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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

TechCrunch

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

Modern technical advancements in healthcare have made it possible to quickly handle critical medical data, medical records, pharmaceutical orders, and other data. In addition, pharmaceutical businesses can generate more effective drugs and improve medical research and experimentation using machine learning.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

CIO

Storytelling is as old as humanity itself and it’s core to the fundamentals of faith, politics, and marketing. The late Richard Sykes, CIO of pharmaceuticals giant ICI in the 1990s and later a columnist for CIO magazine, famously scripted starkly different scenarios of the future of ICI for board members early in his IT role.

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

Altexsoft

Digital therapeutics bring innovations capable of filling in the gaps in the traditional medicine market and enhancing healthcare delivery in many areas. It is necessary to make a distinction between digital health, digital medicine, and digital therapeutics to draw a clear picture of how different products can be utilized in the market.

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Custom mHealth App Development: The Ultimate Guide for Businesses.

Openxcell

In a survey by Statista, the market size of mobile healthcare or mHealth applications is estimated to be worth 257 billion dollars by 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic further propelled the market to be adopted on a larger scale and at a faster pace. The market for adoption of healthcare applications rose by 60%.

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Pandora's Brain

Good immersive VR equipment is now found in most homes, and it is increasingly rare to see an adolescent in public outside school hours. All major movies made by Netflix, Hollywood and Bollywood are now produced in VR, along with all major video games. To general surprise, levels of literacy – and indeed book sales – have not fallen.

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Data at the Center: Pfizer, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, and Analytics Community Share Data-Centric Stories at TIBCO Analytics Forum 2021

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Director, WW Field Application at PerkinElmer , about how Perkin Elmer partners with TIBCO to bring analytics software solutions to the pharmaceutical R&D world. Sold-out hackathon, sponsored by AWS : Began on day two and winners will be announced on day three. Keep watching and learning on-demand.