Novartis and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Transform Medicine with Artificial Intelligence
Novartis announced an important step in reimagining medicine by founding the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selecting Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort. The new lab aims to bolster Novartis AI capabilities from research through commercialization and help accelerate the discovery and development of transformative medicines for patients worldwide.
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Patient Safety Learning Urges New Approach by Health and Social Care Sector to Stop Thousands of Avoidable Deaths Each Year
Patient Safety Learning today announced acampaign to end the thousands of avoidable deaths each year from unsafe patient care. The charity is calling for a new approach throughout all areas of the health and social care system to ensure improvements in patient safety. This involves providers, commissioners, policy makers, regulators, patient groups, and individual patients and families.
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IMS MAXIMS Wins Healthcare Innovation Award
Health technology specialist IMS MAXIMS has been recognised for its innovative work in the UK and Irish healthcare market in the 2019 CV Business Innovator Awards. The company has been named as the leading innovator in healthcare administration software, in recognition of the quality of its patient administration system and electronic patient record solutions, which it provides to more than 180 healthcare organisations.
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Abbott Announces New Data that Shows Artificial Intelligence Technology can Help Doctors Better Determine which Patients are Having a Heart Attack
Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced that new research, published in the journal Circulation, found its algorithm could help doctors in hospital emergency rooms more accurately determine if someone is having a heart attack or not, so that they can receive faster treatments or be safely discharged.
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UKCloud Health selected by NHS Shared Business Services to Provide Multi-Cloud Services on its New Cloud Solutions Framework
UKCloud Health, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to powering the Healthcare community, has today announced that it has been awarded a place on all 4 lots of the new NHS Shared Business Services Cloud Solutions framework which runs for initial 2-year term with the option to extend to 2023.
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Isansys 'Smart Patch' Wireless Monitoring Platform Supports Early Interventions and Opens Potential New Pathways for Patients with Advanced Liver Disease
Isansys Lifecare, a digital healthcare company and developer of the Patient Status Engine, an innovative patient monitoring platform,and the Lifetouch wireless "smart patch" cardiac sensor, today announces the results of a study pointing to a new pathway for managing patients with advanced liver disease based on new methods employing data-driven biomarkers.
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Milton Keynes Hospital Becomes First NHS Trust to Digitally Share Information to Protect Women from FGM
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) has become the first NHS Trust to introduce an information sharing tool which aims to protect women at risk of suffering female genital mutilation (FGM). The Female Genital Mutilation-Information Sharing (FGM-IS) solution is a tool which allows relevant, authorised healthcare professionals and administrative staff in the region to view information about girls with a family history of FGM, providing an opportunity to safeguard at-risk patients.
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