Use of Wearable Device Does Not Improve Weight Loss
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Improving Patient Outcomes through Digital Innovation at the Heart of ehi LIVE 2016
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1 - 2 November 2016, Birmingham, UK.Dr Harpreet Sood, Senior Fellow, Chairman and Chief Executive's Office, NHS England, will speak about health tech and innovation in the ehi LIVE Keynotes conference. A core message will be how digital and technological progress can and will bring about change to help the most important element of the healthcare system - the patients. Improving patient outcomes is at the heart of the 10 free-to-attend conferences which run alongside the exhibition at the UK's largest digital health event, taking place at NEC Birmingham from 1-2 November 2016.
MRI Scanner Sees Emotions Flickering Across an Idle Mind
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COCIR eHealth Summit 2016
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This year's COCIR eHealth Summit is under the umbrella of the European Commission's European Summit on Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing (5-8 Dec 2016, Brussels). The event builds on the outcomes of previous COCIR eHealth Summits looking at Big Data and the role of eHealth in delivering Integrated Care.
Popular Reality Game Pokémon GO is Distracting
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Philips Introduces Next Generation Interventional Oncology Solution OncoSuite for Advanced Tumor Analysis and Therapy in Europe
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Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has unveiled its latest innovation in interventional oncology at the 2016 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe annual meeting (CIRSE 2016), which was held in Barcelona (Spain) from September 10 until 14. Philips' next generation interventional oncology solution OncoSuite will enable physicians to provide analysis and minimally invasive, targeted treatment of tumor lesions reducing the impact to healthy tissue.
Pfizer Launches New "Moodivator" App to Help Support, Encourage and Motivate People with Depression
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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has launched a new app, Moodivator, to help motivate and encourage the millions of adults who experience depression. Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States, as an estimated one in 15 adults (6.7%) experience at least one major depressive episode in any given year.
Open Call SMEInst-06-2016-2017: Accelerating Market Introduction of ICT Solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing Well
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The challenge is to help overcome the current gaps in exploitation of promising research results in ICT for Health, Well-being and Ageing well and to stimulate increased availability and market uptake of relevant ICT products and services This concerns both interoperable and secure eHealth solutions for consumers and institutional healthcare delivery building on standards and new ICT solutions and innovation ecosystems for ageing well building on open software platforms, in order to deliver new and more efficient care to European citizens and respond to new market opportunities for SMEs.
WoHIT 2016 Special Offer for Entrepreneurs
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At the World of Health IT, smaller health-related companies have the chance to meet and connect with some of the most influential decision-makers in the industry. It is for this reason that a number of tailored activities and packages were elaborated for start-ups and micro-SME companies which will give no reason to miss out on WoHIT 2016.
Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences Announce Launch of Onduo, a Joint Venture to Develop Comprehensive Diabetes Management Platform
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Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences LLC, (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company, have announced the launch of Onduo, a joint venture created through Sanofi and Verily's diabetes-focused collaboration. The joint venture is based in Kendall Square in Cambridge. Onduo's mission is to help people with diabetes live full, healthy lives by developing comprehensive solutions that combine devices, software, medicine, and professional care to enable simple and intelligent disease management.