Statistical Approach to COVID-19 Clinical Trials Aims to Accelerate Drug Approval Process
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, freely available via open access, describing new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines and other anti-infective therapies. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Allscripts U.K. Client Gloucestershire Hospitals Achieves Successful Go-Live with E-Observations Solution Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, located in the United Kingdom, has successfully gone live with the latest addition to its Allscripts electronic health record, despite the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Allscripts Business and Industry Source Type: news
Allscripts U.K. Client Gloucestershire Hospitals Achieves Successful Go-Live with E-Observations Aolution Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, located in the United Kingdom, has successfully gone live with the latest addition to its Allscripts electronic health record, despite the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Allscripts Business and Industry Source Type: news
Philips Launches HealthSuite Clinical Trial Accelerator to Help Life Science Organizations Run More Flexible, Patient-Centric Clinical Trials
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced Clinical Trial Accelerator on Philips HealthSuite. This new tailored set of capabilities allows life science organizations to integrate, analyze and store clinical and patient-reported data from multiple sources, providing actionable insights for better, faster decision-making. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 20, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Philips Business and Industry Source Type: news
Accurate Mapping of Human Travel Patterns with Global Smartphone Data
Understanding people's short- and long-distance travel patterns can inform economic development, urban planning, and responses to natural disasters, wars and conflicts, disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. A new global mapping method, developed by scientists from Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Oxford, provides global estimates of human mobility at much greater resolution than was possible before. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 19, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
High Five! It's Possible to Create Proximity Online
Despite physical distance, it's possible to create proximity between family members located in different places. This is according to a study from Linköping University that has investigated how video calls bring family members together. The results show that proximity in video calls is established mainly by way of the body and the senses, e.g. by giving a digital high five. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 18, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
New AI Diagnostic can Predict COVID-19 without Testing
Researchers at King's College London, Massachusetts General Hospital and health science company ZOE have developed an artificial intelligence diagnostic that can predict whether someone is likely to have COVID-19 based on their symptoms. Their findings are published today in Nature Medicine. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
WiFi SPARK Works with Visionable to Connect Patients with their Loved ones
Seven NHS Trusts are using technology developed by WiFi SPARK in response to an urgent request from leading NHS Trusts to find a way to connect hospital patients with their loved ones during the coronavirus outbreak. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 14, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
Highland Marketing Advisory Board: Plan Now to Sustain COVID-19 Health Tech Advances
Highland Marketing's board of NHS IT and industry leaders has recognised the uptick in health tech adopting during the Covid-19 crisis. But at their most recent meeting, members argued that a second wave of innovation is now needed; alongside a plan to embed change in the health care system. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
Biomax Provides AI-Based Semantic Search Platform AILANI and Supports COVID-19 International Efforts
The bioinformatics company Biomax, headquartered in Planegg, Germany, makesitssemantic search platform AILANI available free of charge to research institutes around the world in order to support the rapid and successful search for drugs and suitable vaccinesagainst COVID-19 infections. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the potential of telehealth to improve care
Two new articles provide insights on the use of telehealth or virtual care in the age of COVID-19 and beyond, pointing to its value to not only prevent contagious diseases but also to provide access to effective and equitable care.
In a Nature Partner Journal's Digital Medicine perspective, Lee H. Schwamm, MD, Director of the Center for TeleHealth at Massachusetts General Hospital and Vice President of Virtual Care at Partners Healthcare, and his colleagues stress that virtual care, by collapsing the barriers of time and distance, is ideal for providing care that is patient-centered, lower cost, more convenient and with g...
Source: eHealth News EU - May 12, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Viveo Health Offers Free Telemedicine Solution to Doctors Worldwide
Viveo Health, a global e-Health innovator, is making its 'Virtual Office for Doctors' platform free of charge to doctors and other medical professionals worldwide in light of the surge in demand for telemedicine appointments. In the battle against COVID-19, medical providers around the world have had to make services digital overnight. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 12, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
DigiConnect: e-healthcare - 24/7 Health for All in the Time of COVID-19
Given the current outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare providers in the Middle East along with the rest of the world are currently putting relentless efforts to provide an innovative offering that eases the burden on traditional hospital resources and make healthcare accessible for all. As a result, the case for virtual hospitals has become stronger than ever. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 11, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Events Source Type: news
InsurTech Hub Munich and dmac/Digital Health Hub Nuremberg/Erlangen Launch New Accelerator Focused on Digital Health
InsurTech Hub Munich (ITHM) and dmac - Medical Valley Digital Health Application Center part of the Digital Health Hub Nuremberg/Erlangen announce a new cross-industry accelerator for the second half of 2020. The H+ Innovation Programme will focus on digital health solutions. Applications open April 21, startups are invited to apply until the end of May. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 8, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
