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UCSF, Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft Azure Utilize Privacy-Preserving Analytics to Accelerate AI in Health Care UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft Azure have formed a collaboration to establish a confidential computing platform with privacy-preserving analytics to accelerate the development and validation of clinical algorithms. The platform will provide a “zero-trust” environment to protect both the intellectual property of an algorithm and the privacy of health care data, while CDHI’s proprietary BeeKeeperAI will provide the workflows to enable more efficient data access, transformation, and orchestration across multiple data providers.   Gaining regulatory approval for clinical artificial...

Polish product nominated for a prestigious award!   An inexpensive, portable medical ventilator called Breath, has been nominated for the A'Design Award in a special "War on Virus" category, being the only Poland-based project to receive a nomination. Mudita, known so far for its work on the first Polish minimalist phone, decided to support the health service during the difficult time of fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. In cooperation with transplantologist Dr. Michał Wszoła, Dr. Dominik Drobiński (an anesthesiologist working at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Warsaw) and other doctors and medical staff...

COVID-19 patients with sleep apnoea could be at additional risk   Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea and poorer outcomes from COVID-19 identified in systematic review of studies by University of Warwick Researchers advise that people with obstructive sleep apnoea should take the necessary precautions to reduce their exposure and follow their treatment plan diligently 5 million people in the UK currently diagnosed with the condition, but up to 85% of people could be undiagnosed Researchers call for better recording and more data on the condition   People who have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea could be at increased risk...

Report from the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing  Hear from the co-chairs and commissioners of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing as they launch their report defining a responsible pathway for the clinical use of heritable human genome editing, should a decision be made by any nation to permit its use. The Commission was formed in the aftermath of the 2018 International Summit on Human Genome Editing held in Hong Kong, where a researcher from China announced that twins had been born following editing he had performed on...

Gender inequalities in the labour market may affect the incidence of COVID-19 The Government of Catalonia has endorsed a UOC research project to analyse the impact of the pandemic with regard to gender and social inequalitiesThe Gender and ICT research group plans to analyse healthcare and socio-economic data to get a picture of the social impact of the disease in Catalonia Government of Catalonia figures show that, although the employment rate for women (50.4%) is nine percentage points lower than that for men, fields of employment could act as a factor that determines the impact of the coronavirus according to gender....