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Nurses Becoming e-Nurses by Using Patientrack to Enhance Frontline Care

The ambitions of NHS Digital’s e-nursing week and the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 'Every nurse an e-nurse' campaign are being realised by nurses across the UK, who are seeing the benefits of using digital health on the frontline by using Patientrack, a technology used by nursing staff to capture patient vital signs and alert doctors when urgent attention is needed,

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Philips Supports Global Transformation of Pathology with Two New Fully Digitized Labs in Austria

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has announced the continued momentum of its cutting-edge pathology diagnostics with the successful transformation of two fully digital pathology labs in Austria. The Pathology Institute in Hall and the Pathology Institute at Tirol Kliniken Innsbruck have fully digitized their diagnostic process with Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution,

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Global Head of Digital Trials in gBDS

Are you looking for a new professional challenge in a global acting company, would you like to utilize your expertise with digital devices and your experience in clinical trials?

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Adoption of Robotics into a Hospital's Daily Operations Requires Broad Cooperation

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland studied the implementation of a logistics robot system at the Seinäjoki Central Hospital in South Ostrobothnia. The aim is to reduce transportation costs, improve the availability of supplies and alleviate congestion on hospital hallways by running deliveries around the clock on every day of the week.

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New App Uses Smartphone Selfies to Screen for Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses - with a five-year survival rate of 9 percent - in part because there are no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools to catch a tumor before it spreads. Now, University of Washington researchers have developed an app that could allow people to easily screen for pancreatic cancer and other diseases - by snapping a smartphone selfie.

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Strategic Partnership Enables Physicians to Conduct Clinical Research and Offer New Clinical Therapies to their Patients

Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) has partnered with Elligo Health Research to assist clinicians to conduct clinical trial studies in their own clinics. Through the Allscripts / Elligo partnership, clinical trials managed by Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) will be available, bringing new treatments to patients across major therapeutic areas.

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Philips and HeartFlow Announce Global Collaboration Agreement

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and HeartFlow, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement with the goal of improving access to diagnostic and planning tools for interventional cardiologists evaluating and treating patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Under the agreement, Philips will promote the use of the

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Senior Research Strategy Manager

The University of Edinburgh is looking for an outstanding Senior Research Strategy Manager at the Usher Institute. The Institute comprises of three research centres: the Centre for Population Health Sciences (CPHS), the Centre for Medical Informatics (CMI) and the Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR).

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labfolder Expands to North America and Initiates Collaboration with the German Accelerator Life Sciences

labfolder and the German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS), an initiative supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), have announced the initiation of an extensive collaboration supporting the company's expansion into the North American markets. With thousands of users and a growing number of customers in the U.S. already, the newly established Cambridge office will accelerate those efforts and support customer relations.

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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Dementia Before Onset of Symptoms

Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and care. Thanks to artificial intelligence research conducted at McGill University, this kind of predictive power could soon be available to clinicians everywhere.

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