De corona pandemie zorgt voor allerlei problemen op het gebied van zorg en welzijn. Problemen die we alleen door bundeling van kennis en expertise kunnen oplossen. Daarom heeft Dutch Hacking Health een platform gebouwd waar samen hard is gewerkt aan concrete oplossingen; De Coronathon!
Medical experts and data scientist are using artifical intelligence to fight the corona virus. Intensivist Paul Elbers from Amsterdam UMC spoke to NPO about the role of AI in healthcare and their fight against the corona virus.
Dexes and Madaster are the winners of the competition for an open, fair and reliable data market in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. With an investment of 750,000 euros, they can realize their grandiose ambitions. "There is a lot of valuable data, but there are still too many technical and legal barriers to share it smartly." And that must be solved quickly, as the current corona crisis shows us.
CEO of OLVG, Maurice van den Bosch, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on behalf of OLVG.
The 24-hour Medical Data Hackathon organised by Deloitte and Amsterdam University Medical Hospital (Amsterdam UMC) saw data scientists working with AI students on real data from intensive care. In the process, the teams came up with real world solutions.
The first Medical Data plus Pizza meeting for 2020 proved futuristic. Can the same machine learning techniques that produce deepfakes improve the survival rates for malaria patients? Will protein sequencing overtake genetic sequencing to help cancer patients access the best personalised treatment?
The textile industry is among the world’s most harmful industries. Textile production pollutes rivers, uses excessive amounts of water and chemicals, and labour conditions are often very poor. All this only so we can fill our wardrobes for very little money. Happily, there are many initiatives that give us hope by trying to do things differently and better. Stef le Fèvre from the City of Amsterdam talks about what’s happening in the Amsterdam Area and what we can do to make a positive impact.
In 2016, the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and the Amsterdam Economic Board organised a Circular Economy Lab to discuss how to make the mattress industry more circular. Mattresses currently represent the largest waste stream within the household waste category. Each year, consumers discard more than one million used mattresses – enough to fill the entire Amsterdam Arena all the way to the roof. Year after year after year. The vast majority of these discarded mattresses are incinerated.
As Amsterdam knowledge institutes commit 1 billion euros to AI research in the coming decade, those already in the data science trenches remind us: while the potential of applying data science for the benefit for patients seems almost infinite, there’s still a lot of work to be done.
On 14 and 15 November 2019, the City-zen Closing Event took place in Brussels. The two-day event marked the end of the City-zen program. It was a showcase of accumulated knowledge of five years of City-zen projects. The sessions at the event were aimed at integration of results, sharing of learnings and identifying barriers for replication. An unmistakable call to apply the lessons learned and make use of the insights gained.
