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Philips and Medtronic Advocacy Partnership Aims to Help Accelerate Access to Life-Saving Treatments

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Medtronic Neurovascular, a leading innovator in neurovascular therapies, today announced a strategic advocacy partnership. Delivering timely stroke care is crucial to saving lives and reducing long-term disability. As leaders in stroke diagnosis and treatment, the two organizations are advocating on raising awareness around the potential health and economic benefits for patients, their families and societies of improving access to timely stroke diagnosis and treatment.

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Wearable Cameras Allow AI to Detect Medication Errors

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), detects potential errors in medication delivery.

In a test whose results were published today, the video system recognized and identified, with high proficiency, which medications were being drawn in busy clinical settings.

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Commission Joins Forces with Venture Capital to Support Deep Tech Innovation in Europe

The Commission has launched a Trusted Investors Network bringing together a group of investors ready to co-invest in innovative deep-tech companies in Europe together with the EU. The Union's investment comes from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is part of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.

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AI could Transform How Hospitals Produce Quality Reports

A pilot study led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially lead to easier, faster and more efficient hospital quality reporting while retaining high accuracy, which could lead to enhanced health care delivery.

The study results, published in the October 21, 2024 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) AI,

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AI does Not Necessarily Lead to more Efficiency in Clinical Practice

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospitals and patient care is steadily increasing. Especially in specialist areas with a high proportion of imaging, such as radiology, AI has long been part of everyday clinical practice. However, the question of the extent to which AI actually influences workflows in a clinical setting remains largely unanswered. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have therefore conducted a comprehensive analysis of existing studies on the effect of AI.

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An AI-Powered Pipeline for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Ludwig Cancer Research scientists have developed a full, start-to-finish computational pipeline that integrates multiple molecular and genetic analyses of tumors and the specific molecular targets of T cells and harnesses artificial intelligence algorithms to use its output to design personalized cancer vaccines for patients.

The design, validation and comparative assessment of this computational suite, NeoDisc, are detailed in the current issue of Nature Biotechnology in a publication led by Florian Huber and Michal Bassani-Sternberg of the Lausanne Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

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MEDICA 2024 + COMPAMED 2024: Adapted Hall Layout for Even Better Integration of Trade Fair and Accompanying Programme

11 - 14 November 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The final preparations for MEDICA 2024 and COMPAMED 2024 in Düsseldorf have begun. A total of more than 5,500 exhibitors from approximately 70 countries will fill the entire hall space on the trade fair premises, and their innovations will highlight both events' place as globally unique information and business platforms serving the entire added-value chain of medical-technical systems and products - including manufacture and development.

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Why the NHS is Seeking to Make Media Services Free for Patients

Opinion Article by Dean Moody, Healthcare Services Director, Airwave Healthcare.
Tim Kelsey and Martha Lane Fox called for WiFi to be made available free of charge throughout the NHS back in 2015.

The vision of NHS England’s then national director for patients and information, and the former UK digital champion, was to give patients greater access to digital health apps, self-help tools, and social networks, in ways that could "support recovery and promote well-being".

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Great Start for Ideas and Innovations: DMEA 2025 'Call for Papers' Launched

8 - 10 April 2025, Berlin, Germany.
From 15 October to 15 November 2024, the DMEA invites experts from business, science, politics and practice to actively participate in shaping the congress programme on all three days of the event. Interested parties have the opportunity to submit their short abstracts free of charge Call for Papers.

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When it comes to Emergency Care, ChatGPT Overprescribes

If ChatGPT were cut loose in the Emergency Department, it might suggest unneeded x-rays and antibiotics for some patients and admit others who didn't require hospital treatment, a new study from UC San Francisco has found.

The researchers said that, while the model could be prompted in ways that make its responses more accurate, it's still no match for the clinical judgment of a human doctor.

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