University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Philips sign memorandum of understanding to bring healthcare innovations to patients faster – Public-private consortium also focuses on training engineers, top researchers and doctors Amsterdam, the Netherlands – University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Philips [...]
Last Chance to Submit ideas to Janssen Connected Care Challenge
I know you join my passion to promote innovation in healthcare. Our team, Janssen Healthcare Innovation, is conducting a healthcare innovation challenge that I thought might be of interest to you. The Janssen Connected Care Challenge is offering $250,000 in awards to entrepreneurs with the best technology-enabled solutions that solve the problem of care connectivity [...]
NIH-funded HIV clinical research sites to join pediatric tuberculosis vaccine study
Several U.S. government-funded HIV/AIDS clinical research sites in Africa will join other collaborators in an ongoing clinical trial testing an investigational tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in infants at risk for TB infection. “We are pleased to be able to tap into our existing HIV/AIDS clinical research infrastructure to help test promising investigational vaccines against TB,” said [...]
ALK today announced the initiation of its landmark GRAZAX® Asthma Prevention (GAP) trial.
GAP will be the largest ever trial to investigate the asthma preventive effect of specific immunotherapy in children (5–12 years old) with allergic grass pollen rhinoconjunctivitis, commonly known as ‘hay fever’. The European, multicentre, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial will follow approximately 600 children with a diagnosis of grass pollen allergic rhinoconjunctivitis over a period of 5 [...]
Sensium at the heart of digital healthcare
Cost and regulatory pressures on the hospital system are intense and set to increase for healthcare providers. Traditional care models in the hospital environment currently rely on manual techniques and “spot-check” observation of patients, which is not only expensive, but also inefficient and prone to error. In outpatient scenarios, the huge escalation in the incidence [...]
Malcolm Gladwell Health care innovations needs Cezanne-like innovators
Keynote speaker and social commentator Malcolm Gladwell (author of Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point) whose gift for articulating fresh ideas has influenced a generation of business leaders, was present at iSOFT‘s Ideaworks for Healthcare 09. Mr Gladwell opened the discussion by addressing whether we are at healthcare’s ‘Tipping Point’ and how to accelerate a [...]
