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One day after the great show Google delivered with their Google Duplex for Google Assistant, Deloitte and Amazon announce a collaboration for health(care) with the Amazon DOT. The program is called Deloitte Assist has been developed in Australia and translates…
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A pivotal moment in my honest opinion! In a move that underscores the increasingly important role of genomics in medicine, UC San Francisco has appointed Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD, as the first Chief Genomics Officer (CGO) of UCSF Health. His…
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Afgelopen week stond in het teken van Dutch Hacking Health event: op zeven plaatsen in Nederland vonden hackathons plaats om zoveel mogelijke innovatieve ideeën te bedenken om de zorg beter te maken. De beste ideeën hoeven niet groots en meeslepend…
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It’s the stuff disruptors dream of. A group of Seattle doctors and investors had a plan to revolutionize primary care by freeing themselves, and their patients, from the dictates of insurance. They would charge a monthly membership fee for delivering…
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Interesting longread on a “FREE” model of dental care. Last December, we changed dental insurance. The new insurer included in its offering a set of “free” electric toothbrushes, the vibrating “sonic” kind called evocatively “Beam Brush.” One for each of…
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Born during the Estonian EU Presidency of the EU Council in 2017, the Digital Health Society (DHS) movement aims to enable with the support of digital innovative solutions: Better health and wellbeing for EU citizens; Sustainable health and care systems;…
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial intelligence software that can interpret images without a clinician’s involvement, the agency announced Wednesday. — Via https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/11/fda-ai-software-interpret-images/
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Dubai will start to use a body scanner Bodyo made : the AiPod claims to track your health and can be placed in supermarkets, airports, city halls etc. Due to the financial support the government is giving, these scans are free. Curious…
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Facebook had planned to work with hospitals and other medical groups on a proposal to share data about the social networks of its most vulnerable patients. That project is now on pause until Facebook addresses issues around user privacy and…
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Apple is launching a major privacy push, with software updates across all its devices to introduce new data privacy information immediately, with an updated website offering new privacy management tools to follow in May. Thursday’s updates (macOS 10.13.4, iOS11.3 and…
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