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BlueRock Therapeutics to Incorporate Wearable and Invisible Contactless Digital Health Technologies from Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations in Parkinson's Disease Clinical Trial

BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company and wholly-owned, independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced a collaboration with Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations focused on using wearable and invisible contactless digital health technology to improve monitoring and data collection for Parkinson's disease clinical trials.

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Hospital Future Act, AI, Consumer Health - Numerous Aspects of Digital Health at DMEA 2023

25 - 27 April 2023, Berlin, Germany.
The congress programme at DMEA 2023 has been announced: over the three days of the event more than 200 speakers from all over the world will present their visions of digitalisation in the healthcare system. Among those taking part will be Federal Health Minister Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, Dr. Susanne Ozegowski and Dr. med. Markus Leyck Dieken.

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Why I Keep my Mum in Mind when Designing Clinical Audit

Opinion Article by Martin Dean, System Architect, CaseCapture.
Healthcare professionals don't want to spend their time with clinical audit software. This might appear an unusual statement for someone who builds that very technology. But for me, recognising this is one of the most important parts of meeting the needs of our clinical users, and ultimately their patients.

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Can ChatGPT be Counted On?

A study in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute Cancer Spectrum looked at chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI), as they become popular resources for cancer information. They found these resources give accurate information when asked about common cancer myths and misconceptions. In the first study of its kind, Skyler Johnson, MD, physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute and assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Utah (the U), evaluated the reliability and accuracy of ChatGPT's cancer information.

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NHS Patients Targeted to Reduce Risks as they Wait for Hospital Treatment

Surgeons say the NHS 'Waiting Well' initiative now has national relevance - the project has already shown improved outcomes, reduced complications and shorter stays for patients taking part, at a time when more than seven million people in England are on waiting lists.

Led by integrated care board NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, with the support of technology partner C2-Ai and health coaching provider Surgery Hero, the programme is helping to locate and provide urgently needed support for some of the most vulnerable patients awaiting surgery.

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Study Reveals Smartphone Spyware Apps are Hard to Detect and Remove

Smartphone spyware apps that allow people to spy on each other are not only hard to notice and detect, they also will easily leak the sensitive personal information they collect, says a team of computer scientists from New York and San Diego.

While publicly marketed as tools to monitor underage children and employees using their employer’s equipment, spyware apps are also frequently used by

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Orion Health Appoints Mark Hindle as Vice President, UK and Ireland

Orion Health has appointed Mark Hindle as its new vice president for the UK and Ireland. Mark has joined the leading supplier of digital tools to improve healthcare experience from Evergreen Life, a personal health record app provider.

In his new role, he said his priority will be to support Orion Health’s existing customers and help them upgrade to the latest, cloud-based version of its platform.

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AI can Help Optimize CT Scan X-Ray Radiation Dose

Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most powerful and well-established diagnostic tools available to modern medicine. An increasing number of people have been opting for CT scans, raising concerns about the amount of X-ray radiation that patients are exposed to. Ideally, a patient is exposed to minimum radiation levels during treatments or diagnostic procedures, while still receiving the expected benefit.

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Virtual Reality Games can be Used as a Tool in Personnel Assessment

Virtual reality gamers (VR game) who finished it faster than their fellow gamers also have higher levels of general intelligence and processing capacity. This was the result of a study conducted by the University of Cologne, the University of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. The results also indicate that virtual reality games can be useful supplementary human resource management tools in companies for predicting the job performance of an applicant.

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Detecting Anaemia Earlier in Children Using a Smartphone

Researchers at UCL and University of Ghana have successfully predicted whether children have anaemia using only a set of smartphone images.

The study, published in PLOS ONE, brought together researchers and clinicians at UCL Engineering, UCLH and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana to investigate a new non-invasive diagnostic technique using smartphone photographs of the eye and face.

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