Originally re-scheduled for 29 – 30 September 2020, the event will now take place from 29 – 30 June 2021. The venue for the event, the NEC, Birmingham, UK is unchanged.

The decision to postpone the event comes as a result of the unprecedented times the event industry finds itself in as a result of the global Coronavirus pandemic.

The rescheduling of the show reflects the highest regard Rapid News Group places on the health, safety, and wellbeing of its exhibitors and visitors. It also provides an appropriate solution to the uncertainties surrounding large events in the coming months.

Duncan Wood, CEO of Rapid News Group, said: “Clearly uncertainties around large gatherings and public events are still very much at the forefront of everyone’s minds. By rescheduling Med-Tech Innovation Expo to 2021 we are first and foremost ensuring the safety of our exhibitors and attendees whilst also striving to preserve the success of the event and the return on investment that our exhibitors deserve.

“We are grateful to the NEC for working alongside us to identify a dateline which we believe will work for the great majority of our exhibitors and I must also recognise the support of our key associations who have been steadfast in their support.

“We will continue in earnest with our preparations for the show to ensure it returns in 2021 bigger and better and with renewed vigour as the market recovers from the challenges and difficulties presented by the current climate.”

Visitors to the show in 2021 can look forward to a comprehensive conference programme delivered across three stages, each dedicated to enhancing a visit through the imparting of knowledge, insight and learning.

There will also be a host of interactive features, pavilions and networking events including a meetings programme and learning seminars.

Med-Tech Innovation Expo will be co-located alongside Rapid News Group’s other successful industrial events: Interplas, The UK’s No.1 Plastics show; and TCT 3Sixty, the UK’s event for 3D Printing & Additive Intelligence.

Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2021 will take place from 29 – 30 June 2021 in Hall 2 of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, UK. Originally re-scheduled for 29 – 30 September 2020, the event will now take place from 29 – 30 June 2021. The venue for the event, the NEC, Birmingham, UK is unchanged.

The decision to postpone the event comes as a result of the unprecedented times the event industry finds itself in as a result of the global Coronavirus pandemic.

The rescheduling of the show reflects the highest regard Rapid News Group places on the health, safety, and wellbeing of its exhibitors and visitors. It also provides an appropriate solution to the uncertainties surrounding large events in the coming months.

Duncan Wood, CEO of Rapid News Group, said: “Clearly uncertainties around large gatherings and public events are still very much at the forefront of everyone’s minds. By rescheduling Med-Tech Innovation Expo to 2021 we are first and foremost ensuring the safety of our exhibitors and attendees whilst also striving to preserve the success of the event and the return on investment that our exhibitors deserve.

“We are grateful to the NEC for working alongside us to identify a dateline which we believe will work for the great majority of our exhibitors and I must also recognise the support of our key associations who have been steadfast in their support.

“We will continue in earnest with our preparations for the show to ensure it returns in 2021 bigger and better and with renewed vigour as the market recovers from the challenges and difficulties presented by the current climate.”

Visitors to the show in 2021 can look forward to a comprehensive conference programme delivered across three stages, each dedicated to enhancing a visit through the imparting of knowledge, insight and learning.

There will also be a host of interactive features, pavilions and networking events including a meetings programme and learning seminars.

Med-Tech Innovation Expo will be co-located alongside Rapid News Group’s other successful industrial events: Interplas, The UK’s No.1 Plastics show; and TCT 3Sixty, the UK’s event for 3D Printing & Additive Intelligence.

Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2021 will take place from 29 – 30 June 2021 in Hall 2 of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, UK.

Patientco, a next-generation patient payment technology company, announced that its Interactive Voice Response (IVR) integration is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace and has been selected by Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care.

As providers have cited a surge in patient calls resulting from COVID-19 and billing concerns, Baptist Memorial wanted to lift the burden from its revenue cycle management (RCM) team while also improving patient service and the overall experience.

“We wanted to give our patients the flexibility of payment by telephone in addition to our existing web and mobile options. All of these options are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Ron Wachsman, Vice President and Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care. “In addition to improving service to our patients, the IVR solution will also alleviate some of the burden on the RCM team when posting and reconciling payments.”

Epic App Orchard Integration Benefits

With Patientco’s IVR integration, patients can easily complete a payment via phone at any time, regardless of their healthcare provider’s business hours. Patients can pay using all major credit, debit and HSA or FSA cards. The integration also supports multiple languages, multiple bill payments, as well as full and partial payment workflows, ensuring a convenient, flexible experience for all patients.

For health systems, Patientco’s IVR integration automates complex patient interactions and increases self-service patient payments with a payment conversion rate of 78%. Health systems benefit from automated real-time payment posting into Epic and a single deposit that reconciles daily with their system. Since payments are automatically tokenized and processed through Patientco’s certified PCI Level 1 payments infrastructure and directly posted into Epic, health systems reduce their PCI scope.

“Since 2014, Patientco has focused on delivering proven payment integrations that ensure health systems utilize their existing technology to its full potential,” said Sean Joyce, Chief Technology Officer at Patientco. “Our solutions in App Orchard make it easy for clients to offer their patients convenient, self-service payment options and empower RCM teams to focus on the most complex patient support calls while automating the rest.”

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded a contract with Google Cloud to prototype an AI-enabled digital pathology solution at select DoD facilities. The project includes the delivery of augmented reality microscopes to DoD’s medical facilities and access to artificial intelligence (AI) models that can help military doctors with cancer detection tasks on multiple disease areas. The early access to the digital pathology platform is for research use only. DIU is the organization exclusively focused within the Department of Defense (DoD) on scaling commercial technology across the DoD.

DIU-Google Cloud Project

The goal of the DIU-Google Cloud project is to help improve the accuracy of diagnoses, assisting physicians who face an overwhelming volume of data when making diagnostic and treatment decisions–and helping lower overall healthcare costs. Working with DIU, Google Cloud will prototype the delivery of an augmented reality microscope that overlays AI-based information for doctors, providing pathology-based cancer detection tools at the point-of-care. Google’s approach will leverage TensorFlow, an open-source framework to help deliver machine-learning models as well as the Google Cloud Healthcare API for data ingestion and de-identification to maximize patient privacy.

Rollout Schedule

The initial rollout will take place at select Defense Health Agency treatment facilities and Veteran’s Affairs hospitals in the United States, with future plans to expand across the broader U.S. Military Health System. The AI-based models used to assist doctors as part of the prototype were developed from public and private datasets that were de-identified to remove personal health information and any personally identifiable information. All patient diagnostic data will solely be managed by the individual hospital or provider. Carahsoft Technology, as Google Cloud’s government distributor, played a key role in facilitating this work.

“To effectively treat cancer, speed and accuracy are critical,” said Mike Daniels, vice president, Global Public Sector, Google Cloud. “We are partnering with DIU to provide our machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to help frontline healthcare practitioners learn about capabilities that can improve the lives of our military men and women and their families.”

Carahsoft Technology, as Google Cloud’s government distributor, played a key role in facilitating this work.

The DoD’s Joint AI Center (JAIC) is providing funding for the project and technical expertise. The capabilities will also help support the JAIC’s warfighter health AI product line that aims to improve the diagnostic capability of military medicine.

Why It Matters

The Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety recently reported that within the United States, an estimated 5% of outpatient diagnoses are conducted in error. This translates to the misdiagnosis of 12 million patients each year. At the same time, the Defense Health Agency spends approximately $1.7 billion of its annual budget on cancer research, and that figure continues to grow.

This is the second contract that Google has been awarded by DIU in the past three months. In May, the two organizations announced an effort to detect, protect against, and respond to cyber threats globally.

Analyzing digital health records of thousands of patients that have been admitted to hospitals around the country with coronavirus has led to the development of technology to predict the risk of death for patients with the virus.

Researchers at Oklahoma State University for Health Systems Innovation (CHSI) in both Stillwater and Tulsa are using the digital health data to build predictive models of disease risk that could improve treatment and outcomes for the patients.

“There is an urgent need to determine which COVID patients are at highest risk for bad clinical outcomes as early as possible so that plans and actions can be made to save more lives,” said Dr. Zhuqi Miao, the health data science program manager with CHSI. “With the rise in reported COVID cases in the U.S., there is no time better than right now to have a tool to predict which patients are most at risk as soon as possible.”

Meghan Sealey, an OSU statistics doctoral student, along with Miao, has analyzed data of 18,742 patients that were hospitalized by the virus from the Cerner Covid-19 data cohort, a collection of de-identified, HIPPA-compliant hospital and clinic records donated to CHSI.

Researchers at CHSI have created two models of potential mortality risk, one is based on patient data at the time of admission using demographic and historical medical conditions, and the second at the end of the first day of hospitalization using demographics, procedures, medications and known conditions.

“The models identified a similar set of medical conditions suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the essential risk factors for death, such as history of diabetes, respiratory disorders and hypertension, and onset of respiratory or kidney failures, but we also found some unique ones,” Miao said.

The first CHSI model can predict mortality for nearly 70 percent of patients, while the second is accurate for nearly 75 percent of patients, Miao said.

Connected care company Masimo has landed and expanded FDA clearance for its O3 Regional Oximeter, for both somatic applications and monitoring changes in the cerebral hemoglobin.

It specifically monitors somatic tissue oxygenation saturation, and can detect changes in a patient’s hemoglobin, oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin.

According to the company, its tool differs from peripheral pulse oximetry, because it can capture information about a “local issue’s hemoglobin oxygen saturation, both in cerebral and somatic applications.”

The new tool can be integrated with Masimo’s SedLine brain function monitor or its Root patient monitoring and connectivity platform.

WHY IT MATTERS

The company is pitching this tool as a way for medical professional to monitor cerebral or somatic tissue levels. This tool could be used is the detection of early signs of renal dysfunction, as one example, according to the company.

“O3’s expanded indication as a monitor of the oxygenation and deoxygenation components of cerebral tissue, along with the oxygen saturation of somatic tissue, represents an important milestone in helping clinicians and researchers shed additional light on how the body utilizes oxygen and in uncovering organ hypoxemia,” Joe Kiani, founder and CEO of Masimo, said in a statement.

THE LARGER TREND

Masimo has a long history in the connected health space. In recent news the company inked a deal with the NBA in July which will require all league members to measure their oxygen saturation, pulse and respiration rate on a daily basis using the company’s MightySat finger pulse oximeter.

That wasn’t the company’s only news this summer. In June it announced a new device aimed at reducing the symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal, called Bridge.

Water is something that cannot be left behind when discussing of a healthy lifestyle. We all know very well that water is a vital element not only for flora and fauna but also for humans. Meanwhile, when the body lacks water, side effects such as poorer muscle tone, indigestion, a weakened nervous system and an increased risk of vascular and cardiovascular disease can begin to occur. Since such a perspective doesn’t really sound charming, the question arises – how much water should you drink a day to be healthy?

Doctors’ recommendations

When it comes to the amount of water you need to drink every day, doctors’ recommendations vary. It is generally stated that eight glasses of water a day are necessary to maintain one’s vital functions. Other experts state that the amount of water you need to drink per day can be calculated based on your height. According to them, 1 cm tall requires 10 ml of water. This means that if your height is 170 cm, you should drink 1.7 liters of water a day.

You can also find a variety of detailed calculations that can provide you with the information of water amount you need to drink per day, depending on your body mass index, physical activity and its‘ intensity, stress level at work and so on.

Water uptake with food

Some people say they get enough water with food. This is only partly true. In fact, vegetables and fruits make up about 90% of water, meat and bread about 50%. However, even having proper breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as snacking on fruits or vegetables between meals, the body will not get enough water to meet the basic needs. Food in the diet of a healthy person usually provides about 20 percent of the water he or she has to drink per day in order to maintain good health. However, according to WaterOnTop.com research, there are some foods whose water content percentage is above 90% or even 95%. A few examples: cucumber – 96% of water content, iceberg lettuce – 96%, radishes – 95%, watermelon – 92%. These and other similar foods will help you stay hydrated all day long if you will integrate them into your nutrition.

Do not worry to consume too much water

Usually people drinks water only when they feel thirsty. However, this is not an example to follow. When a person feels thirsty, his body is already short of about one liter of water. It’s like a red light in the car dashboard that indicates you should go to a service center as soon as possible. Therefore, it is best to drink water constantly without waiting to feel thirsty.

In principle, it is not very important to adhere strictly to a norm that is calculated to be sufficient for your body. For example, you need to use more water on a hot summer day or during sports. In other words, the amount of water needs to be adjusted according to the situation in certain cases.

Also, don’t be afraid to consume too much water. Excess water is successfully eliminated by the body and it has no side effects on the body.

Not just quantity but also quality.

It should be mentioned that it is incredibly significant not only to drink the body’s daily required amount of water but also to ensure that the water is of high quality. After all, if you drink contaminated water that contains too many nitrites, nitrates, other toxic compounds, bacteria or chemicals, you will definitely have health problems soon. In other words, drinking hazardous water you will not strengthen your body but on the contrary, it will make you sick.

It is important to note that harmful substances in water may not change the taste, smell or color of the water. Therefore, it is possible that you are drinking harmful water without knowing it. Therefore, it is especially important to make sure that the water you use every day is of high quality and absolutely clean.

Choosing high quality water

To ensure that you and your family drink quality water, you can choose between the two the most reliable methods. You can drink either distilled water or use water filtered with Reverse Osmosis systems. These are the most popular choices among people who care about the quality of their drinking water for daily use. However, the question “Which one of these two options would be better?” is difficult to answer as everyone chooses according to their own and family’s needs.

There are two types Reverse Osmosis water systems: under sink and countertop. The first one has superiority because of its speed and large amount of water treated, the second one because of its convenience, compactness and easy transporting. It can be mentioned that the Reverse Osmosis filter is often chosen by those for whom distilled water looks a bit flat and tasteless. While the water filtered by this system retains its flavor. However, this water is not as pure as that distilled.

Whichever of these options you choose, you can be sure that you are drinking water that allows you and your beloved ones to maintain excellent physical and emotional health.