Article • Vocal pathology
New voice app to detect diseases
A new app measuring the biomechanics of the voice could impact the market of ENT and speech pathology products.
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Sponsored • e-learning
Boost your learning experience with PEPconnect
The healthcare industry is a competitive environment and clinical institutions have to deliver an ever higher quality of care. Keeping up with trainings and certifications is thus of utmost importance. The online learning platform PEPconnect from Siemens Healthineers enables caregivers to conveniently access continuous education and performance support anytime and anywhere. At the same time, it…
News • Radiology IT
Bracco Imaging invests in IT for Radiology
Bracco Imaging, a leading global company in the diagnostic imaging business, today announced a strategic investment in PHS Technologies Group, a division of PACSHealth, to further expand its portfolio of Informatics Solutions for Radiology.
Article • Virtual Brain
Computer model simulates epileptic events
Approximately one percent of the world population are epileptic; in France alone, an estimated 600,000 people regularly experience seizures.
News • Data Security
IT Researchers Break Anonymity of Gene Databases
DNA profiles can reveal a number of details about individuals. There are laws in place that regulate the trade of gene data. However, these laws do not apply to an equally relevant type of genetic data, so-called microRNAs. This means that anonymity needs to be strictly maintained in microRNA studies as well. Researchers from the Research Center for IT Security, CISPA, have now been able to show…
News • electronic pill e-Celsius
BodyCap receives medical CE mark for ingestible connected device
BodyCap, a company specialized in miniaturized wireless monitoring devices for e-health applications, yesterday announced that it has obtained the medical CE mark for e-Celsius from the LNE Gmed certifying organization.
Article • Display
New 4K UHD 32” endoscopy display from NDS now shipping
Silicon Valley-based medical visualization leader NDS has announced its Radiance® Ultra 4K Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) 32” endoscopy display is now in full production and shipping globally to major markets.
Article • Deep Learning
Philips and LabPON plan to create world’s largest pathology database
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and LabPON, the first clinical laboratory to transition to 100% histopathology digital diagnosis, today announced its plans to create a digital database of massive aggregated sets of annotated pathology images and big data utilizing Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution1. The database will provide pathologists with a wealth of clinical information for the…
News • Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality visor to dramatically improve surgery
Employing new photonics technology, European scientists are developing a new Augmented Reality surgical visor in a bid to improve accuracy of interventions, showing anaesthetic and medical data while superimposing a patient’s x-ray in perfect unison with their body, meaning surgeons never having to look away during an operation and surgery times reduced by over 20 minutes for every 3 hours.
Sponsored • Surgery
MobileDaRt Evolution MX7 series
Digital mobile X-ray systems equipped with a Flat Panel Detector (FPD) are used to examine patients during hospital rounds and for urgent cases in A&E and neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Leading medical equipment manufacturer Shimadzu (www.shimadzu-medical.eu) reports that its new MobileDaRt Evolution MX7 digital mobile X-ray systems provide ultra-modern and extensive mobile digital…
News • Deep Learning
Deep Learning predicts hematopoietic stem cell development
Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep Learning is generating more and more public awareness. Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and their partners at ETH Zurich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now used it to determine the development of hematopoietic stem cells in advance. In ‘Nature Methods’ they describe how their software…
Article • Protection
Hospitals need a holistic approach to cyber security
A number of organisations within healthcare remain at risk of leaving systems vulnerable by failing to ensure there is a broad range of protection in place to safeguard data from hackers or cyber attack.
News • Telepathology
Sectra to implement unique nationwide telepathology solution in the Netherlands
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract with the organization Pathology Projects (SPP) in the Netherlands to offer all 50 pathology labs in the country to connect to a shared telepathology solution. Sectra’s cloud-based image-sharing solution will enable pathologists to efficiently share digital pathology images on a national scale.…
Sponsored • POCT Interfaces
EKF - Connectivity now available on HbA1c Analyzers
EKF Diagnostics are previewing the new connectivity solution for their range of point-of-care HbA1c analyzers at Arab Health 2017 on stand number Z1.H30.
Article • Diversity is the enemy
x-Health: Demands for real interoperability
Britta Böckmann, Professor for Health Informatics at the Technical University of Dortmund summarises the lack of feeling for terms such as eHealth, mHealth and telehealth with the description xHealth.
Article • Diagnostic radiology solution
Going fully digital in a single key stroke
Installing a complete diagnostic radiology solution to network six sites of a hospital group, to process, manage and archive image data acquired across all modalities, is a ‘challenge’, acknowledged by Professor Dr Peter Landwehr, Medical Director of the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of Diakovere Henriettenstift, Hanover, Germany. In 2010, he and his team overcame that…
News • iCAGES
New precision medicine tool helps optimize cancer treatment
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created a computational tool that can rapidly predict which genes are implicated in an individual’s cancer and recommend treatments. It is among the most comprehensive tools of its kind, and the first that incorporates a user-friendly web interface that requires little knowledge of bioinformatics.
Article • Embedded computing
Sensing and communicating our ups/downs and many needs
The power of computing grows more pervasive as it is increasingly integrated into everyday items within our immediate environment, as in smart toothbrushes, for example, or a vortex whistle for managing chronic lung function via smartphones. This September, scientists, developers and designers from around the world met in Heidelberg, Germany, for two parallel events: ACM International Joint…
Article • Pathology
Creating a data powerhouse
The ability to digitise results from patient samples has been one of the key enabling technologies that make personalised medicine possible now, says Dr Fiona Carragher, the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer for NHS England.
Sponsored • Workflow
Opt for state-of-the-art visual technology
In today’s digitised world, hospitals are already embracing the benefits which technology brings to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Against a backdrop of stretched resources and operational scrutiny hospital managers are able to address the needs of multiple stakeholders through hospital-wide digitalisation.
News • Digital pathology
Visiopharm A/S acquires LRI Imaging AB
Visiopharm A/S announces its acquisition of LRI Imaging AB. With more than 10 years of experience in the field, many successful installations in routine diagnostic pathology labs, LRI Imaging AB is the leading diagnostic digital pathology provider in Sweden.
Article • Pattern regocnition
Turning a CT scan into a virtual biopsy
Cloud-based mining of medical images will transform clinical radiology the same way that online access to genetic data has transformed clinical biology, according to Frederik Brag, the CEO of Median Technologies.
Interview • Big Data
Automation helps radiologists
The billions of medical images taken and diagnoses made every year across the globe are as varied in quality, detail and structure as the situations in which they are obtained.
News • Digital pathology
Pathcore and Visiopharm provide a powerful image analysis
Pathcore and Visiopharm today announced a partnership to provide enhanced workflow software solutions for quantitative analysis and management of digital pathology images.
News • Digital Pathology
Sectra and Visiopharm enter cooperation for open systems
International medical imaging IT company Sectra and digital pathology company Visiopharm A/S have reached agreement on an open exchange of pathology images between their respective digital pathology systems. The companies agree that open solutions and the free exchange of information between the various healthcare IT systems without “internal company formats” are of benefit to both customers…
