Trialbee are Looking for Volunteers with Eczema for Clinical Trial

Is eczema a part of your life? Volunteers needed for clinical trialTrialbee has now made it possible for about 80 candidates with eczema to volunteer in a medical research study around North Yorkshire & Sheffield. The screening period starts mid- September but pre sign-up is already possible. Get started.How can I participate?To be eligible, you must be:18 years of age or olderDiagnosed with moderate to severe eczemaAdvised not to apply creams or moisturizers for dry skinPurpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to explore the efficacy and safety of an investigational treatment for everyone with moderate to severe eczema (atopic dermatitis). Clinical and non-clinical studies have found there is a realistic expectation that this treatment will provide meaningful therapeutic benefit in eczema. Sign UpAbout TrialbeeTrialbee facilitates patient recruitment communication and cooperation between the various players involved in the entire clinical trial process. The company is specialized in e-recruitment, patient retention methods and electronic data collection. Source: RealWire

University of New England Delivers Cutting Edge Virtual Reality Nursing Education with Oxford Medical Simulation

Virtual Reality (VR) simulation allows nursing students at the University of New England to practice caring for acutely ill virtual patients within an immersive, realistic setting. Training healthcare professionals using VR serves to support clinical skill development, thereby advancing safe, high quality patient care. BOSTON, MA, Nov. 6th, 2019 - The University of New England (UNE) is working with Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) to deliver state-of-the-art virtual reality software to transform nursing education. The immersive virtual reality platform supports nursing students at the UNE School of Nursing and Population Health in providing simulated patient care to advance clinical decision making and communication skills with other health care providers. This training allows nursing students to practice in true-to-life virtual scenarios without posing risk or harm to patients and families.The technology is developed by Oxford Medical Simulation, an award-winning VR simulation company - based in Boston and London - and allows nursing student to practice treating acutely ill patients in a simulated, virtual environment. This optimizes skill development including clinical reasoning, decision making and patient/team communication, resulting in increased competence and confidence in managing complex care. “UNE’s Interprofessional Simulation and Innovation Center (ISIC) is committed to providing state of the art experiential learning opportunities to health professional students,” said Director of Clinical Simulation Dawne-Marie Dunbar, MSN/Ed., RN, CNE, CHSE. “With the OMS VR platform, we will be able to increase simulation capabilities that offer students access to complex patient care scenarios while optimizing time, space, and resources.” This innovative technology allows UNE ISIC to engage students in expanded simulation-based experiences. Simulation refers to the use of simulated patients to practice delivery of acute patient care and is widely regarded as the most effective way of training health care professionals. Simulation is traditionally implemented with actors and/or manikins staged within a mock, realistic setting. However, high-fidelity simulation requires significant time, space, and budget. As a result students may only receive two-to-three simulation experiences per year. With virtual reality simulation, students are now able to practice simulated scenarios as often as needed.“We’re delighted to be working with the University of New England to take nurse training to new heights. We developed OMS because we believe that training healthcare professionals in a flexible, zero-risk environment will transform patient care around the world. We all learn best from experience and the OMS system allows users at UNE to do just that - without putting patient’s lives at risk,” said Jack Pottle, MD, Chief Medical Officer of OMS.The OMS system provides students access to libraries of nursing scenarios, supporting practice of care provision and clinical decision-making across a wide range of conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, heart failure, and meningitis. Students enter the interactive virtual scenario using a VR headset and are greeted by a virtual mentor and their patient/family. Learner interaction with the patient mimics real-life engagement with a patient. Through this pedagogy (or experience), learners can examine the patient, ask questions, initiate treatment, and provide support/reassurance as they would in actual clinical practice. Every action the student takes is recorded and compared to best practice. Once the scenario is complete, the platform produces a comprehensive data analytics report providing the student with detailed feedback. This serves as a de-briefing tool to guide reflection as to what went well and what they need to improve on. For more information about OMS and its technology, visit: https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/.Editors Notes: Oxford Medical Simulation delivers virtual reality training for doctors and nurses. Using virtual reality headsets and OMS VR software, healthcare professionals can practice in immersive, fully interactive clinical scenarios as if in real life. They then receive personalized feedback and can repeat as often as needed to improve their performance. The OMS VR system delivers quality clinical training for healthcare professionals globally - allowing them to practice more, make fewer mistakes and improve patient care.Oxford Medical Simulation 30 Newbury StreetBoston, MA, USA201 Borough High StreetLondon, UKT: + 1 (617) 812 - 6831E: jessica@oxfordmedicalsimulation.comW: www.oxfordmedicalsimulation.com@vrmedicalsimSource: RealWire

Fresenius Kabi starts United for Clinical Nutrition initiative in Europe with first-of-its-kind clinical study assessing critically ill patients in 11 European countries

BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY – [November 18, 2019] The first patients are about to be enrolled in the EuroPN survey, a clinical study that will assess the nutritional balance and focus on functional outcomes of critically ill patients in about 100 hospitals across 11 European countries.
The survey is an important scientific project by United for Clinical Nutrition (UFCN), a global initiative that strives to fight hospital malnutrition and its detrimental effects on patient outcomes. Healthcare professionals in about 100 hospitals from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom will collect data on the nutritional status of their patients as well as caloric and protein intake during ICU stay. Caloric and protein balance will be related to clinical outcomes, with a focus on measures of physical function. The collected data will provide insights into the current practice of clinical nutrition in critically ill patients and uncover potential to improve the quality of care.
Disease-related malnutrition can worsen clinical outcomes In recent times, survival among critically ill patients has improved significantly. However, disease-related malnutrition is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, including increased risk of infections, prolonged ventilation, and increased length of ICU stay[1]. Clinical evidence suggests that adequate nutritional intake during critical illness improves functional outcomes and patients’ quality of life after ICU discharge[2]. Yet, the available evidence – especially in critically ill patients – is still limited. The EuroPN survey will provide valuable insights on how clinical nutrition may improve outcomes in critically ill patients.
UFCN – a global initiativeIn 2014, Fresenius Kabi established UFCN to raise awareness for disease-related malnutrition in countries around the world. After tailoring dedicated clinical projects and awareness campaigns for Latin America and Asia, UFCN expands their region of interest to Europe. The current EuroPN survey marks a cornerstone of the European initiative. For more information, please visit www.unitedforclinicalnutrition.com.
References[1] Norman K, Pichard C, Lochs H, et al. Prognostic impact of disease-related malnutrition Clin Nutr. 2008;27(1):5-15.[2] Wei X, Day AG, Ouellette-Kuntz H, et al. The association between nutritional adequacy and long-term outcomes in critically ill patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation: a multicenter cohort study. Crit Care Med. 2015;43(8):1569–7.
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About Fresenius KabiFresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company’s products and services are used to help care for critically and chronically ill patients. Fresenius Kabi’s product portfolio comprises a comprehensive range of I.V. generic drugs, infusion therapies and clinical nutrition products as well as the devices for administering these products. In the field of biosimilars, we focus on autoimmune diseases and oncology. In 2019, the first biosimilar product by Fresenius Kabi was launched. Within transfusion medicine and cell technologies, Fresenius Kabi offers products for collection and processing of blood and cell components.
With its corporate philosophy of "caring for life", the company is committed to putting essential medicines and technologies in the hands of people who help patients and finding the best answers to the challenges they face.
For more information, please visit www.fresenius-kabi.com.
For press inquiries, please contact:Nina EspirituEdelman GmbHBarmbeker Str 4, 22303 Hamburg, GermanyT: +49 (0)69 401254-345nina.espiritu@edelman.com

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e-days partners with Doctor Care Anywhere so businesses can direct employees straight to virtual GP services

- New partnership first of its kind to link absence management systems to on-demand medical healthcare and advice- As Coronavirus spreads, Doctor Care Anywhere fielding hundreds of calls per day, relieving pressure on NHS
London, UK: 17th March 2020: Employees can now access virtual GP services via their company’s absence management system, following a partnership between e-days, the leader in global absence intelligence, and Doctor Care Anywhere.
The announcement sees e-days, the global absence management and intelligence platform, offer integrated real-time wellbeing resources to workers. For the first time ever, companies will be able to link employee absence data and employee wellbeing by providing targeted services and resources to get them well more quickly. This comes at a particularly poignant time as concerns grow for the spread of COVID-19 in the UK.
The solution is designed to give employees 24/7 access to GP bookings, for video or telephone-based consultations, at the precise time when employees are most likely to need them, accessible from any device, anywhere. This extends e-days’ existing offering to businesses, which includes absence logging, tracking, trending, alerts and referrals, reporting and sickness case management.
“Our purpose is to make people’s lives better, and we are already working with almost one million people. This e-days partnership is a unique and exciting proposition enabling us to support their clients with medical assistance and routes to faster recovery,” said Dr Kate Bunyan, Chief Medical Officer at Doctor Care Anywhere. “The more we can offer employees, the less the pressure on organisations like the NHS. This is a huge step for employee wellbeing.”
Steve Arnold, CEO of e-days, commented: “Our mission is to provide companies with a comprehensive, full lifecycle solution, that maximises their ability to proactively manage employee wellbeing. This partnership with Doctor Care Anywhere opens the door to meaningful and convenient ‘in-absence’ care for employees. We believe all companies should have the tools and data points they need to impactfully take control of their employee wellbeing programs. Data is key to this, and very few companies can tie together their wellbeing programs with accurate absence data; e-days is fast becoming the centralised hub that brings together multiple employee wellbeing initiatives.”
Doctor Care Anywhere offers calm, reassuring support and advice and the tools needed to take care of an individual’s health, at the touch of a button. Its services will seamlessly integrate with the e-days absence management and tracking platform, providing employees with unplanned absence guidance and to help recover more quickly by making treatment and advice quickly available, without traditional stigmas around workplace wellbeing. Doctor Care Anywhere is already handling up 400 appointments per day.
“We all know that employee wellbeing is such an important topic, more than ever at this time,” added Arnold. “We’re delighted to be working Doctor Care Anywhere and together we aim to firmly prove the impact that virtual GP solutions can have to improve employee wellbeing. Currently, there’s a massive gap between the great intentions companies have, and the reality of their wellbeing offerings. We believe this partnership makes it a reality.”
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About Doctor Care AnywhereDoctor Care Anywhere is a doctor-founded digital healthcare company. From anytime appointments, fast and convenient prescriptions, to safe and secure patient records, Doctor Care Anywhere is a complete virtual GP service that simplifies healthcare for patients, clinicians and businesses that can be used anywhere in the world.
Website: https://doctorcareanywhere.com/ Twitter: @DrCareAnywhere
About e-daysFounded by CEO Steve Arnold and CTO Chris Moseley, e-days is an award-winning, cloud-based absence management and intelligence platform that makes holiday and absence management easy and accurate for organisations of all sizes, anywhere in the world. e-days delivers for more than 1,500 customers across 120 countries, including brands such as Canon, ASOS, AXA, Monster Energy, Barclays and Sony.
The e-days mission is to provide organisations with key intelligence regarding staff absence - enabling them to build better staff management and wellbeing strategies. Absence intelligence allows businesses to achieve better resourcing insights, save time and money associated with employee absence, and promote excellent employee wellbeing and better health for organisational success.
Website: https://www.e-days.com Twitter: @edayssoftware
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€1.5 million to increase the quality at the end of life

Zurich, July 7, 2020 – We+Care, the Swiss care coordination pilot project received funding from the EU’s AAL innovation promotion program for a three-year international research and development project called “Quality of Life at the End of Life”, which aims to improve the quality of life of care recipients at the end of life, their family caregivers and inter-professional teams from care providers.
Initiated in 2018, We+Care is tapping the untapped knowledge of family carers and helps creating the right care solution by making informed decisions on how to setup and coordinate a care network optimizing the resources efficacy of integrated care groups.
The «QEoL» project will help We+Care extend its proposition to remote palliative care cases, supporting connected families to fulfil last wishes using immersive and assistive technology. Funding for the project totals €1.5 million; of which €0.8 million represents public funding from the AAL Association, leading the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme financed by the European Commission, Innosuisse – the Swiss innovation promotion agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – CIHR and Austrian Research Promotion Agency, FFG.
The study lasting to December 31, 2022 stipulates that the partners of the project address the specific needs of care recipients during the very last stage of their life by applying emerging technologies. Extending We+Care’s open development platform technology aims to change the narrative of the tabooed end of life care.
The project is researched and developed in partnership with the coordinating Swiss Carers Association - Pro Aidants, the longevity startup - We+Tech, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences with the active assisted living team from iHomeLab, Canton of Aargau – Swiss public agency represented by the division of long term care within the department of Health and Welfare, University of Toronto Mississauga’s TAG Lab team specialized in technologies for aging gracefully and Innsbruck-based Smart in Life e.U. - consultancy for smart and assistive technology.
Project Websites:www.qeol.eu http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/qeol/
Picture-Downloads:Team-Picture from Kick-Off EventQuality End of Life Visual
More information: Patrick Hofer, Project Coordinator, +41445867964, patrick@proaidants.ch
About Pro AidantsPro Aidants, the Swiss Carers Association is a national membership charity for informal carers. In the pilot project We+Care an inter-professional community of long-term care providers are collaboratively exploring integrated care solutions.Source: RealWire

Half of all NHS trusts in England opt for UK tech company StarLeaf over video conferencing rivals

Watford-headquartered StarLeaf is a privacy-centric, British competitor to Zoom

Over 100 NHS organisations across England are using StarLeaf video meetings and chat to keep both internal and external teams connected and make sure medical appointments, training and recruitment take place
Over 50,000 medical professionals are registered users of StarLeaf across these organisations, making over half a million video call minutes each day
StarLeaf is facilitating 11,181 scheduled NHS meetings each day, and has played a vital role in helping the NHS go virtual during the pandemic

Watford,11th November 2020 - Video meetings provider StarLeaf is working with over 100 English NHS organisations, helping them to communicate and collaborate remotely, train and recruit staff and keep vital treatment, clinics and consultations going, as social distancing measures remain in place.
During the initial stages of the Coronavirus pandemic in the spring the NHS was forced to dramatically change the way it operates, with almost all-non Covid patient care having to be carried out remotely, and non-frontline staff required to work from home. StarLeaf video solutions have helped Trusts to take pressure off life-saving critical services, while allowing patients continued access to essential care appointments and keeping its staff as safe as possible.
StarLeaf ensures that mental health, physio, dermatology, outpatient and GP appointments are still able to take place via video call. Fetal medicine, hepatitis C, neuro-ophthalmology and renal clinics and consultations are also running through StarLeaf, reducing unnecessary travel and face-to-face contact, to keep patients and consultants safe.
In addition to clinical use, NHS organisations are also using StarLeaf to drive business efficiency. Internal team meetings, cross-Trust meetings, training and recruitment are all taking place using StarLeaf, enabling NHS trusts to continue collaborating, upskilling and recruiting much needed employees. The adoption of StarLeaf means that more NHS employees are able to work from home, while still providing crucial care.
A number of Trusts benefit from the use of StarLeaf meeting room solutions, as well as use via desktops and other devices to facilitate home and remote working. StarLeaf’s software also enables NHS staff to record and stream meetings where required, ensuring important communications can reach wider audiences and be subsequently accessed.
Many NHS organisations choose StarLeaf because of its stringent cyber-security measures. StarLeaf is directly connected to the NHS’s Health and Social Care Network, meaning information can be accessed and shared using a secure, private cloud connection, designed specifically for the NHS. As well as having ISO/IEC 27001 certification, StarLeaf has its own NHS specific data centre, ensuring sensitive patient information discussed and exchanged during meetings remains confidential and is transmitted and stored securely. StarLeaf’s data centres have not routed information through China, and all patient data resides within the UK.
The NHS also benefits from StarLeaf’s industry leading 99.999% service availability guarantee, which ensures NHS teams have a reliable, stable means of communicating and collaborating.
Mark Richer, co-founder and CEO of StarLeaf said: “The NHS provides a vital service to all of us across the country and the last few months have been testing times for everyone. We’re proud to work with NHS teams across the country, giving them access to secure, reliable video solutions that enable them to continue to provide first-class care and vital services, regardless of geography or other obstacles, such as the pandemic. We’ll continue to ensure that StarLeaf is a solution that people can rely upon to easily and safely connect with organisations such as the NHS.”
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About StarLeafStarLeaf enables seamless collaboration through intelligently engineered, reliable meeting room systems, superior video conferencing, and secure messaging. Designed and engineered by StarLeaf, the experience is intuitive and feature-rich, allowing total interoperability across all devices. StarLeaf brings future-proof communications to the enterprise, with a 99.999% uptime guarantee, robust security, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, and data jurisdiction control. Founded in 2008 in Cambridge, StarLeaf is the provider of choice for delivering meeting solutions that exceed enterprise expectations of service, security, and support. For more information, visit www.starleaf.com or follow us: on Twitter @StarLeafCo and LinkedIn.
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CareLineLive secures £175k funding from Innovate UK to accelerate digital transformation of homecare market

The grant for Sustainability & Innovation has been awarded to CareLineLive to develop data insights and further the functionality for its homecare platform that connects agencies, clients, carers and families

London, UK; 18th March 2021: CareLineLive, the all-in-one home care management software that increases efficiency, capacity, compliance and communication of both managers and carers by digitising their work flows, today announced that it has secured a £175k grant from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.
The Innovate UK funding supports a research-led software development project that extends the capability of CareLineLive to provide dynamic care planning of patients in their homes. With the Care Quality Commission (CQC) pushing for digitalisation of the sector, the project will result in more efficient data capture of a patient’s physical and mental welfare. This will ultimately improve patient care in a market that is traditionally fragmented and uses paper-based or legacy systems. Insights and predictions from data will also enable greater person-centred care.
CareLineLive’s mission is to keep individuals needing care at home and improve the level of care that they receive. With recent research by Age UK revealing that the number of over 75s is set to double in the UK and 30% of elderly patients needing care will not get a bed in a care home, CareLineLive founder and MD Josh Hough is championing homecare by delivering much needed innovation to the sector. With increased demand during COVID-19, the activity and notes of carers using CareLineLive’s real-time app gives families visibility of home appointments and details of the care given to their loved ones.
For agency owners and managers, CareLineLive provides an innovative, easy to use, cloud-based home care management system. Its customers have seen increased efficiencies and value, with improvement in cash flow and increased revenues of up to 50%.
Josh Hough commented: “As a UK health tech scaleup, we were delighted to receive this funding to deliver further improvements in homecare innovation. COVID-19 has both highlighted the urgent need for a more connected experience in the domiciliary care sector, as well as driven the rise in demand for the elderly to stay in their homes. We have purpose-built the CareLineLive solution to complete the circle of care, giving homecare staff a platform to easily track and record their patients’ care, families the insight into their loved ones’ care, and patients the peace of mind that their care is being monitored seamlessly. The next step will be increased data insights enabling more proactive interventions. This will ultimately help to integrate person-centred care between all care providers in the future.”
CareLineLive enables easy and quick rostering, real-time care visit monitoring, and integrates payroll and invoicing, even saving a carer’s time by including mileage calculations. The Innovate UK funding will build on the foundation of the existing home care management system and will use data to provide an early warning system that delivers effective, efficient and compassionate care within service users’ homes, alleviating pressures on the NHS. CareLineLive’s increased data insights will be developed and added to the system by June 2021.
Jane Townson, CEO at UKHCA (United Kingdom Homecare Association), commented: “If technological solutions were integrated across social care and health, citizens could experience seamless services which are safer and tailored to individuals. Harnessing the power of ‘big data’ will enable better prediction of, and response to, people’s changing needs. The government must incentivise innovation in the care sector, by establishing a fund to develop and implement the best technology, so the UK becomes a global leader.”
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About CareLineLiveCareLineLive is an all-in-one, purpose-built home care management system for domiciliary care agencies to manage the ‘circle of care’. The company was set up by Josh Hough in 2014 after being frustrated at the lack of access to his Grandfather's care. Working closely with a number of home care agencies, CareLineLive has used the latest technology to develop for agency owners and managers an innovative, easy to use, cloud-based homecare management system. Its award-winning platform leads to increased efficiency, capacity and compliance through digitising workflows, automating procedures, increasing revenue opportunities and decreasing overheads. CareLineLive completes the ‘circle of care’ and gives agencies and carers ‘more time to care’ and is operating throughout the UK, Ireland, Jersey and now Australia.
https://carelinelive.com/
Press contactsFor all media enquiries, please contact Roseanna Lane on 020 3697 6680 or rlane@thecommsco.comSource: RealWire