30 programmes, to improve mental health and related conditions.

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