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European Commission / Innovations/Medical Updates

Artificial Intelligence: A European Perspective

There is strong global competition on AI among the US, China, and Europe. The US leads for now but China is catching up fast and aims to lead by 2030. For the EU, it is not so much a question of winning or losing a race but of finding the way of embracing the opportunities offered by AI in a way that is human-centred, ethical, secure, and true to our core values. — Read on ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/artificial-intelligence-european-perspective

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December 12, 2018

Funding

San Francisco startup raises $6.75 million for remote health monitoring

The company was founded last year and has developed technology that analyzes data from a combination of clinical and commercial devices to monitor and track the health status of patients at home. — Read on medcitynews.com/2018/12/san-francisco-startup-raises-6-75-million-for-remote-health-monitoring/

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December 11, 2018

Funding

EIT Health Clinical Innovation Fellowships

For the 2019 fellowships program 8 participants will be selected in total, two from each of the represented disciplines – business, design, engineering, and medicine. — Read on clinicalinnovation.se/application/

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December 11, 2018

Innovations/Medical Updates / International Trends

Scientists develop 10-minute universal cancer test | The Guardian

Inexpensive procedure shows whether patient has cancerous cells in the body, but does not reveal where or how serious it is. — Read on amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/04/scientists-develop-10-minute-universal-cancer-test

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December 9, 2018

Innovations/Medical Updates

FDA: Digital Health Policy for Prescription Drug Pricing

New prescription drug-use related software proposed by FDA will help companies and develop an efficient pathway to help increase safety and effectiveness. Read on: www.natlawreview.com/article/significant-fda-digital-health-policy-development-prescription-drug-sponsors

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December 7, 2018

Funding

Bill Gates book recommendation for 2018

5 books Bill Gates loved in 2018 — Read on www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2018

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December 6, 2018

Innovations/Medical Updates

Translated Cochrane evidence

Cochrane evidence is currently translated into 14 languages: Croatian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, and Traditional Chinese. Each language has its own version of cochrane.org; you can view translations by clicking on the languages that appear across the top of each page. — Read on www.cochrane.org/news/translated-cochrane-evidence

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December 6, 2018

Innovations/Medical Updates / International Trends

The White House: Health Data Interoperability in the US

Working session on 4 December at the White House. Focus was Health Data Interoperability with a Security and Privacy breakout. Read on: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-ehealth/2018/12/04/interoperability-day-at-the-white-house-439510 Image source: LinkedIn

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December 5, 2018

Innovations/Medical Updates

Novel method GUESS for Clinical Decision-Support-Systems’ (CDSS) Calibration

GUESS: Projecting Machine Learning Scores to Well-Calibrated Probabilit Estimates for Clinical Decision Making | Bioinformatics | Oxford Published: 29 November 2018 Bioinformatics Read on: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty984

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November 30, 2018

International Trends

Ministry for the Future/Sweden

"Every country should have a Ministry for the Future. It's no good just reacting to things that are happening,” says Kristina Persson Swedish Minister for Strategic Planning. via Twitter — Read on mobile.twitter.com/MedicalGrantsPP/status/1068420843322179586

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November 30, 2018