Scottish Elderly and Vulnerable Citizens to Benefit from Digital Infrastructure Investment
The Scottish government's decision to invest £116 million in digital public services will enable the country’s elderly and vulnerable to benefit from the latest in ‘smart’ and technology-enabled care services, one of the country's leading providers has said.
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Qualcomm Expands Collaboration with Novartis for Connected COPD Therapy
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Novartis are expanding their global connected therapy management collaboration. Novartis will leverage Qualcomm Life's connectivity solutions to power its next-generation connected Breezhaler™, the inhaler for its Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) portfolio.
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Top 20 eHealth News Articles - Look Back at 2015
eHealthNews.eu invites its readers to look back at the top 20 eHealth news articles that are worth revisiting. Look back at the most prominent moments from the past year. According to the collected web statistics the most commonly viewed news, the Top 20 news articles of the Year 2015 are:
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XENiOS® Will Seek Regulatory Approval for i-lung®
XENiOS®, a commercial-stage medical device company, announced today it expects to receive CE-marking for its i-lung® device within 18 months. XENIOS expects to launch i-lung® in 2017. Currently available devices lack durability and wearability. Additionally, the size of current systems restricts patient mobility and limits quality of life.
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Women Can Now Track Their Fertility with Apple Watch
Knowing when to get pregnant may be one of the most important pieces of personal health information. Yet, a recent study conducted on 3,000 men and women across the US, UK and Sweden, reveals that less than 30% are aware of how the female body works.(1) Natural Cycles, the clinically-tested fertility app, aims to change that and announced the launch of their Apple Watch app.
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Wolters Kluwer Expands UpToDate with Primary Care Sports Medicine
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has added primary care sports medicine to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, marking the 23rd medical specialty available to subscribing clinicians and healthcare institutions around the world.
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Ascom Acquires the Italian Medical Software Company UMS
Ascom has acquired the Italian software company UMS (United Medical Software), which provides integrations for medical devices and supplies digital medical records software solutions for life-critical patient care. With the acquisition of UMS, Ascom will gain access to new software and competence for global integrated workflow solutions in Healthcare ICT.
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