Can Smartphones Predict Mortality Risk?

Passive smartphone monitoring of people’s walking activity can be used to construct population-level models of health and mortality risk, according to a new study publishing October 20th in the open access journal PLOS Digital Health by Bruce Schatz of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and colleagues.

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ki:elements Publishes New Validation Results on Remote Speech Biomarker for Cognition (SB-C) in Early Alzheimer's Disease

Digital speech biomarker company ki:elements has published validation results on the use of its ki:e speech biomarker for cognition (SB-C) in early Alzheimer’s disease in the "Karger - Digital Biomarkers" journal.(1)

Two European dementia studies - the Dutch DeepSpA study in collaboration with Maastricht University & the Scottish SPeAK study in collaboration with University of Edinburgh - helped to validate the psychometric properties of the SB-C.

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Crisis, What Crisis? When Things Go Wrong, Good Communications can Get You Back on Track

Opinion Article by Mark Venables, Co-Founder, Highland Marketing.
The thing with crises is that they're sudden, unexpected, and not under your control. You think it'll never happen to you, then you're part of the news cycle - and not in a good way.

In our sector, problems are pretty much inevitable. Think about it. Healthcare technology is tricky stuff.

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Cleveland Clinic and IBM Begin Installation of IBM Quantum System One

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have begun deployment of the first private sector onsite, IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System is to be located on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland.

The first quantum computer in healthcare, anticipated to be completed in early 2023, is a key part of the two organizations'10-year partnership aimed at fundamentally advancing the pace of biomedical research through high-performance computing.

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A New AI Model can Accurately Predict Human Response to Novel Drug Compounds

The journey between identifying a potential therapeutic compound and Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug can take well over a decade and cost upwards of a billion dollars. A research team at the CUNY Graduate Center has created an artificial intelligence model that could significantly improve the accuracy and reduce the time and cost of the drug development process.

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Speech as a New Diagnostic Tool in ALS and FTD

With the help of speech tests, an initial diagnosis of severe neurodegenerative diseases should be possible in the future. Researchers at the DZNE are developing so-called digital biomarkers for this purpose - these are criteria that an artificial intelligence can use to detect whether a patient's speech pattern has changed as a result of a disease. The technology manages to detect even slightest speech changes that are inaudible to the human ear.

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DigiHealthDay-2022 @ DIT-ECRI, Third Call and Update

11 November 2022, Pfarrkirchen, Germany.
On Friday, 11 November, 2022, the third edition of the International Symposium DigiHealthDay, will be hosted by the European Campus Rottal-Inn of Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT-ECRI). The Premier Sponsor of this year's event is SHL Telemedicine.

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MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM Focuses on Sustainability - the Value of Health IT in Fighting Climate Change

14 - 17 November 2022, Düsseldorf, Germany.
When it comes to current developments within international health IT, there is no way around the world's leading medical trade fair at Düsseldorf and its accompanying programme, which offers further professional insights. Apart from the new products of the more than 4,200 participants from about 70 nations at MEDICA 2022,

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Dr Mike Roberts Joins Health Analytics Provider C2-Ai as Medical Director

UK headquartered healthcare analytics company C2-Ai has appointed a senior clinician as its new medical director international.

Dr Mike Roberts, who has a background in emergency medicine and cardiothoracic surgery, has worked in both the NHS and in New Zealand, where he has held chief medical officer and medical director roles for more than 15 years.

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Telemedicine Program Halves Time to Treatment

When struggling to conceive, every second that ticks by feels precious. That makes it easy to get discouraged: 65 percent of those who seek fertility care eventually discontinue treatment, the majority due to stress. That's why Penn Medicine recently instituted a telemedicine-driven program aimed at seeing patients more quickly and starting treatments sooner.

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