The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has launched an online portal to help technology companies understand how to break into the UK health market. Continue reading
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“Second Skin Day”, a conference on Internet of Body
The Pervasive Electromagnetics Lab at Tor Vergata University of Rome has organized for March 26 the “Second Skin Day”, a workshop on bio-integrated wireless systems for monitoring the epidermis and restoring tactile functions. Continue reading
From the doorbell to the personal vocal assistant. How hospital rooms are evolving.
Cedars-Sinai has installed Amazon Echos in more than 100 hospital rooms to activate the Alexa-powered platform called Aiva, which patients can use to control their entertainment and interact with nurses. Continue reading
Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future
The British National Health Service commissioned cardiologist and digital healthresearcher Eric Topol to write a report about how cutting-edge technologies like genomics, AI and robotics will change medicine and how to prepare healthcare professionals to exploit this potential. Continue reading
Medicine without doctors: a glimpse of the future
Although there is a great deal of attention on the technological revolution in medicine, little is said about how the role of doctors will change. They are generally very jealous and unwilling to consider any reduction or “field invasion” in their profession. Continue reading
MEDinISRAEL international conference
From 25 to 28 March, the fifth edition of this event will be held in Tel Aviv, with an interesting conference programme and the presence of exhibitors with truly innovative products. Continue reading
Are health organizations ready for the digital transformation?
What is the level of maturity of healthcare organizations to face the digital transformation? Let’s try to understand together which aspects have to be considered in order to evaluate the readiness to this change. Continue reading
A task force to improve UK Hospitals
A network of professionals in healthcare transformation launched an initiative to support public and private hospitals to enhance security, efficiency and care experience. Continue reading
The Customization of Healthcare Software does not create value while disadvantaging customers and suppliers
In every application environment, even if with different intensity, the software customization is a very diffused phenomenon which increases costs, lengthens the realization times, compromises the quality and complicate the software management. Continue reading
Face recognition and AI can accelerate the diagnosis of rare genetic disorders
A study published this month on the magazine Nature Medicine describes how the facial recognition together with the artificial intelligence can help identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders, so accelerating the syndrome identification. Continue reading
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