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Specific Grant Agreement One Signed by the European Commission and the Human Brain Project

The European Commission and the Human Brain Project (HBP) Coordinator, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have signed the first Specific Grant Agreement (SGA1), releasing EUR 89 million in funding retroactively from 1st April 2016 until the end of March 2018. The signature of SGA1 means that the HBP and the European Commision have agreed on the HBP Work Plan for these two years.

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Accenture Launches HealthTech Innovation Challenge to Foster Technology Innovation In the Healthcare Industry

Accenture has announced the creation of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge which brings together leading-edge startups with prominent life sciences and health companies to tackle some of the world's greatest health challenges including access, affordability and transparency.

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A Mobile Device Developed by VTT Detects Irregular Heartbeats and Helps to Prevent Cerebral Infarctions

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a mobile app and thumb-size device that help to prevent cerebral infarctions at an early stage, during asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. The mobile device, which detects arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) has been tested with excellent results for around two years in real-life conditions in cooperation with Turku University Central Hospital.

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Philips and Qualcomm Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Personalized Connected Health Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., have announced a strategic technology collaboration to advance connected health across the health continuum - from healthy living and prevention to chronic care management and home care.

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FDA Launches #NaloxoneApp Competition to Spur Innovative Technologies to Help Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the 2016 Naloxone App Competition, a public contest focused on developing innovative technologies to combat the rising epidemic of opioid overdose. The FDA, with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is inviting computer programmers, public health advocates, clinical researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators from all disciplines to

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CHIC Project Survey: Your Opinion Counts

The EU-funded CHIC project (Computational Horizons In Cancer: Developing Meta- and Hyper-Multiscale Models and Repositories for In Silico Oncology) proposes the development of clinical trial driven tools, services and secure infrastructure that will support the creation of multiscale cancer hypermodels (integrative models). The latter are defined as choreographies of component models, each one describing a biological process at a characteristic spatiotemporal scale, and of relation models/metamodels defining the relations across scales.

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Use of Wearable Device Does Not Improve Weight Loss

Among overweight or obese young adults, the addition of a wearable technology device (that provided feedback on physical activity) to a standard behavioral intervention resulted in less weight loss over 24 months, according to a study appearing in the September 20 issue of JAMA. Effective long-term treatments are needed to address the obesity epidemic. There is wide availability of commercial technologies for physical activity and diet.

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Improving Patient Outcomes through Digital Innovation at the Heart of ehi LIVE 2016

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.

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MRI Scanner Sees Emotions Flickering Across an Idle Mind

As you relax and let your mind drift aimlessly, you might remember a pleasant vacation, an angry confrontation in traffic or maybe the loss of a loved one. And now a team of researchers at Duke University say they can see those various emotional states flickering across the human brain.

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COCIR eHealth Summit 2016

8 December 2016, Brussels, Belgium.
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.

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