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  • AI in healthcare: from promise to practice
    AI in healthcare: from promise to practice A new whitepaper explores reasons for the gap between research and practice in healthcare. Human factors, technical challenges and infrastructural aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) in the health domain are discussed to create a starting point for researchers, practitioners and policy makers.
  • First consultation hours for patients with smoldering Multiple Sclerosis
    First consultation hours for patients with smoldering Multiple Sclerosis Amsterdam UMC is launching unique consultation hours for patients with ‘smoldering MS’. This form of Multiple Sclerosis involves gradual disease progression even without active inflammation in the brain. During the special consultation hour, these patients will receive tailored treatment advice. The initiative is partly based on research into age and MS by neurologist Eva Strijbis and radiologist Frederik Barkhof of Amsterdam UMC, recently published in Nature Reviews Neurology.
  • Working together for mental health: Academic ecosystem Psychiatry Amsterdam
    Working together for mental health: Academic ecosystem Psychiatry Amsterdam Various partners in the Amsterdam Region have united in an ecosystem of academic psychiatry. ‘Psychiatry Amsterdam’, as an ecosystem, is led by the department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC.