Collaboration - June 8, 2017
Doctrin and Capio Proximity Care to develop AI with KTH and Lund University
Along with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Lund University Doctrin and Capio are developing AI decision support tools helping healthcare professionals to prioritize, diagnose and treat patients. Doctrin develops digital tools to support healthcare providers, and the company has already developed a system that allows for the patient to summarise his or her own […]
MedTech Business - June 1, 2017
Atonomics receives CE marking
Danish medical diagnostic company Atonomics has announced the CE marking of its first commercial product, a Lipids test panel on its Trace platform. Trace, a personal biomarker device, is a disruptive self-testing platform for diagnostics. The Lipids panel determines total cholesterol, HDL (high density lipids), LDL (low density lipids) and triglycerides levels from a finger […]
Collaboration - May 17, 2017
Oncoinvent announces positive results
The results of a collaboration between Oncoinvent and Sciencons researchers have been published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. The collaborators aim to develop a system to generate alpha-particle releasing radioimmunoconjugates that may be simpler and less time-consuming compared with current established methods used in clinical trials. Alpha-particles have the potential to kill tumor […]
MedTech Award - May 12, 2017
Acarix awarded Design award
Swedish/Danish medical device company Acarix has won the Danish Design Award in the category Employment Growth. The award is a recognition of Acarix and its CADScor System’s potential for outstanding international success and employment growth. Since going public on Nasdaq First North Premier in Stockholm in December 2016, the company has continued its plans for […]
Legal Advice - April 28, 2017
EU addresses the use of nanomaterials in medical devices
On April 5, 2017, the European Parliament (EP) approved a regulation on medical devices, as well as a regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices. The EP’s April 5, 2017, press release states that the medical devices regulation is intended to ensure that medical devices are traceable and comply with European Union (EU) safety requirements. […]
Uncategorized - April 4, 2017
The IBM Watson Health Center has been inaugurated in Helsinki
Today opened the IBM Watson Health Center in Helsinki, Finland. The new center will hopefully enable Finnish healthcare to utilize Watson cognitive computing to help doctors improve the health of Finnish citizens, and the center is expected to employ up to 150 consultants in Finland over the next few years. The IBM Watson Health Center will […]
