Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating medical imaging, but its integration into clinical practice will depend on the capacity of AI technology to facilitate workflow. How far has radiology advanced on this path? Insights asked a leading expert to find out. — Read on www.healthcareitnews.com/news/radiology-beyond-machine
Hackathon is a new way of outcomes-oriented working of health innovators and aims for an acquisition of knowledge, which is expected to bring forward new ideas. During Hackathon 2018 of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on October 2-5 2018 in Bad Gastein (Austria) 35 participants from different backgrounds from 18 countries from all over Europe worked in 7 teams on an innovative solution to a well-defined problem: “How to prevent injuries/death caused by alcohol misuse in the young population?” within 36 hours. The Hackathon organizers were the European Health Forum Gastein and European Institute of Innovation…
I'm all for development of superior machine intelligence. But programming AI with mammalian ideas and contemporary philosophies may lead to chaos. — Read on www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-transhumanist-philosopher/201409/the-three-laws-transhumanism-and-artificial-intelligence
UEF secures funding for research on new personalised therapies | Science|Business — Read on sciencebusiness.net/network-news/uef-secures-funding-research-new-personalised-therapies
Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations. Nature 2018 ISSN 1476-4687(online) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0278-9
Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists and white men. — Read on mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the-medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great-ideas.html
The 11. Edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11) of the World Health Organization (WHO): All World Health Organization Member States are expected to use the most current version of the ICD for reporting death and illness (according to an international treaty, the ‘WHO Nomenclature Regulations’, adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1967). ICD–10 has been translated into 43 languages, and ICD–11 has been available in all 6 official languages since its publication (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic). ICD-11 — Read on icd.who.int/
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC ADVANCED GRANT Call identifier: ERC-2018-ADG Publication date: 17 May 2018 Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Size of ERC Advanced Grants Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 500 000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum award is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter…
Constituting 40% of all public and philanthropic health research spending globally, the 10 largest funding organizations together funded research for $37.1 billion. What they fund and how they distribute their funds was analysed in 2016. Read on: https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-015-0074-z
New Horizon trends and perspectives. Science Europe commented the new Horizon Programme for 2021-2027 in the document Science Europe reaction. The new pillars of the Programm were described and compared with the Horizon Programm 2020. Read on: www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180608-SE_Horizon_Europe_Reaction.pdf