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Can a Computer Game Train Your Brain to Resist Sweets?

That's the question Drexel University researchers hope to answer with one of two new studies launching this month. They have developed a computer game and smartphone app to help people control unhealthy eating habits and ultimately lose weight. The game is designed to improve a person's "inhibitory control," the part of the brain that stops you from giving into unhealthy cravings - even when the smell of French fries is practically begging you to step inside a fast food restaurant.

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Welch Allyn and Patientrack Collaboration Gives Vital Signs Technology all the Right Connections

A national focus on reducing avoidable patient harm in NHS hospitals is to benefit from a new collaboration between two vital signs monitoring and technology specialists, which should significantly help doctors and nurses in their quest to deliver safer care.

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Smartphone Apps not so Smart at Helping Users Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy

You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100 fertility awareness apps finds that most don't employ evidence-based methodology. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, also found that many apps include a disclaimer discouraging use for avoiding pregnancy.

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Philips Teams Up with Visiopharm to Boost Breast Cancer Diagnosis Objectivity through Computational Pathology

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has signed a licensing agreement with Visiopharm to offer their breast cancer panel software algorithms [1] with Philips IntelliSite [2] digital pathology solution to help pathologists with an objective diagnosis of breast cancer.

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Healthcare Professionals Can Now Communicate and Collaborate Using Medelinked Health Network

Medelinked, the global online and mobile health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, today announced it has enhanced the potential for collaboration between doctors and other healthcare professionals.

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eHealth Projects - Research and Innovation in the field of ICT for Health and Wellbeing

What have the best brains of Europe come up with to improve health and wellbeing with the help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)? This report offers an overview of the most current (on-going or recently finished) European funded projects in the field of ICT for health and wellbeing ('eHealth').

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Draft Code of Conduct on Privacy for Mobile Health Applications

Mobile health applications have a clear potential to bring significant benefits to individual citizens and to society as a whole. Citizens can benefit from continuous and readily accessible support in monitoring, evaluating and improving their health. Society as a whole not only benefits from having a healthier population,

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Electronic Medical Practice Environment can Lead to Physician Burnout

The growth and evolution of the electronic environment in health care is taking a toll on U.S. physicians. That's according to a national study of physicians led by Mayo Clinic which shows the use of electronic health records and computerized physician order entry leads to lower physician satisfaction and higher rates of professional burnout. The findings appear in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

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Open Call SC1-PM-17-2017: Personalised Computer Models and in-Silico Systems for Well-being

Proposals should aim at the development of new integrative dynamic computer-models and simulation systems of acceptable validity, with the potential to being reused, build on open service platforms and with application in well-being, health and disease. The projects have to support computer modelling and simulations able to aggregate various information sets

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Digital Health Europe Summit 2016

30 June 2016, Berlin, Germany.
Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin, its partners and event sponsor Roland Berger invite to the 2016 Health Summit - Innovation Cultures. The digital transformation of businesses, its products and services offers a major opportunity for agile startups to claim new business opportunities and market shares much faster than established corporations.

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