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Consumer Intelligence Series: The Wearable Future

There is indeed a wearable future ahead, one that can dramatically alter the landscape of society and business as we know it. For months, we surveyed consumers and spoke with experts to explore the potential benefits as well as drawbacks, understanding why they matter, and how they will deeply shape us as individuals and as a society. Here is a look at some of the strengths and opportunities for wearable tech - and the weaknesses and challenges that enterprising businesses must successfully navigate.

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Acoustic Imaging with Outline Detection

Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaecologists use ultrasound images to study foetuses in the womb. Material testing procedures that regularly check for fissures in rail tracks or aircraft support structures are also based on ultrasound.

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Digital 'Rosetta Stone' Decrypts How Mutations Rewire Cancer Cells

Scientists have discovered how genetic cancer mutations systematically attack the networks controlling human cells, knowledge critical for the future development of personalized precision cancer treatments. Since the human genome was decoded more than a decade ago, cancer genomics studies have dominated life science worldwide and have been extremely successful at identifying mutations in individual patients and tumors.

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How mHealth Can Benefit Mental Health

Opinion Article by Jamie Prangnell, Managing Director, Appadoodle.
Mental ill health is a huge issue for young people. It is estimated that one in five young people have a mental health problem in any given year. Further research says that around half of all mental disorders begin before the age of 15, and 75% by 24. More than half of all adults with mental health problems saw such issues manifest in childhood, but were not formally diagnosed.

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The Burning Technological Platform for Person-Centred Care

Opinion Article by Tom Morton, CEO, Communicare 247.
Integrated, person-centred care is seen as a driving force for building public services around individual needs. It aims to bring care out of the hospital and into the community and home to cope with the growing burden of the 3 million people who will have over three long-term conditions by 2018.

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Delivering the 'Two Minute Advantage' - Medelinked Snapshot Now Available in the Medelinked Health Partner Portal

Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, has launched Medelinked Snapshot enabling doctor and patient to use the Medelinked Partner Health Portal to be partners in health management and giving GPs as much as two minutes extra time per consultation.

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Scottish Health Board Leaps Ahead in Integrating Children's Services

NHS Dumfries and Galloway has taken a major step in integrating children’s services across health, social care and other public services. This is as a result of a pioneering project that is moving far beyond anything done before within NHS Scotland to link crucial information on patients from across disparate IT systems used by different organisations.

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Philips and Catharina Hospital Sign Technology Agreement for New and Largest Cardiovascular Center in the Netherlands

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Catharina Hospital (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have signed an agreement for the installation of Philips' advanced medical technologies in Catharina Hospital's new cardiovascular center, which is currently under construction and due to open its doors in mid-2016. The agreement will give Catharina Hospital access to the latest technologies for the image-guided minimally invasive treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.

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Visbion Awarded Government Grant from Innovate UK SMART Initiative for Synthetic Biology Project

Visbion has been chosen as the recipient of a government grant via the Innovate UK SMART initiative for a new project entering into the field of synthetic biology. The aim of the project, entitled 'A Comprehensive Web-based Broker for Biotechnology Design and Manufacturing' is to create a method by which synthetic biology designers can efficiently search for tools and component parts for their designs.

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Carestream introduces new Healthcare IT and Diagnostic Imaging Systems at Röntgenveckan in Malmö, Sweden

Carestream Health demonstrated several new diagnostic imaging products and advanced IT healthcare systems at the Röntgenveckan exhibition held recently in Malmö, Sweden. For the first time in Sweden the company introduced the new CARESTREAM Touch Prime Ultrasound System (not yet available for commercial sale.)

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