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Tablet Helps Heart Failure Patients Manage their Disease Including Drug Dosages

A novel tablet is helping heart failure patients to manage their disease including drug dosages, according to research presented at EuroHeartCare 2017.(1) Heart failure is a serious condition in which the heart does not pump blood around the body as well as it should. Not enough blood gets to the body, causing fatigue. Blood backs up waiting to enter the heart, leading to fluid accumulation in the legs and abdomen and fluid in the lungs (congestion).

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Information Integration and Artificial Intelligence for Better Diagnosis and Therapy Decisions

With their joint research alliance, Siemens Healthineers and the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS will support physicians in finding the right course of therapy for their patients. Both partners are jointly developing artificial intelligence software systems to facilitate diagnosis and therapy decisions with the help of advanced data integration, comprehensive databases, and automatic recognition of patterns and regularities in data (deep machine learning).

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Technology for Health

InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading supplier of software for the healthcare IT market. ICW develops solutions for IT-based collaboration among healthcare professionals and their patients. ICW is your trusted partner for solutions that involve patients in their treatment plans and that securely exchange data across enterprises. ICW's clients operate successfully in many international markets and benefit from its expertise in implementing innovative trends and addressing current and future challenges in healthcare.

The internationally experienced team of around 60 employees successfully develops eHealth solutions for secure cross-enterprise information exchange in healthcare. Based on almost 20 years of experience, ICW eHealth Suite - powerful, connected Modules that form tailor-made solutions for the valued customers and partners - has been created.

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Philips-Sponsored Clinical Study Demonstrates Significant Breakthrough for COPD Treatment

Recently published advancements in pulmonary research suggest that the combination of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and home oxygen therapy (HOT) can significantly prolong time to readmission or death for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) following a life-threatening respiratory event or exacerbation.

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Joined-Up Health & Care Conference 2017

20 June 2017, Sutton Coldfield, UK.
Health and care leaders at the forefront of using technology and data to inform better quality and more coordinated care are to come together at the latest Joined-Up Health & Care event, hosted by InterSystems at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield. Delegates to this event, which is free to attend, will hear from UK's digital health and care pioneers, such as Healthy Liverpool, a programme that is

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An NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics?

Opinion Article by: Jane Rendall, UK Managing Director, Sectra; Fredrik Gustavsson, Chief Technology Officer.
Pressure to improve sustainability and reduce isolation in healthcare has renewed the hunger for a different approach to IT. Installing software in individual organisations, and then managing it locally on hospital servers, is a resource hungry method that for many organisations is starting to reach its limits in the race to digital maturity.

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eHealth Hub: AXA's Calls for Digital Health Solution Partners

AXA is partnering with eHealth Hub and its Solution Match service to source nutrition and smoking cessation solution partners. AXA is today the number one global insurance brand, a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management operating in more than 60 countries, with 165,000 employees and agents serving 107 million clients.

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Predicting Influenza Outbreaks Faster with a Digitally-Empowered Wearable Device

Through integration with a wearable thermometer, the Thermia online health educational tool developed at Boston Children's Hospital has enabled prediction of seasonal influenza outbreaks in China one month earlier than before, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Although the Boston Children's team has previously demonstrated that social media can be used to track disease, this is the first time that they've shown that outbreaks can be predicted through an integrated wearable device and online tool.

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Future Health Index Commissioned by Philips Reveals Significant Gap Between Perception and Reality of How Global Health Systems are Performing

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has released the second annual Future Health Index. The study identifies a significant gap between healthcare professionals' and the general population's perceptions, and the reality of the readiness of health systems for the future.

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IBM Watson Health and MAP Health Management Partner to Curb Incidence of Substance Abuse Relapse in the United States

MAP Health Management and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health have announced a partnership that aims to address the pervasive problem of relapse among Americans suffering from Substance Use Disorder, a chronic disease. MAP will integrate Watson cognitive technologies into the MAP Recovery Network Platform to enhance the platform's existing capabilities around patient risk models.

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