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Head of Healthcare Innovation

Location:	Dublin, Ireland
Job Type:	Full-Time
Employer:	Roche

Roche in Ireland offers you a unique and exciting opportunity to provide strategic leadership and to shape the new role of Head of Healthcare Innovation Skill Centre. As the Head of Healthcare Innovation you are an enthusiastic advocate of your area of expertise and are responsible for the upskilling of the people in your Skill Centre through development and coaching.

IMS MAXIMS Forms e-Prescribing Partnership with Better by Marand

IMS MAXIMS has formed a partnership with Better by Marand to become a reseller for its e-prescribing system, OPENeP. The move gives NHS trusts that want to progress their digital maturity the option to buy an e-prescribing system that integrates seamlessly with the MAXIMS software suite.

From One Brain Scan, more Information for Medical Artificial Intelligence

MIT researchers have devised a novel method to glean more information from images used to train machine-learning models, including those that can analyze medical scans to help diagnose and treat brain conditions. An active new area in medicine involves training deep-learning models to detect structural patterns in brain scans associated with neurological diseases and disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

Your Circle of Friends, not Your Fitbit, is more Predictive of Your Health

Wearable fitness trackers have made it all too easy for us to make assumptions about our health. We may look to our heart rate to determine whether we really felt the stress of that presentation at work this morning, or think ourselves healthier based on the number of steps we've taken by the end of the day.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Delivered by Telemedicine is Effective for Insomnia

Preliminary findings from two analyses of an ongoing study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia delivered by telemedicine is as effective as face-to-face delivery. Results of a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial show that both delivery methods were equally effective at improving sleep outcomes measured by sleep diaries, reducing self-reported sleep latency and wake after sleep onset while increasing total sleep time and sleep efficiency.

Regionalisation is No Silver Bullet for NHS Diagnostic Pressures - but it Must Not Fail

Opinion Article by Richard Turner, Executive Director, Change Healthcare
In the late 1990s, radiology was a very different place. Still analogue, departments relied on light boxes, and professionals performedmore specific site-based roles. At the time, I worked in the radiology department of a London hospital, and started a change programme with my hospital colleagues to shake up roles.

People with Mobility Issues Set to Benefit from Wearable Devices

The lives of thousands of people with mobility issues could be transformed thanks to ground-breaking research by scientists at the University of Bristol. The FREEHAB project will develop soft, wearable rehabilitative devices with a view to helping elderly and disabled people walk and move from sitting to a standing position in comfort and safety.