Philips Program Developing AI-Powered Ultrasound to Expand Access to Maternal Health Receives Major Funding Boost

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it has received a second round of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate global adoption of AI algorithms on Philips Lumify Handheld Ultrasound. By using AI to simplify key measurements to identify abnormalities during

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"Showtime" for Digital Health Innovations for the Future at MEDICA 2023

13 - 16 November 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany.
A hundred start-ups and more than 120 high-calibre professional speakers: These are just the "naked" facts which this year's MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM will present as an established part of the programme at the world's leading medical trade fair MEDICA 2023 in Düsseldorf from 13 to 16 November, which will feature more than 5.200 participating companies.

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Wolverhampton's New 10-Year EPR Deal with System C Propels Digital Maturity and Care Coordination

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has just signed a 10-year contract with System C for an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) system, which will replace the trust's in-house built EPR and accelerate its digital maturity and roadmap.

RWT, which is one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands, will be taking a two-step approach to the roll out.

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Collective Intelligence can Help Reduce Medical Misdiagnoses

An estimated 250,000 people die from preventable medical errors in the U.S. each year. Many of these errors originate during the diagnostic process. A powerful way to increase diagnostic accuracy is to combine the diagnoses of multiple diagnosticians into a collective solution. However, there has been a dearth of methods for aggregating independent diagnoses in general medical diagnostics.

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New Study Suggests ECG-AI can Detect Cardiovascular Disease Risks Sooner

Artificial intelligence (AI) from patient electrocardiograms (ECGs) may be an innovative solution to enhance heart disease risk assessment. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease - arteries narrowed or blocked by the accumulation of fatty plaques - is the leading global cause of death and is often driven by coronary artery disease.

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AI Research Project Aims to Personalise Prevention and Treatments for Heart Failure

World leading AI pioneer, Orbital Global, is proud to announce that it is a member of a new Horizon Europe research and innovation consortium, which aims to personalise prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Led by Novo Nordisk and Maastricht University, the iCARE4CVD (individualised care from early risk of cardiovascular disease to established heart failure) consortium is formed of thirty-three leading international partners from civil society, academia, and industry.

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Practicing Mindfulness with an App may Improve Children's Mental Health

Many studies have found that practicing mindfulness - defined as cultivating an open-minded attention to the present moment - has benefits for children. Children who receive mindfulness training at school have demonstrated improvements in attention and behavior, as well as greater mental health.

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Skin Cancer Diagnoses Using AI Are as Reliable as those Made by Medical Experts

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used in medical diagnostics. An Austrian-Australian research team led by dermatologist Harald Kittler from MedUni Vienna investigated the extent to which diagnosis and therapy of pigmented skin lesions benefit from it in a realistic clinical scenario.

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ChatGPT may be Better than Doctors at Evidence-Based Management of Clinical Depression

ChatGPT, the AI language model capable of mirroring human conversation, may be better than a doctor at following recognised treatment standards for clinical depression, and without any of the gender or social class biases sometimes seen in the primary care doctor-patient relationship, finds research published in the open access journal Family Medicine and Community Health.

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Philips Visual Patient Avatar Pioneers At-a-Glance Patient Data for Faster, Better Decision-Making in the Operating Room

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced the launch of Visual Patient Avatar, a revolutionary new monitoring solution that translates critical, yet complex patient data into a straightforward visual design as an easy-to-understand avatar display.

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