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Qualcomm Expands Collaboration with Novartis for Connected COPD Therapy

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Novartis are expanding their global connected therapy management collaboration. Novartis will leverage Qualcomm Life's connectivity solutions to power its next-generation connected Breezhaler™, the inhaler for its Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) portfolio.

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Top 20 eHealth News Articles - Look Back at 2015

eHealthNews.eu invites its readers to look back at the top 20 eHealth news articles that are worth revisiting. Look back at the most prominent moments from the past year. According to the collected web statistics the most commonly viewed news, the Top 20 news articles of the Year 2015 are:

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eHealth 360° Summit Announced by European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

14 - 16 June 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
eHealth 360° Summit, recently announced by European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), is a unique event bringing a 360 degree perspective on mobile and electronic health. The Summit will gather experiences and innovative ideas from related projects and activities in this topic with the aim to coach involved people on the whole path between research to innovation and all the way through to commercialization of ideas, projects and technologies.

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Eminent Enterprise Technology Leader Joins Orion Health as Executive Vice President for EMEA

Experienced enterprise technology leader Jonathan Selby is to join Orion Health as Executive Vice President for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region following incumbent Wayne Oxenham's promotion to President of the firm's US business.

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Ebola, Big Data, Childhood Cancers and Medicines Safety Feature in New IMI Call

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched two Calls for proposals that will advance medicines development in critical areas such as Ebola, childhood cancers, neurological disorders, and eye disease. The Calls will also add to IMI's growing programme on Big Data for Better Outcomes.

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Hebrew University Scientists Use Computational Neuroscience to Unravel Brain's Mysteries

In new research published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, in the Faculty of Medicine, unraveled a longstanding mystery of a fundamental property of the brain.

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Open Call SC1-PM-04-2016: Networking and Optimising the Use of Population and Patient Cohorts at EU Level

Proposals should aim at maximizing the exploitation of cohorts by bringing together national and/or European cohorts with common scientific interests (e.g. across diseases, children, mothers, elderly, birth, gender, etc.), and by taking advantage of new technologies (e.g. ICT, social platforms, etc.) and new type of data (e.g. geographical, genetic, eHealth records, etc.).

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XENiOS® Will Seek Regulatory Approval for i-lung®

XENiOS®, a commercial-stage medical device company, announced today it expects to receive CE-marking for its i-lung® device within 18 months. XENIOS expects to launch i-lung® in 2017. Currently available devices lack durability and wearability. Additionally, the size of current systems restricts patient mobility and limits quality of life.

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eHealth Ireland Announces Consultation Process for EHR Priorities

The Chief Information Officer of the HSE Richard Corbridge has launched a public consultation process on a range of matters regarding a new national Electronic Health Record (EHR). A national EHR is a comprehensive and combined solution that supports the creation, management and sharing of key patient information.

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Women Can Now Track Their Fertility with Apple Watch

Knowing when to get pregnant may be one of the most important pieces of personal health information. Yet, a recent study conducted on 3,000 men and women across the US, UK and Sweden, reveals that less than 30% are aware of how the female body works.(1) Natural Cycles, the clinically-tested fertility app, aims to change that and announced the launch of their Apple Watch app.

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