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The winners of the 2019 Microsoft for Healthcare Innovation Awards were announced at HIMSS19 during the Microsoft Health Forum. Each year, the awards acknowledge health and life sciences organizations and their technology solution partners that are achieving innovation excellence with a Microsoft-based solution. The winners in each of the...   20 February 2019
Survitec has standardised its portfolio of battlefield casualty sustainment modules to reduce the number of fatalities sustained from injuries that are generally considered to have been treatable. Adopting an approach implemented by the U.S. military, Survitec has reconfigured its 29 medical modules, including the FC-1, MC-1, FC-2, FC-4, FC-4WP,...   19 February 2019
Sponsored Content ITEC 2019 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden from 14 to 16 May 2019. Since 1999, Sweden has been leading the VIKING series of exercises alongside participants from the UN, EU, civilian authorities, police, military and representatives from humanitarian organisations. VIKING is a practical extension of efforts...   19 February 2019
Oregonians hurt by a car crash or another traumatic event can mend their injuries with the help of skilled and seasoned U.S. Army healthcare professionals stationed at OHSU, in Portland, Oregon, through a new medical exchange program. OHSU is one of two hospitals nationwide participating in the new Army...   19 February 2019
The American Red Cross launched its new resuscitation education program that meets certification and licensing requirements for healthcare, EMS and other public safety professionals. The program consists of Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses that leverage the latest learning technologies...   18 February 2019
Aetna a CVS Health business, launched Attain, a health experience app designed by Aetna in collaboration with Apple. Through the use of an Apple Watch, the Attain app will provide Aetna members with personalized goals, track their daily activity levels, recommend healthy actions and ultimately reward them for taking...   15 February 2019
In an article on HealthcareITNews, Cathy Lester, Health Outcomes Innovation, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, champions for telemedicine solutions in disaster response efforts.  Lester writes: “Some of the biggest challenges to widespread adoption and use of telemedicine in disaster response are associated with scale and activation – for example, activating medical...   15 February 2019
In an article on KevinMD, Dr. Tista S. Ghosh, MD, MPH, discusses the high suicide rate among physicians and advocates for a solution. Ghosh writes: “Physicians have long had disproportionately high suicide rates. One 2018 literature review found the physician suicide rate to be double the average. Sleep deprivation, stress and...   15 February 2019
Medical Training Magazine is happy to host the MMAST bi-monthly newsletter.   14 February 2019
The Crown Prince’s Centre for Training and Medical Research is the first simulation center in the Kingdom of Bahrain and will serve as a Middle East hub to attract the collaboration of the health and educational institutions around the world. The center provides the high-quality simulation-based medical education by...   14 February 2019
Bahrain News Agency reports that under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, the Crown Prince Centre for Training and Medical Research was opened in early February, marking the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF)’s...   14 February 2019
IBM Watson Health plans to make a ten-year, $50 million investment in research collaborations with two separate academic centers – Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center ­– to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and its...   14 February 2019
Zynx Health announced the launch of Lumynz, a surveillance and analytics SaaS platform that measures the utilization of evidence-based interventions and the impact on financial outcomes. Lumynz provides an interactive, retrospective analysis of provider orders utilization against evidence-based interventions to enhance outcomes. This analysis highlights how the interventions are...   13 February 2019
Change Healthcare announced free clinical data interoperability services for the healthcare industry. The foundational infrastructure services, namely record locator service, identity management and document retrieval solution with protection of patient privacy, support a comprehensive range of use cases. By providing these services, Change Healthcare is paving the way for...   13 February 2019
Cerner has introduced Chart Assist, a new AI-enabled workflow, to join a suite of solutions designed to reduce physician burnout, enhance the clinician’s experience and increase productivity. Cerner’s suite of AI-enabled solutions goes beyond traditional processing and focuses on user efficiency to identify gaps and inconsistencies within the patient...   13 February 2019
University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Nature Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day...   13 February 2019
Leidos and Mayo Clinic announced a strategic collaboration. This collaboration will build on the combined strengths of both organizations to accelerate the research, development and market adoption of tools, technologies and therapeutics to make patients and their families more active participants in their care, ultimately helping them live happier,...   12 February 2019
IBM, Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation and PNC Bank are working together to design and create a blockchain network to improve transparency and interoperability in the healthcare industry. Blockchain is described as a decentralized ledger of all transactions in a network. Its applications in the healthcare space are...   12 February 2019
More than a dozen healthcare AI companies—including Owkin and Arterys— have been named as top startups in CB Insight’s third annual AI 100 list. This is the second time medical imaging AI company Arterys has been named to the list and the first time for Owkin, an AI medical research company. The...   11 February 2019
VRmagic announced the marketing of a new platform generation of its ophthalmic surgery simulator Eyesi Surgical. In close cooperation with the Swiss company Haag-Streit Diagnostics, the German-based manufacturer has developed a digital microscope head and integrated a new virtual high-resolution stereo microscope in the simulator. For training of retina...   11 February 2019