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Alert: Rething digital health, from technology to therapeutic relationships. Coming on June 23, 2025

 In the context of DIGICARE Academy , our President Dr Marco Manca is invited to share his mind about the role of Digital Health not just as a tool for efficiency and convenience, but as empowerer of the therapeutic relationships. Participation is free for everyone , the announcement of the seminar is available here , and to join the event you should just connect  here  on time.

To know what we know: from the science of emergence, to BioDynaMo

  NetBioMed , a satellite of the NetSci conference , in their own words brings together researchers on Machine Learning, Digital Twins and Complex Systems towards solving problems in biology and medicine . On June the 2nd 2025 our President, Dr Marco Manca , has joined friends and colleagues from around the world to discuss the epistemology of life sciences. In an intense half an hour talk, Dr Manca has lead the audience through a brief history of delusions in medical knowledge, to immediately focus on the processes and pitfalls of building human knowledge, the impact of assumptions (dscussing the case of ergodicity assumptions) and models on measurements (and thus, on data). He discussed the pros and cons of machine learning and the limitations of the aspiration to extract "objective knowledge" from data, or even dependable knowledge, because of the very founding principles on which ML as we have it today works. He then moved on to reflect on the shifting regimes between ...

There and back again. European diversity as a ladder for growth

 On May the 28th, 2025 our President Dr Marco Manca  has shared with international peers and a brilliant audience his wisdom about managing innovation in healthcare His message has been clear. To nurture innovation as a force for good in healthcare managers have to hold on to 3 key principles: promoting a culture of transparency, where any actor involved is free to contribute and raise questions; knowing one's own value chain and how it compares to the stakeholders', as a key to maintain a healthy alignment between goals and actionability;  identifying the sectors/domains where a blame free culture is beneficial, and necessary, and those where a healthy spending control can become a leverage for change. The time available was limited, but if you are curious to read more about the value chain maturity mapping technique he referred to, please head to where its original author kindly contributed the documentation in open access guise .

Alert: There and back again. European diversity as a ladder for growth - Coming on May 28, 2025

 On May the 28th, 2025 our President Dr Marco Manca will join the 4th edition of the " Open Meeting Grandi Ospedali, 2025 " He will join the International session, discussing how innovation is nurtured, and governed to be a force for good Join in if you are around, and do say hello!