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Brainlab Quentry First Online Medical Platform to Receive EuroPriSe European Data Privacy Seal

Brainlab, a global leader in medical technology, today announced that it has received the EuroPriSe European Data Privacy Seal for Quentry® by Brainlab. The seal certifies that Quentry is compliant with data protection directives implemented by all European states.

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Pfizer Taps IBM for Research Collaboration to Transform Parkinson's Disease Care

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions aimed at transforming how clinicians deliver care to patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.

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Open Call SC1-PM-15-2017: Personalised Coaching for Well-Being and Care of People as they Age

Proposals should develop a proof of concept of radically new solutions for a personalised "virtual coach", building upon intelligent ICT environments, access to relevant physiological and behavioural data, new forms of accessible interaction based on tangible user interaction concepts, open platforms and emotional computing.

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High in Calories and Low in Nutrients

A new study from the University of Gothenburg show that adolescents like to present foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients in social media. Previous studies have found that interactions around food in social media can influence adolescents' consumption of candy and their willingness to try unfamiliar foods.

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Nottingham Hospitals Improve Patient Flow through Mobile Therapies Referrals Solution

Software designed by Therapists and ICT leads at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and developed by Nervecentre Software is being used by Therapy staff at City Hospital and QMC Nottingham improving patient flow and reducing delays.

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New Collaboration Links Diabetes eHealth and Medical Call-Center Operator Services in Nordic Region

Diabetes Tools, Swedish medtech developer of the TriabetesClinic app-based decision support service, and MedHelp, northern Europe's largest privately owned healthcare advisory service, jointly announce a cooperation that offers greater access to specialist medical advice for diabetes patients across the Nordic region.

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EMIS Care: A New Name in Eye Screening

EMIS Care - the new name for NHS eye screening service provider Medical Imaging UK - launches, as two major contracts go live. The company, part of EMIS Group since 2014, is the UK's leading provider of outsourced diabetic eye screening and ophthalmology imaging services to NHS Trusts.

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Researcher Engineers a Cutting-Edge Solution for Radiologists and other Medical Staff

Some 2 billion X-rays are performed around the world every year. But the average radiology clinic is understaffed. Radiologists are burdened with a growing workload, allowing little time to comprehensively evaluate images - leading to misdiagnoses and more serious consequences.

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Med-e-Tel 2016 - International Telemedicine and eHealth Forum

6 - 8 April 2016, Luxembourg.
The 14th edition of Med-e-Tel, the International Telemedicine and eHealth Forum, is taking place this week at the Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Center in Luxembourg. Pre-conference workshops on Telecardiology and on Social Media take place on April 5th.

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Microsoft's Xbox Kinect Breathes New Life into Respiratory Assessment

Xbox Kinects could be used in the future to assess the health of patients with conditions such as cystic fibrosis. Researchers at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick and the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) have developed a method of using the devices.

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