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Location Tracking Apps and Privacy Implications

How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers - Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Benjamin Baron (University College London, UK) - carried out a field study using an app specifically developed for this research.

A Machine-Learning Approach to Finding Treatment Options for COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. "Making new drugs takes forever," says Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society, and an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Computational Medicine - Moving from Uncertainty to Precision

Individual choices in medicine carry a certain amount of uncertainty.

An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care.

Wearable Devices can Detect COVID-19 Symptoms and Predict Diagnosis

Wearable devices can identify COVID-19 cases earlier than traditional diagnostic methods and can help track and improve management of the disease, Mount Sinai researchers report in one of the first studies on the topic. The findings were published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on January 29.

Researchers Develop Data Tool that may Improve Care

With the aid of sophisticated machine learning, researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated that a tool they developed can rapidly predict mortality for patients facing transfer between hospitals in order to access higher-acuity care. This research, published today in PLOS One, could help physicians, patients and their families avoid unnecessary hospital transfers and low-value treatments, while better focusing on the goals of care expressed by patients.

EU4Health: MEPs Reach Deal with Council on 2021-2027 EU Health Programme

The new EU health programme, worth 5.1 billion EUR, will help to fix shortcomings exposed by COVID-19 and boost quality and resilience of EU health systems.

Parliament negotiators agreed on a deal with member states to significantly step up the EU’s action in the health sector through a dedicated 5.1 billion EUR "EU4Health Programme" as part of the EU’s recently agreed long-term budget.

New Neural Network Enables Easy Screening of Sleep Apnoea in Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease

A new neural network developed by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital enables an easy and accurate assessment of sleep apnoea severity in patients with cerebrovascular disease. The assessment is automated and based on a simple nocturnal pulse oximetry, making it possible to easily screen for sleep apnoea in stroke units.

Research and Development News

Location Tracking Apps and Privacy Implications

A Machine-Learning Approach to Finding Treatment Options for COVID-19

Computational Medicine - Moving from Uncertainty to Precision

Wearable Devices can Detect COVID-19 Symptoms and Predict Diagnosis

Researchers Develop Data Tool that may Improve Care

EU4Health: MEPs Reach Deal with Council on 2021-2027 EU Health Programme

New Neural Network Enables Easy Screening of Sleep Apnoea in Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease

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