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Events

Med-e-Tel 2017 Call for Abstracts
5th - 7th April, 2017 | Luxembourg
See the current telemedicine, telehealth and med m/eHealth developments at this event in Luxembourg.

ConhIT Connecting Healthcare IT
25th - 27th April, 2017 | Berlin, Germany
Are you interested in the latest advances in Mobile Health, IT Solutions for medical practices and Telemedicine Solutions?

GIANT Health Event 2017
17th - 19th October, 2017 | London, UK
ONLY 100 EARLY BIRD TICKETS will be released for GIANT 2017 - Click here to claim your ticket


Here are some highlights from GIANT 2016: 

A more efficient clinical trial process

Software that will lead to a more efficient clinical trial process

The future of Digital Health

What the future holds for Digital Health

Fundraising

Oxford Nanopore Technologies - £100m
MedCity
The Telegraph

Sense Biodetection Limited - £508k
Mercia
Sense-bio

IFM Therapeutics - £27m / £20.70
Business Wire
Business Wire

CRISPR Therapeutics - $38m / £38.10
whogotfunded
CRISPR

Cambridge Medical Robotics Ltd - $20.3m / £15.57
Mercia
CMED Robotics

Health-Tech Community

Heroes of Health-Tech Innovation
Shafi Ahmed PhD FRCS, Co-founder of Virtual Medics & Medical Realities

Shafi Ahmed is a Consultant Surgeon, RCS council member, Associate Dean, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Futurist, Innovator / Tech entrepreneur. In 2014, he performed the world's first live-stream of an operation using Google Glass, watched live by 13000 students around the world. A few days ago UK Teaching Surgeon Dr Ahmed live-streamed an operation using Snapchat spectacles. See more on this story here. Follow Shafi on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/ShafiAhmed5

Quealth
Quealth has completed a clinical validation study of the dementia risk assessment tool within its app. Quealth guides users through lifestyle modification behaviors to reduce the risk of five major non-communicable but sometimes preventable diseases: type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, COPD, dementia and six forms of cancer.
Twitter: @Quealth
Website: http://www.quealth.co/

Recruitment

Salus Digital has an opening for:
'Clinical Informatics Research IT Support and Systems Engineer' in London.

Salary Details: £40,523 to £48,327 per annum

'Big datasets and large-scale analytics are increasingly fundamental across a range of research disciplines. The post holder will be responsible for providing research IT support to BRC-MH scientists.'

Click here to find more about this opportunity.

See http://salusdigital.net/ and https://twitter.com/salusdigital 

Do you have a job vacancy you'd like submitted, or a piece of interesting news you'd like added to the next newsletter?

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Best wishes,
 

Barry Shrier
Founder - The GIANT Health Event and The Health-Tech Innovation LABS
+44 7776 132 517
@Barry_HealthTec