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MEDICA and COMPAMED 2024: Shining a Light on Healthcare Trends with Ample Array of Innovations, Exciting Formats and VIP Guests

11 - 14 November 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Christian Grosser, Director Health & Medical Technologies, is looking forward to events getting under way: "From next Monday to Thursday, we will once again be welcoming visiting professionals from all fields of the international healthcare industry to MEDICA and COMPAMED 2024. The trade fairs will offer an enormous variety of innovations and exciting programme formats with a host of highlights, innovations and top-class speakers." From 11 to 14 November, 5,800 exhibitors from 72 countries will fill the entire hall space on the trade fair grounds.

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Siemens Healthineers co-leads EU Project to Improve Stroke Care

Siemens Healthineers is joining forces with more than 20 industry and public partners, including seven leading stroke hospitals, to improve stroke management for patients all over Europe. With a total volume of €26.9 million, the five-year UMBRELLA(1) project is partly funded by the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), a public-private partnership for health research and innovation between the European Union and Europe's life science industries, and partly by the industry partners participating in the consortium.

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A "Chemical ChatGPT" for New Medications

Researchers from the University of Bonn have trained an AI process to predict potential active ingredients with special properties. Therefore, they derived a chemical language model - a kind of ChatGPT for molecules. Following a training phase, the AI was able to exactly reproduce the chemical structures of compounds with known dual-target activity that may be particularly effective medications. The study has now been published in Cell Reports Physical Science.

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AI for Real-Rime, Patient-Focused Insight

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but still... they both have a lot of work to do to catch up to BiomedGPT.

Covered recently in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, BiomedGPT is a new a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to support a wide range of medical and scientific tasks.

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MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM: Success in Mastering Healthcare Challenges through Digital Innovations

11 - 14 November 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany.
How can innovations help to master the great challenges and demands with which healthcare is confronted across international borders? This central question will be given solid answers again at the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM, an established part of the programme at MEDICA in Düsseldorf, the world’s leading trade fair for the health sector and medical technology industry, this year again on all four days of the trade fair.

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Hampshire Emergency Departments Digitise with Alcidion

Emergency departments in three hospitals across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have deployed Alcidion's Miya Emergency, digitising paper processes, saving clinical teams time, automating tasks, and providing trust-wide visibility of patient status and A&E activity.

Clinical professionals and end users were deeply involved in this complex undertaking, from the moment a decision was made to deliver a new emergency department electronic patient record.

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G-Cloud 14 Makes it Easier for NHS to Buy WiFi, Patient Entertainment, and More with Airwave Healthcare

NHS organisations will be able to save valuable time and resource in the procurement of technologies that can make a significant difference to patient experience, in the latest iteration of the government’s G-Cloud procurement framework.

Airwave Healthcare, which works with hospitals to deliver affordable and innovative technologies to help to entertain, educate and inform patients, is for the first time making its services available through the G-Cloud framework.

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New Research Shows Promise and Limitations of Physicians Working with GPT-4 for Decision Making

Published in JAMA Network Open, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Stanford University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Virginia studied how well doctors used GPT-4 - an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model system - for diagnosing patients.

The study was conducted with 50 U.S.-licensed physicians in family medicine, internal medicine and emergency medicine.

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Start-Ups will Once Again Have a Starring Role at MEDICA 2024

11 - 14 November 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The finalists in the 16th Healthcare Innovation World Cup and the 13th MEDICA START-UP COMPETITION have advanced from around 550 candidates based in 62 countries from Armenia to China and America to Rwanda. From 3 p.m. on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 November, they will be exhibiting their innovative solutions on the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM stage as part of MEDICA 2024. The leading international trade fair for the healthcare and medical equipment industries will be held in Düsseldorf from 11 to 14 November 2024.

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New AI Tool Predicts Protein-Protein Interaction Mutations in Hundreds of Diseases

Scientists from Cleveland Clinic and Cornell University have designed a publicly-available software and web database to break down barriers to identifying key protein-protein interactions to treat with medication.

The computational tool is called PIONEER (Protein-protein InteractiOn iNtErfacE pRediction). Researchers demonstrated PIONEER's utility by identifying potential drug targets for dozens of cancers and other complex diseases in a recently published Nature Biotechnology article.

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