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AIXR Insights Live: On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of WebXR

AIXR Insights Live: On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of WebXR

Save the date: August 24, 7:00 pm In the industry of immersive technologies, WebXR is a relatively new but fast-growing technology. Join AIXR - The Academy of International Extended Reality Insights Live Webinar and let a panel of experts guide you through…

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Did you already register for your ticket to the #BHHSummit 2021 by Barcelona Health Hub?

Did you already register for your ticket to the #BHHSummit 2021 by Barcelona Health Hub?

#BHHSummit is the annual event of Barcelona Health Hub bringing together forward thinking innovators from across the world. A unique opportunity to discuss relevant and timely topics, showcase technological solutions and create synergies between the different actors through powerful networking. This year,…

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Increased Cyberattacks On Healthcare Institutions Shows The Need For Greater Cybersecurity

Increased Cyberattacks On Healthcare Institutions Shows The Need For Greater Cybersecurity

While the pandemic brought about inspiring displays of solidarity and compassion, as with any tragedy, bad actors took advantage of the situation for personal gain. While hospital workers set up field hospitals in parking lots and clinicians risked their health to combat the frightening virus, hackers, ransomware gangs, and financial scammers doubled down on their mission to obtain valuable patient data. The number of hacking incidents reported in healthcare climbed for the fifth straight year in 2020, according to my company's report, jumping 42% in 2020. Hacking incidents comprised more than half of all last year's patient data breaches — 62% — up from 2019. According to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), healthcare hacking attacks were particularly brutal in 2020, with data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showing "that almost every month last year more than 1 million people were affected by data breaches at health-care organizations." These unsettling figures are good indicators of how hackers targeted healthcare organizations amid the pandemic, but given how Covid-19 overwhelmed healthcare organizations' limited resources, a worrisome volume of data breaches could still have yet to be detected.

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 LIFE SCIENCE ACROSS THE ØRESUND – a survey of transregional commuters, actors, research and investments

LIFE SCIENCE ACROSS THE ØRESUND – a survey of transregional commuters, actors, research and investments

GREATER COPENHAGEN LIFE SCIENCE ANALYSIS INITIATIVE is an EU-project aimed at increasing knowledge about the region’s life science cluster. The focus is on the demand for labourers, future expertise needs, and more. The project has received funding through the EU-programme…

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What 400 Flawed Healthcare AI Models Can Teach Us

What 400 Flawed Healthcare AI Models Can Teach Us

The hundreds of flaws in AI models built to help tackle COVID-19 could be viewed merely as a consequence of fast-moving efforts to stop a crisis. Yet, academics calling out these flaws want you to hear their alarm. Their voices are precisely what more business leaders and policymakers need to hear as the U.S. increasingly adopts AI for medical and commercial use.

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Institute of Health & Social Care Management popular 20 Min Social Series Archive is now available for FREE!

Institute of Health & Social Care Management popular 20 Min Social Series Archive is now available for FREE!

Guests discuss workforce, recruitment, care home management, dementia & social care experiences. Want to listen to IHSCM latest 20 Min Socials? Join today.

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Help Overseas Student Study Dementia Research

Help Overseas Student Study Dementia Research

Technology allows many of us great independence. This overseas student hopes to use medical innovation to improve the lives of #dementia patients. Invest in this #postgraduate research opportunity here.

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To Fix Healthcare After Covid-19, Doctors Must Have The Courage To Change

To Fix Healthcare After Covid-19, Doctors Must Have The Courage To Change

Long before doctors were fighting the coronavirus, their professional ancestors were risking their lives to battle the Black Death. Throughout history, physicians have demonstrated courage: the ability to act regardless of the risks or fear involved. Consider the act of sawing off a gangrenous limb or performing brain surgery or treating a disease like Ebola, which kills as many as 90% of the people it infects. In these harrowing situations, courage alone isn’t enough. Doctors must also—to a certain extent—deny objective reality. They must repress the very existence of fear, detach themselves from their emotions, admit no weaknesses, deny all pain, show a single-minded attentiveness to the task at hand and snuff out any feelings that try to escape in the process. Until recently, no one ever questioned whether such extreme denial was mentally healthy. Doctors just assumed it was necessary. Courage and denial remain cultural imperatives in the profession today. These traits are taught to every medical student and hardwired into every doctor. And they come with some unfortunate, and tragic, side effects. I remember a talented doctor who returned to work the day after she, herself, received a terminal diagnosis. None of her colleagues, friends or patients were aware of her illness until after she died. In medical culture, this kind of emotional detachment is the rule, not the exception. As a nation, we owe a debt of gratitude for the courage and denial of our doctors. Without their bravery and sacrifices over the past year and a half, Covid-19 would have killed many more of our friends and loved ones.

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Registration is now open for the 2021 Open Meeting of UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network

Registration is now open for the 2021 Open Meeting of UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network, which will take place as a hybrid event on October 20th. Join them in-person at the Royal College of Physicians or online as a…

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Extended Reality In Healthcare: 3 Reasons The Industry Must Get Ready For AR And VR

Extended Reality In Healthcare: 3 Reasons The Industry Must Get Ready For AR And VR

There is huge potential to apply extended reality (XR) technologies – namely, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) – to healthcare. From self-care and wellbeing to treatment and even surgical procedures, XR is already helping to improve many aspects of healthcare. Sure, it’s early days, but the transformation is underway. And that means the healthcare industry must get ready.

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FREE Vaccine Development Services for SMEs.

FREE Vaccine Development Services for SMEs.

TRANSVAC2 project offers high-quality technical services to support the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for both human and animal use. They cover the entire R&D pipeline from different expression systems and pre-clinical GLP production of your antigen to clinical…

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Putting CARE Back In Healthcare

Vince Tien is the co-founder and CEO of 360 Clinic, a multi-specialty medical group focused on telehealth services.

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