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Our BANN is Simple Really

Trying to explain innovations in medical science has to be difficult, for most people, most of the time. When that science is combined with advanced statistical theory and computer technology the problem gets a lot bigger, fast.  The word about our research is getting out, which is good, resulting in lots of smart people wanting [...]

SME Partner for FP7 Projects

The EUs Framework Programme 7 is the most ambitious yet, targeting investment at research commercial businesses won’t pursue.  Grants are provided to academic and science communities, helping cover the costs of discovering new ways to  address issues impacting the European Community and beyond. Consortia comprising institutions and SMEs across the European States are enabled in [...]

Healthcare Freakonomics

For some strange reason the healthcare sector manages to escape the sort of forensic analysis others are subjected to. There’s this strange coalition of patient confidentiality, ethics, professional integrity and public policy. These combine to create this “opaque soup” of information which nobody understands and even fewer believe. In the UK we get bombarded by [...]

Is the Future of High-Performance Computing Cloudy

High-performance computing (HPC) has come a long way for life sciences. Twenty years ago, expensive parallel supercomputers were required to render proteins in three dimensions (3-D) and run software that helped researchers understand their shape. Now 3-D rendering can be done on graphics cards in workstations, laptops, and even phones. Compute clusters using many commodity [...]

Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EC

Yesterdays newsletter from the Association of British Healthcare Industries gave an Overview of Coming Changes under Directive 2007/47/EC as follows: Clinical Data Modifications have been made to a number of the articles and relevant annexes. These concern clinical data and its evaluation and there are a number of references to clinical data in the provisions [...]

Sharing Clinical Data

Aggregating and sharing data needs to be at the very heart of clinical research but a major barrier is the protection rightly afforded patients privacy. The question of who owns data is obvious at source, but as its aggregated that ownership becomes a lot less clear. In Preparing Raw Clinical Data for Publication Trials Journal [...]

What Is Clinical Informatics

Informatics is becoming a popular word in health care. In the past, limitations on data sharing have restricted the use of aggregated data in better understanding ways we can improve patient safety, at lower cost. Ethical considerations such as patient confidentiality, and technical constraints such as data storage and analysis software, have worked against the [...]

Technology startups focus on diagnostics

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Remote Care for ICUs – it’s happening already

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Published: January 7, 2010 For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones and the Internet, to connect doctors to patients in far-flung locales. But are doctors ready for this form of technology? Telemedicine [...]

Neural Network Reduces False Positives in CAD

Using an advanced massive-training artificial neural network (MTANN), computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme, radiologists were able to improve their polyp detection rate and reduce the number of false positives in CT colonography (CTC), based on a study presented at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference in Chicago. Kenji Suzuki, PhD, assistant professor [...]

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