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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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Investing in Drug Safety Monitoring could Avoid Complications - and Save Medical Costs

Increased investment in "pharmacovigilance surveillance" - systems to proactively monitor safety problems with new medications - has the potential to avoid harmful drug effects while lowering healthcare costs, according to a study in the June issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.

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Dr Saif Abed Talks about the WannaCry Attack

The WannaCry or WannaDecryptor virus was a world-wide phenomenon, but the NHS was badly hit. Dr Saif Abed, a founding partner of the health IT consultancy AbedGraham, says a forensic inquiry should be held into what went wrong; so the NHS can deal with the clinical and patient risk issues it exposed.

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The NCSC's Latest Statement Regarding the International Cyber Incident

The latest statement from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the UK's authority on cyber security:
Since the global coordinated ransomware attack on thousands of private and public sector organisations across dozens of countries on Friday, there have been no sustained new attacks of that kind. But it is important to understand that the way these attacks work means that compromises of machines and networks that have already occurred may not yet have been detected, and that existing infections from the malware can spread within networks.

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Targeted, High-Energy Cancer Treatments Get a Supercomputing Boost

Radiation therapy shoots high-energy particles into the body to destroy or damage cancer cells. Over the last century, the technologies used have constantly improved and it has become a highly effective way to treat cancer. However, physicians must still walk a fine line between delivering enough radiation to kill tumors, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue.

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Compiling Big Data in a Human-Centric Way

When a group of researchers in the Undiagnosed Disease Network at Baylor College of Medicine realized they were spending days combing through databases searching for information regarding gene variants, they decided to do something about it. By creating MARRVEL (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration) they are now able to help not only their own lab but also researchers everywhere search databases all at once and in a matter of minutes.

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SERMO Unveils First Global Physician-to-Physician Drug Ratings Tool

SERMO, the largest global social network for physicians with 650,000 members worldwide, has announced the groundbreaking new "Drug Ratings" tool. Drug Ratings is the first and only global peer-to-peer prescription drug review system sourced exclusively from verified licensed physicians. With more than a quarter million ratings and 20,000 comments from doctors worldwide to date in the beta release, the Ratings platform is quickly becoming the largest global database of physician feedback on drugs.

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