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San Diego-based telecommunications giant Qualcomm announced this past week that it had acquired HealthyCircles , a coordinated care platform that connects healthcare professionals with patients and their families. This is the latest in a series of partnerships, investments, and acquisitions that Qualcomm has made over the past few years, including an early investment in AliveCor before the mHealth Summit in December 2011 as well as a partnership with WebMD announced a few weeks ago. All of this is linked to Qualcomm’s flagship medical product, their 2Net Platform which they describe as a...

Reliable health information is reaching a far wider audience now, but how can mental health professionals decide what to choose? In the last couple of years, we have seen many new, more democratic and engaging ways of delivering reliable health information to hard-pressed mental health professionals. Specialist blogs, developed by people who understand the information needs of health professionals, as well as the subtle complexities of the field, are engaging a wide audience and generating debate. In the late 1990s I helped set up an Oxford University educational programme for mental health professionals...

Here at Medgadget , we have previously covered efforts to crowdsource ideas for developing medical technology and innovation. We have seen programs that crowdsource retinal connectome mapping and protein folding . Now, as reported in a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology , a unique combination of leaders from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, and London Business School have demonstrated that a crowdsourcing platform discovered in the commercial sector can solve a complex immunological problem quicker that traditional biology algorithms, such as NIH’s BLAST , at a fraction...

Join us on Friday 19 April to discuss the role of academic health science networks Academic health science networks are a new tier of organisations to improve the identification, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS - and create wealth for the UK economy. Their core functions include informatics, service improvement, procurement and engaging the NHS with research. Join us for a live discussion on Friday 19 April. Some of the questions we will be covering include: • What will AHSNs do? • What impact can they make on the research and innovation agenda? • How they will work with others involved...

Network science, the science examining the structure of relationships between social entities, is a complex but burgeoning field in healthcare. Based on research from pioneers like Nicholas Christakis , data from network studies might inform important questions like “What communities are likely to adhere to a particular medication?” and “How does one person quitting smoking affect others’ decisions to quit in his/her community?” Institutions ranging from big pharma to hospitals are using network science to learn about important trends relevant to their industry. However...

Having access to a myriad of imaging modalities has helped physicians diagnose and treat all sorts of diseases, but new technologies that offer novel ways to fuse data foreshadow futuristic capabilities at the doctor’s office. Here’s an example from Microsoft of a system that brings together live video and previously taken brain scans to superimpose volumetric data onto a two dimensional scene. Here’s video from IEEE Spectrum at the 13th annual Microsoft TechFest demonstrating the technology:   Read More Read More...