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Wyss Center Neurotech Challenge: Can You Connect the Human Brain with Digital World?

The Wyss Center, a not-for-profit neurotechnology organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, has launched a global neurotech innovation challenge to connect the human brain with the digital world. The Challenge seeks the most disruptive new technologies for brain stimulation and neural signal recording. The goal is to develop technology with a clinical application that could help paralyzed people move, overcome depression or memory loss, restore vision or address other nervous system disorders.

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Agfa HealthCare to Implement Enterprise Imaging for Radiology in First Acibadem International Medical Center in the Netherlands

Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has signed an agreement to implement Enterprise Imaging for Radiology in the new Acibadem International Medical Center, expected to open in Amsterdam shortly. This is the first contract for Agfa HealthCare with a subsidiary of the largest supplier of healthcare services globally, Integrated HealthCare Holdings.

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Listening to Patients and Staff Key to the Future of Health and Care

Opinion Article by John Morley, CEO, Formic.
Many of the most successful organisations in the world aim to deliver high quality services that are built around the needs of the customer, informed by the voice of frontline staff. So why not so for health?

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Philips Enhances Neurological Diagnosis with the Launch of IntelliSpace Portal 9.0

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the introduction of IntelliSpace Portal 9.0, the latest edition of its comprehensive, advanced visual analysis and quantification platform. Featuring a suite of multi-modality functions and expanded neurological tools, IntelliSpace Portal 9.0 helps radiologists detect, diagnose and follow-up on treatment of diseases, while using new machine learning capabilities to support the physician.

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Agfa and CompuGroup Reached an Understanding

As communicated previously, Agfa-Gevaert NV ("Agfa") was approached by CompuGroup Medical SE ("CompuGroup"), who had indicated an interest in a potential acquisition of all of the issued shares of Agfa by way of a voluntary conditional public takeover offer.

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Harris Computer Corporation Acquires iMDsoft

iMDsoft®, a global leader in clinical information systems, today announced that it has been acquired by Harris Computer Corporation, an arm of the Constellation Software group. iMDsoft will be run as an independent business unit within Harris. It will be led by Shahar Sery, a seasoned iMDsoft executive, who has been nominated to the role of Executive Vice President.

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CUBE Challenge: Biggest Ever Cash Prize For a Startup Competition

CUBE, the global digital transformation ecosystem, has announced the biggest ever cash prize for a startup competition. CUBE is a global tech ecosystem that aims to promote, create and foster partnerships between industry players and startups worldwide. Born out of existing industry needs, CUBE focuses on cross industries ranging from life sciences to manufacturing, supported by key industry players like Bayer and Volkswagen.

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Aridhia Broadens European Appeal with New RSRCH-Health Service in Netherlands

Scottish clinical and translational informatics company Aridhia, Netherlands-based ICT service provider Vancis, and clinical datasets experts MGRID are today announcing the expansion of their existing partnership with the launch of a new research platform service, RSRCH-Health, into the Netherlands.

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Health at a Glance: Europe 2016

This publication is the result of a close co-operation between the OECD and the European Commission and is the first step in the Commission's "State of Health in the EU" initiative to strengthen country-specific and EU-wide knowledge on health issues. The content, including the selection of key indicators of health and health systems, was agreed upon by the OECD and the Commission, based mainly on the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI), the Joint Assessment Framework on Health, and using the 2014 Commission Communication on effective, accessible and resilient health systems as reference framework.

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Digital Microbes for Munching Yourself Healthy

Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only tremendously important to our health - they are also tremendously complex. A research team at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg has taken an important step in modelling the complexity of the human gut's bacterial communities - the microbiome - on the computer.

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