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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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RELIEF Project: One of the 50 Best Digital Ideas

The RELIEF project, led by BravoSolution Spain, whose objective is to search for new technologies that improve the self-management of chronic pain patients, has been awarded as one of the 50 Best Digital Ideas in 2016, bestowed by leading Spanish financial daily Expansión, in the Digital Institutions category. RELIEF is a Pre-Commercial procurement project co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme.

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It's All in the Eyes: Women and Men Really do See Things Differently

Women and men look at faces and absorb visual information in different ways, which suggests there is a gender difference in understanding visual cues, according to a team of scientists that included psychologists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The researchers used an eye tracking device on almost 500 participants at the Science Museum over a five-week period to monitor and judge how much eye contact they felt comfortable with while looking at a face on a computer screen.

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Philips Announces Commercial Availability of its Interoperable and Scalable IntelliSpace Universal Data Manager for Healthcare Enterprises

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced the commercial availability of its high-performance IntelliSpace Universal Data Manager, a scalable, secure, interoperable data management solution that supports healthcare enterprises in organizing large data sets, including millions of images and other data from multiple sources, and quickly delivering them to virtually any clinician throughout their health network.

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Major Health IT Event Opens with Recognition of Most Digitally Mature Hospitals

21 - 22 November 2016, Barcelona, Spain.
The World of Health IT (WoHIT) has opened its doors to over 1,000 healthcare IT professionals from across 25 different countries worldwide. Covering a range of the hottest topics in the industry, from mHealth and cybersecurity to genomics and integrated care, WoHIT has gathered the whole of the European and global eHealth community together.

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Philips Announces 1000th Installation of its Ambient Experience Solution to Create a Patient-Friendly Hospital Environment

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced a milestone for its Ambient Experience solution with the 1000th installation at the St. Claraspital hospital in Basel, Switzerland. With Ambient Experience, the Swiss hospital created a calming and reassuring patient-controlled ambient environment for patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) imaging procedures.

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OBH's Outcomes Platform Selected to Join NHS Innovation Accelerator by NHS England

A technology developed in the UK has been selected for a national NHS acceleration programme to help measure if care is making a meaningful difference to people and to empower the NHS to prevent diseases, reduce severe illness and improve quality of life.

NHS England Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh and US digital health expert Professor Robert Wachter revealed in November eight health innovations to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator for 2016.

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