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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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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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