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INNOVATIONS
ISSN 2513-8634 Vol 1.1 • January 2017 • emjreviews.com
INSIDE
Review of
MEDICA 2016
Düsseldorf, Germany
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL BOARD...................................................................................................................................... 4
CONGRESS REVIEW.................................................................................................................................... 12
• Review of MEDICA 2016, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, 14th–17th November 2016
INTERVIEWS WITH EMJ INNOVATIONS EDITORIAL BOARD............................................................ 26
FEATURES
• REVOLUTIONISING HEALTHCARE BY EMPOWERING PATIENTS TO INNOVATE................... 31
Helena Canhão et al.
• NEW MODELS OF HEALTH...........
INNOVATIONS ISSN 2513-8634
CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD.......................
INNOVATIONS • SELF-MANAGEMENT IN EPILEPSY CARE:
Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Dr Mike Bewick
Innovations Mr Thomas Keen, Mobile Health Res
INNOVATIONS 1.1 JANUARY 2017 Director Spencer G
Welcome Hello and welcome to the inaugural edi
Introducing MitraClip NT Greater Precision, Great
Foreword
Have you read the European Medical Journal?
s of European Medical Journal. Our flagship jour
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INNOVATIONS • January 2017
INNOVATIONS • January 2017
Congress Highlights Digitisation and
Digital Initiatives to Improve Patient Care Discu
Several digital devices to assist in
Physicians will not become redundant in future, t
This method aims to be faster and more eff
device to assess its efficacy as an early
Currently little is known about the interaction b
the team studied the vitality and mitochondrial m
“The protein envelope and fimbria that are u
Failure to train personnel can have very ne
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Kinan Muhammed Wellcome Trust Clinical Research
tracking, accelerometry, and decision-makin
and allowed me to build and publish my work in n
undertaking trials in registries. Trials in regis
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REVOLUTIONISING HEALTHCARE BY EMPOWERING PATIEN
www.patient-innovation.com has >500 solutions,
In a study of user innovation in Finland, only 19
Rich opportunities and real risks. J Partici
NEW MODELS OF HEALTH *Chris Whittle NHS Englan
through the alignment of innovation, training and
rise in expectation of appointment immediacy
asked a few simple questions and sent on their wa
EUROPEAN MEDICAL JOURNAL provides influential arti
EDITOR’S PICK For my first Editor’s P
of patient involvement in the care process; and i
emergence of peer-to-peer support networks allows
and the support from the community make the produ
of online health information, poor health and/or
context, special attention should also be paid to
35. Lester J et al. Learning from e-patients at M
PERSONALISED MEDICINE WITH COMPANION DIA
and for regulatory approvals and compliance.
Table 1: Companion diagnostic devices c
Table 1 continued. Device trade name Device t
Table 2: Exemplar regulatory guidance documents.
agencies recognise the benefit of personalise
Diagnostics and Corresponding Therape
SELF-MANAGEMENT IN EPILEPSY CARE: BACKGROUND,
are relatively labour and time-intensive, requiri
Epilepsy self-management is formally defined as: ‘
focussed on improving self-management. One of
of a programme, then suffers significant attrition
NEW DIGITAL APPROACHES TO SELF-MANAGEMENT The d
14. Laybourne AH et al. Self-management for peo
THE PREVALENCE OF ITEM CONSTRUCTION FLAWS IN MED
MCQs. As a result, items that are authored by tea
faculty staff who taught in each course and were
The MS2 data set consisted of 20 exams, with each
significantly benefit from construction errors such
without generating hypothetical distractors t
LIGHT SHEET FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY COMBINED
A B C Figure 1: A schematic description of a co
UltraMicroscope II, six filters can be incorporate
advantage of the solvent-dependent shrinkage
The CLARITY protocol, developed by the group led
LIGHT SHEET FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY APPLICATIONS
ex vivo imaging is possible. By solely app
31. Tomer R et al. Advanced CLARITY for rapid a
VIRTUAL REALITY ASSISTED ANAESTHESIA DURING
there are two types of anaesthesia that may be ad
Table 1 continued. Author Description Met
and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) in Mexico
With the patient lying on their left side decubit
Statistical Analysis For the assessment of differ
evolving research and development on su
40. Stinson JN et al. Development and Usabilit
MICROBIOME: THE MISSING LINK IN NEUROPSYCHIATRI
metabolites (neurotrophins and antigens) that
because of its antidepressant effect.38 Prob
Interestingly, this technique was forgotten over
of neuropsychiatric disorders. Additionally,
Acad Sci USA. 2011;108(38):16050-5. 42. Ohland CL
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INNOVATION IN HEALTHCAR
to meet public and personal healthcare needs and
Each of these factors affects not only whether or
THE FUTURE OF MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS AND D
relevant to the topic of mHealth in relati
Table 1: Selected studies on the impact of mobile
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current technologies, standardisation of
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