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Business Development Coordinator, Europe

Your mission is to assist healthcare vendors to leverage the integrated event and media offerings of HIMSS Europe to connect vendors with their target audience. This position requires solutions-based direct selling to named accounts with the goal of driving media, content marketing and sponsorship revenue in the following categories: events, marketing & content services, digital magazines.

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Self-Powered Paper-Based 'SPEDs' may Lead to New Medical-Diagnostic Tools

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the user's touch - and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand. The self-powered, paper-based electrochemical devices, or SPEDs, are designed for sensitive diagnostics at the "point-of-care," or when care is delivered to patients, in regions where the public has limited access to resources or sophisticated medical equipment.

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Counsel - Digital Innovation Europe

The successful candidate will be responsible for advising and supporting the EU Innovation team, including Amgen's Technology Hubs, on a wide variety of issues concerning the development and implementation of novel digital applications and connected solutions relating to Amgen’s biopharmaceutical and medical device products.

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Researchers Uncover Security Issues with Health Apps for Dementia Patients

Use caution when entering personal health information into a convenient app on your mobile device, because not all apps are created equal when it comes to protecting your privacy, warns McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School clinicians. In a recent paper, a team of McLean Hospital researchers reported that many health apps designed to assist dementia patients and their caregivers have inadequate security policies or lack security policies altogether.

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Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care

Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients while making real-time treatment decisions, especially when data is documented inconsistently across hospitals. In a new pair of papers, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) explore ways for computers to help doctors make better medical decisions.

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Smartphone App may Help Older Adults Manage Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Health Conditions

The use of new technologies in geriatric psychiatry shows promise for advancing personalized medicine and improving patient care. A new study in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry describes the successful adaptation of an integrated medical and psychiatric self-management intervention to a smartphone application for middle-aged and older adults with serious mental illness.

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Director Solutions Management

The primary purpose of this role of Director of Solutions Management is to manage discrete 'units' and project teams to achieve the following:

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Lyfebulb-Novo Nordisk Innovation Award 2017

The Lyfebulb-Novo Nordisk Innovation Summit 2017 will recognize and empower international Patient Entrepreneurs with big ideas that disrupt the future of diabetes management. Patient Entrepreneurs have a unique ability to create value-adding disease management solutions beyond therapy. The aim is to support patient-driven innovation and laser-focus on improving the quality of life for those living with diabetes.

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Joined-Up Health & Care 2017: Releasing Patient Information from the 'X-Files' for Regional Care

Parallels are not often drawn between the life-saving efforts of the NHS and the supernatural investigations of the fictional FBI agents Mulder and Scully. But with speakers ranging from renowned characters like Dr Ben Goldacre, through to think tanks and those at the forefront of connecting the UK's health and care services, Joined-up Health & Care 2017 provided insights and truths worthy of exposure.

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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Selects Allscripts to Enhance Care and Clinical Engagement

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected Allscripts Sunrise EHR as it continues to focus on improving the quality of care delivered to patients. An integrated care organization, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust serves patients from communities at Royal Bolton Hospital and at more than 20 health centers and clinics.

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