Helen Sydney Adams

Nov 20, 2024 | healthcare-digital.com | Helen Sydney Adams

NTT Corporation and Olympus Corporation have announced the establishment of a cloud endoscopy system, utilising IOWN APN technology, following a joint experiment initiated in March. This pioneering system processes endoscopic videos in the cloud and has demonstrated the ability of APN technology to address network challenges associated with cloud endoscopy. The collaboration aims to enhance performance and functionality in endoscopy systems, ultimately improving access to advanced medical care.

Nov 20, 2024 | healthcare-digital.com | Helen Sydney Adams

The European pharmacutical sector is still reeling from the pandemic, the energy crisis and various geopolitical conflicts - but this has not stopped progress. In one new move, Richter BioLogics GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary of the Gedeon Richter Plc, has inaugurated a state-of-the-art cGMP facility in Bovenau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Nov 19, 2024 | healthcare-digital.com | Helen Sydney Adams

GE HealthCare has published data from a two-phase pilot study conducted with Cleveland Clinic, in Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. The data examines the performance of the wireless and wearable Portrait™ Mobile monitoring solution, in the post-surgical ward environment. Alarm rates from critical care and cardiac telemetry units total hundreds per bed per day, leaving healthcare systems concerned with alarm management in lower acuity settings.

Nov 19, 2024 | healthcare-digital.com | Helen Sydney Adams

Myopia - short sightedness - could affect more than half of teenagers in the world by 2050, according to research published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. Research involved over five million children and teenagers from 50 countries across all six continents, which revealed that short-sightedness has tripled from 1990 to 2023. The researchers pointed to the COVID-19 lockdowns as one cause for the rise, when children were given more screen time.

Oct 28, 2024 | healthcare-digital.com | Helen Sydney Adams

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