Countdown to Digital Health #Rewired24 Begins

12 - 13 March 2024, Birmingham, UK.
The countdown to Digital Health Rewired 2024 has begun with the announcement of the first keynote speakers and official opening of delegate registration and call for speakers.

Matthew Taylor, CEO of the NHS Confederation, and Greta Westwood, CEO of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, are the first two keynote speakers announced, reflecting the critical importance of digital and data to all NHS managers and nurses and clinicians.

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Med Tech and Health Tech: Strategies and Opportunities

The Department of Health and Social Care has just published a strategy for medical technology. The Highland Marketing advisory board asked what chief information officers need to know about it; and how they can make the most of the opportunities that will come from integrating device data with medical records.

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ikHerstel App Ensures 30% Faster Recovery After Major Abdominal Operations

Through the use of eHealth application ikHerstel, patients recover from major abdominal operations 30% faster than patients who do not use the app. That is the main conclusion of research led by Amsterdam UMC across eleven Dutch hospitals. The app aims to empower patients to feel more in control of their recovery process. The results were published today in Lancet Digital Health.

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New Neuroimaging Approach could Improve Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

New research led by scientists working with Georgia State University's TReNDS Center has identified age-related changes in brain patterns associated with the risk for developing schizophrenia.

The discovery could help clinicians identify the risk for developing mental illness earlier and improve treatment options. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Google & ChatGPT Have Mixed Results in Medical Information Queries

When you need accurate information about a serious illness, should you go to Google or ChatGPT?

An interdisciplinary study led by University of California, Riverside, computer scientists found that both internet information gathering services have strengths and weaknesses for people seeking information about Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

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AI-Based Wastewater Sampling Predicts COVID Hospital Admissions

It is possible to accurately predict hospital admission numbers due to COVID-19 up to four weeks in advance using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based system together with COVID wastewater sampling, new research shows.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, used wastewater data from 159 counties in the US, covering nearly 100 million Americans, along with US hospital admission records, to develop the prediction model.

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Reinforcement Learning for Improved Performance of AI Explored

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used to diagnose skin cancer, but it cannot (yet) keep pace with the complex decision-making of doctors in practice. An international research team led by Harald Kittler of MedUni Vienna has now explored a learning method in which greater accuracy in AI results can be achieved by incorporating human decision-making criteria.

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IMAGIO Consortium Receives Innovative Health Initiative EUR 24 Million Grant to Improve Cancer Treatments

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced that the Philips-coordinated IMAGIO consortium [1] of clinical partners has been awarded a EUR 24 million Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) grant, complemented with additional resources and funding from industry partners [2], to carry out research into less invasive cancer treatments.

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AI-Based System Developed by Lithuanian Researchers will Help People after Stroke

Statistics indicate that globally 1 in 4 adults over the age of 25 will have a stroke in their lifetime. One of the most serious consequences of this disease is disability. The joint study by Rytis Maskeliūnas, a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics (KTU IF), and Lithuanian researchers is focused on creating an artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that aims to facilitate the rehabilitation process.

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AI Uses Lung CT Data to Predict Mortality Risk

Artificial intelligence (AI) can use data from low-dose CT scans of the lungs to improve risk prediction for death from lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and other causes, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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