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For Shared Decision-Making, Telemedicine may be as Effective as in-Person Appointments

Telemedicine may be just as effective as in-person visits when it comes to shared decision-making and communication for patients undergoing a first-time surgery consultation, according to a study published as an "article in press" in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) and presented at the Southern Surgical Association 134th Annual Meeting in December 2022.

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Veradigm Announces Strategic Investment in Holmusk

Veradigm Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX), formerly Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., announced an investment in Holmusk, a global behavioral health real-world evidence and data analytics company, as part of Holmusk's $45 million series B financing round. The round was led by Veradigm, with participation from current investors including Heritas Capital, Health Catalyst Capital, Novartis (dRx Capital), and Northwell Holdings, the venture investment arm of Northwell Health, as well as other previous investors.

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Open Call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-STAYHLTH-01: Staying Healthy

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several impacts of destination 1 "Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society". To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed at, tailored towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

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220M€ Investment in Testing and Experimentation Facilities to Boost the Uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics in Europe

To make the EU the place where AI excellence thrives from the lab to the market, the European Union is setting up world-class Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) for AI.

Together with Member States, the Commission is co-funding the TEFs to support AI developers to bring trustworthy AI to the market more efficiently, and facilitate its uptake in Europe.

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AI Tool Developed to Predict Risk of Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and around the world. Low-dose chest computed tomography (LDCT) is recommended to screen people between 50 and 80 years of age with a significant history of smoking, or who currently smoke. Lung cancer screening with LDCT has been shown to reduce death from lung cancer by up to 24 percent.

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Artificial Nerve Cells - Almost Like Biological

Researchers at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, have created an artificial organic neuron that closely mimics the characteristics of biological nerve cells. This artificial neuron can stimulate natural nerves, making it a promising technology for various medical treatments in the future.

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Bayer to Accelerate Drug Discovery with Google Cloud's High-Performance Compute Power

Bayer AG and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to drive early drug discovery that will apply Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are custom-developed accelerators designed to run cutting-edge machine learning models and computationally-intensive workloads, to help accelerate and scale Bayer's quantum chemistry calculations.

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Applications Open for SpinLab Accelerator Program

The start-up accelerator supports entrepreneurial and innovative teams that want to grow sustainably and successfully scale their business model. With a strong hands-on mentality and a lot of passion, the SpinLab team works to ensure that promising startups receive all the necessary resources as well as sufficient professional support for long-term success in the market.

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Allscripts Announces Corporate Name Change to Veradigm Inc.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced that, effective January 1, 2023, it has changed its name to Veradigm Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX). Allscripts had been transitioning its solutions to the Veradigm brand during 2022, and Allscripts will now formally be known as Veradigm.

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New Computer Program 'Learns' to Identify Mosaic Mutations that Cause Disease

Genetic mutations cause hundreds of unsolved and untreatable disorders. Among them, DNA mutations in a small percentage of cells, called mosaic mutations, are extremely difficult to detect because they exist in a tiny percentage of the cells.

Current DNA mutation software detectors, while scanning the 3 billion bases of the human genome, are not well suited to discern mosaic mutations hiding among normal DNA sequences.

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