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uMed Partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to Support Wide-scale Study Exploring Link Between Smell Loss and Parkinson’s – Digital Health Technology News

  • September 28, 2023
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uMed partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to run its smell test study in the UK as part of a global programme to explore the link between smell loss and Parkinson’s disease uMed will enroll eligible patients from over 500 primary care group providers and facilitate the distribution of 15,000 scratch-and-sniff home tests Its […]

Jeep’s first fully electric SUV racks up over 40,000 orders

  • September 28, 2023
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Jeep’s first 100% electric SUV, the Jeep Avenger, is creating a buzz in Europe. The Avenger has received over 40,000 orders since launching, as momentum picks up into the second half of the year. Orders for Jeep’s first electric SUV are picking up The rugged SUV maker gave us a glimpse into its future electric […]

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Multi-year contract to deliver Nervecentre tech as Ireland’s sole acute floor information system – htn

  • September 28, 2023
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Ireland’s Health Service Executive has awarded a multi-year contract to Nervecentre’s partner Cardiac Services to deliver Nervecentre cloud-based software as Ireland’s sole country-wide acute floor information system (AFIS), with implementation to be phased across 40 hospitals. Nervecentre describes the vision of AFIS as providing “a single point of access to unscheduled and emergency care services that […]

World-first robotic liver transplant breakthrough

  • September 28, 2023
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The world’s first fully robotic liver transplant – a procedure that enables quicker recovery times and lower infection rates – has taken place. The milestone, involving a 66-year-old Saudi male with non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), represents further progress in the advancement of minimally invasive transplant surgery. Traditional liver transplantation, while life-saving, often involves […]

Tesla enters critical trial over fatal Autopilot crash

  • September 28, 2023
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Tesla is going into a critical trial today over a death that reportedly happened in an Autopilot crash. The result of the trial could have an impact on the legal outcomes of other similar incidents. Starting today, the trial is taking place in California’s Riverside County Superior Court over a civil lawsuit brought by Micah […]

Here’s how solar and wind kept the Texas grid online in 2023’s brutal summer heat

  • September 28, 2023
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Utility-scale solar and wind kept the Texas grid online during 2023’s record-breaking summer heat, according to IEEFA – here’s how it breaks down. Texas is a solar powerhouse Researchers from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) crunched data from ERCOT, which operates the Texas grid. The researchers found that from June 15 […]

With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

  • September 28, 2023
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Play Video 27:10 Star is a Black midwife who helps Black women give birth in the comfort of their homes, in the state of Illinois. She is part of a long-established African-American tradition of home-birth midwifery, which is currently in a legal gray area across a number of US states, with midwives unable to obtain […]

Technology may be the missing puzzle piece to increasing access to home care services

  • September 28, 2023
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Dan Isterling, Managing Director of Premier Community, has first-hand experience of seeing the value of digital in supporting people in their homes. After partnering with the Access Group, Premier Community is paving the way in digitising the homecare sector to better support both their staff and service users.   Premier Community is an award-winning second-generation […]