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CliniSys Hires Mark Spencer as Senior Vice President of Global Strategy

CliniSys announced that Mark Spencer has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Global Strategy. A 25-year veteran in the life sciences and healthcare IT industry, Mark will be charged with driving growth globally.

As the world looks to improve public health now and after the pandemic, Mark will work closely with the senior leadership team to

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AUTOMA+ Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress 2022

26 - 27 September 2022, Zurich, Switzerland.
Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress is an annual B2B networking event, which is held on September, 26 - 27, 2022, in Zurich, Switzerland. More than 250 professionals from the whole value chain of the healthcare industry including Novo Nordisk, Lundbeck, Zuellig Pharma Limited and many others gather to present their case-studies, exchange their experience in digital transformation and network.

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Researchers Develop Highly Accurate Modeling Tool to Predict COVID-19 Risk

As new coronavirus variants emerge and quickly spread around the globe, both the public and policymakers are faced with a quandary: maintaining a semblance of normality, while also minimizing infections. While digital contact tracing apps offered promise, the adoption rate has been low, due in part to privacy concerns.

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More than 100,000 Unknown Viruses have been Discovered Using a New Computer Tool

Viruses are the largest known group of biological agents. Now, an international team of scientists with the participation of the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has taken an important step towards understanding their diversity.

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Philips and University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel Sign 10-Year Partnership to Advance Patient Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and the University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg, Germany) have signed a 10-year strategic partnership to renew and expand the hospital's diagnostic and therapy options through the delivery of advanced technology solutions.

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System C to Officially Launch its ICS Ready EPR Solution in February

System C is close to completion on its £200m five-year investment programme in the Medway EPR, a patient management and electronic patient record system designed and built specifically for the NHS. The company is preparing for the nationwide launch of CareFlow EPR at three virtual events in February, March, and April 2022, with live demonstrations and learnings from those pioneering the use of the new system.

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App and Lab Kit can Turn Your Smartphone into a COVID-19 and Flu Virus Detection Test

In a potential game changer for COVID-19 pandemic control efforts, a new cell phone app and lab kit have transformed a smartphone into a COVID-19 / flu detection system. The detection system is among the most rapid, sensitive, affordable and scalable tests known - and can be readily adapted for other pathogens with pandemic potential including deadly variants of COVID and flu. It also provides a platform for inexpensive home-based testing.

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Players Needed to Solve Puzzles and Help Advance Cancer Research

The CRG and CNAG-CRG have launched GENIGMA, a videogame that enlists players to solve puzzles while generating real-world scientific data that can detect alterations in genomic sequences and ultimately advance breast cancer research.

The game, out today on iOS and Android and available in English, Spanish, Catalan and Italian, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year long citizen science project developed by a team of researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) and game professionals.

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Philips Introduces First at-Home, 12-lead ECG Integrated Solution for Decentralized Clinical Trials

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the introduction of the industry's first full-service, at-home, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) solution for use in decentralized clinical trials. The clinical-grade solution is the most advanced patient-centric ECG offering within the company's cardiac monitoring portfolio, pairing data readings comparable to clinical, site-based ECGs with Philips leading cloud-based data collection and analysis services.

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The First AI Breast Cancer Sleuth that Shows its Work

Computer engineers and radiologists at Duke University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans to determine if a patient should receive an invasive biopsy. But unlike its many predecessors, this algorithm is interpretable, meaning it shows physicians exactly how it came to its conclusions.

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