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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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Can ChatGPT Diagnose Your Condition? Not yet

ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has been increasingly used in health care contexts, one of which is assisting patients in self-diagnosing before seeking medical help. Although it seems very useful at first glance, AI may cause more harm than good to the patient if it is not accurate in its diagnosis and recommendations.

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Siemens Healthineers to Equip Braunschweig Municipal Hospital's Central Laboratory

Siemens Healthineers and Braunschweig Municipal Hospital signed a 10-year contract for a new diagnostics and analysis center at the hospital. As general contractor, Siemens Healthineers will supply all the medical technology for a the new, highly automated interdisciplinary center and operate it across manufacturers.

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DMEA Call for Papers: Connecting the World of Digital Health

9 - 11 April 2024, Berlin, Germany.
The call for congress papers at DMEA 2024, Europe's leading event for digital health, is open now. Candidates are invited to submit their abstracts for the DMEA congress on the DMEA website by 17 November.

Healthcare meets digitalisation: DMEA - Connecting Digital Health will be gathering everyone aiming to drive digitalisation in healthcare on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds.

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Philips Supports Tampere Heart Hospital in Finland to Decarbonize its Clinical Operations

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the completion of a comprehensive hospital-wide analysis of Tampere Heart Hospital - Tampere University Hospital's (Finland) environmental sustainability, including a deep assessment of the interventional cardiology space and evaluation of its carbon footprint.

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Telehealth Supports Retention in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Starting buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder through telehealth was associated with an increased likelihood of staying in treatment longer compared to starting treatment in a non-telehealth setting, according to a new study analyzing Medicaid data from 2019-2020 in Kentucky and Ohio.

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