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eHealth Innovation Days 2017

7 - 8 September 2017, Flensburg, Germany.
The 2nd eHealth Innovation Days will gather the different professionals and stakeholders concerned with eHealth: developers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers, citizens as well as companies and entrepreneurs are welcome. The floor is open to generate innovative ideas, discuss the current developments in eHealth and initiate new projects and partnerships.

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Where Cutting-Edge Technologies and Industry Converge: Announcing Ireland’s Premier Medical Technology Event, Medtec Ireland 2017

4 - 5 October 2017, Galway, Ireland.
Medtec Ireland 2017, Ireland's largest pure medical design and manufacturing event, will be taking place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway, Ireland. Following last year's successful event, which saw substantial growth of 19 percent in visitor numbers, Medtec Ireland 2017 is the industry's most trusted route to producing real impact for exhibitors and visitors,

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Managing Director/Medical Director (m/f) for New Digital Health Company

The HitFox team is transforming selected high-growth markets by establishing synergistic company clusters. More than 880 professionals all over the world are shaping emerging digital industries in the group's international offices on three continents. HitFox Group is currently looking for a Managing Director/Medical Director (m/f) to join the new digital health company.

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The Danish Reference Genome

After close to 5 years of work, the GenomeDenmark consortium has now finalized the efforts to establish a Danish Reference genome. The result is a reference of unrivalled quality and information depth, as compared to other similar international references and studies. Due to the unique and high quality approach, the consortium consisting of three Danish universities and the genomics company BGI Europe has been able to analyze otherwise intractable genomics regions for the first time.

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NHS Fife Connects Hospitals Following Successful TrakCare Go-Live

Ten hospitals across Fife are using real-time information to deliver better co-ordinated care for thousands of patients, following the successful go-live of InterSystems TrakCare®. Frontline staff in all of NHS Fife's acute and community hospitals are now using the patient information system, which has been positively received by healthcare professionals as a means to support better and safer care,

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Philips and Italian Fatebenefratelli Hospital Sign Multiyear Strategic Partnership to Enable Family-Centered Care for Mother and Child

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and the historic San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome today announced a long-term strategic partnership to introduce state-of-the-art Family Centered Care (FCC) at the hospital. This 6-year collaboration will enable the San Giovanni Calibita to deliver developmentally focused, family centered mother-and-child care of the highest clinical quality.

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Designing Soft Robots: Ethics-Based Guidelines for Human-Robot Interactions

Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and novel tactile human-robot interactions that require careful consideration of the potential for misplaced emotional attachments and personally and socially destructive behavior by users. The ethical challenges related to human-robot interactions and how these should contribute to soft robotics design in the context of social interaction are discussed in a compelling new article in Soft Robotics, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

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IMI Launches EUR 130 Million Calls for Proposals with Focus on Alzheimer's Disease, Big Data, Vaccines, and More

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is launching two new Calls for proposals with topics on Alzheimer's disease, big data, vaccines, autoimmune disease, the blood-brain barrier, drug development, and the exploitation of IMI project results. The total budget for the two Calls stands at just over EUR 130 million.

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Health & Public Service Advisory Manager

Accenture is currently working on a number of large Health & Public Service programmes across a variety of clients and is seeking to grow our H&PS team in the UK with bright, experienced, technology-savvy individuals.

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Google Searches can be Used to Track Dengue in Underdeveloped Countries

An analytical tool that combines Google search data with government-provided clinical data can quickly and accurately track dengue fever in less-developed countries, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology by Shihao Yang of Harvard University and colleagues. The research builds on a methodology previously developed by the team to track influenza in the United States.

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