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DMEA - Connecting Digital Health: Record Year with Over 700 Exhibitors and High-Level Speakers

25 - 27 April 2023, Berlin, Germany.
DMEA 2023 opens today with a wide range of topics on the digital transformation of the healthcare system. More than 300 speakers will be on the stages of the DMEA over the next three days, among them Federal Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, Dr. Susanne Ozegowski and Dr. Markus Leyck Dieken.

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DMEA sparks Brings Young Professionals Together with Companies, Universities and Hospitals

25 - 27 April 2023, Berlin, Germany.
Wanted: specialists. Jobs available: we are hiring. The digital health sector is urgently in need of new employees. Last year, there were around 290,000 job vacancies in the healthcare sector. That is where DMEA sparks comes in and wants to make a difference.

DMEA sparks combines the topics of careers, newcomers and sustainability, making it an even more important part of DMEA.

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AI Algorithm may Help Better Guide Oropharynx Cancer Treatment

For patients with human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated oropharynx cancer, assessing the presence of cancer cells beyond the lymph nodes, or extranodal extension (ENE), is critical in determining proper treatment. However, ENE is often challenging to detect on imaging pre-treatment, which can lead to an escalation in treatment resulting in greater toxicity and worse quality of life outcomes.

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Oracle and Zoom Join Forces to Expand Access to Virtual Care

Oracle and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. are expanding their collaboration to deliver faster, easier, and more effective telehealth services. By connecting telehealth capabilities with Oracle Cerner Millennium, Oracle and Zoom can enable providers around the world to join patient appointments more quickly and easily with the relevant patient electronic health record (EHR) at their fingertips.

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Haut.AI Becomes the First Company to Incorporate Generative AI for Skin Simulations

Haut.AI, a SaaS company specializing in artificial intelligence for skin, hair, and wellness analytics, has just announced its new generative AI tech for modeling skin conditions - SkinGPT. This breakthrough in the beauty industry uses AI to create synthetic images and apply skin conditions to input image data. SkinGPT enables users to upload their photos and apply AI to simulate how their skin will change over time when using certain skincare products.

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Researchers Help AI Express Uncertainty to Improve Health Monitoring Tech

A team of engineering and health researchers has developed a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing, which has applications in health monitoring. The new tool relies on an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that helps the AI better identify uncertainty when faced with unexpected data in real-world situations.

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Philips Joins Forces with AWS to Bring Philips HealthSuite Imaging PACS to the Cloud and Advance AI-Enabled Tools in Support of Clinicians

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology today announced the availability of Philips HealthSuite Imaging on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, Philips and AWS will build on their relationship, advancing AI in healthcare by applying Foundation Models using Amazon Bedrock to accelerate the development of cloud-based generative AI applications that will provide clinical decision support, help enable more accurate diagnoses, and automate administrative tasks.

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How AI and a Mobile Phone App could Help you Quit Smoking

A stop smoking mobile app that senses where and when you might be triggered to light up could help people quit - according to University of East Anglia research.

Quit Sense is the world's first Artificial Intelligence (AI) stop smoking app which detects when people are entering a location they used to smoke in. It then provides support to help manage people’s specific smoking triggers in that location.

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Creating an Artificial Pathologist

A team from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen has created a new, fast and precise method for clinicians to analyse cells in tissue samples from cancer patients without the need for a trained pathologist. They use artificial intelligence to evaluate the data their method produces.

During cancer surgery, fast and accurate information about the operated tissue is required to guide the surgeon's next steps.

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David Hancock Becomes an Associate of Highland Marketing

David Hancock, a long-standing expert on the health tech industry with a passion for interoperability, has become an associate of Highland Marketing.

In his new role, David will support clients of the specialist digital health agency that need advice on market entry or positioning, so they can communicate effectively with IT leaders at every level.

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