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Google Glass Should Be Banned For Privacy Reasons Say One In Five UK Residents, Per New Survey
Google Glass isn’t even a product released for public consumption yet and already people are up in arms about its effect on personal privacy. Read More »
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Health Checks Via Smartphones, Tablets On The Way
A new cloud-based system could deliver real-time health monitoring and alerts to healthcare professionals. Read More »
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How Mobile Became Mighty In Healthcare
Ten powerful trends emerging in mobile health for patients, professionals and providers...
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How Robotics, Apps Can Improve Quality of Life
Recently, I worked a booth for the Southwest ADA Center at the annual Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology conference held in New Orleans. The event was filled with interactive exhibits and workshops on robotics, artificial intelligence and technologies for people with disabilities. One researcher was gathering data for a robotics engineering center working on a therapy support robot. She brought up the telepresence robot, PadBot...
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How The “Internet Of Things” Will Replace The Web
We’ve already written about why 2014 is really, finally the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth—becomes visible in our everyday lives. Read More »
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How To Ensure New IT Systems In Healthcare Are A Success
Sponsored Q&A: Expert views from our live discussion on implementing IT systems...
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In Groundbreaking Move For Health Trackers, Apple Teams With Mayo Clinic
In a move that propels mobile health apps and fitness trackers from a mostly amateurish realm into the formal health care setting, Apple AAPL announced that it is working with Mayo Clinic to integrate medical information via its platform HealthKit, a part of its new operating system iOS 8 for iPhones and iPads. Apple will consolidate heart rate, blood pressure, weight, and other data from disparate apps and devices, including Nike....
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It's Going to be Huge! Google Glass, Open Source, & Healthcare
Earlier this month, Dr. Rafael Grossmann made the news with his his first Google Glass aided surgery. This grabbed the attention of a lot of people in healthcare. Developers associated with the healthcare industry and the global 'open source' health IT community are now starting to get very active in this arena - exploring this emerging technology and creating the first generation of medical software apps for Google Glass. This whole area is going to be huge! Read More »
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LittleBits' Ayah Bdeir: Making Hardware As Hackable As Code
Long before she became the CEO of a tech company, Ayah Bdeir was an electronic artist whose installations shared messages about Arab identity. "Random Search" is an undergarment that records and shares the experience of an airport patdown. "Les Années Lumière," or "The Years of Light," visualizes three years of explosions in Lebanon with blinking LED lights on a map.
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mHealth, Data Analytics See $4.7 Billion In 2014 VC Funding
The past year saw a $4.7 billion investment in healthcare IT companies, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group, as venture capital firms seek to promote lucrative technologies in the practice-facing and consumer-facing markets. Data analytics, population health management, and clinical decision support products were among the most likely to grab investor attention in 2014, while mHealth, telehealth, and wearable technologies saw $2.3 billion in major deals...
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Open Source Health announces launch of the first Women’s Precision Medicine Platform in Atlanta, USA
Open Source Health Inc....a cloud based precision medicine platform that puts control into the hands of women to educate, advocate and collaborate on their own healthcare is pleased to announce the launch of the myAva Precision Medicine Platform with it’s first cohort of women in Atlanta, GA. “After 2 years of development we are finally set to deliver precision medicine to women with PCOS” says Sonya Satveit, CEO of Open Source Health Inc. “By providing an in-depth molecular insight of each woman, myAva will help achieve a new understanding of PCOS and has the potential to provide precision treatment programs customized to each woman’s unique molecular makeup.”
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Palomar Health And Qualcomm Launch Glassware Medical Incubator
Glassomics Will Discover How Wearable Computing Devices Can Impact the Healthcare Industry Read More »
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Samsung Moves To Upstage Apple With New Biometric Data Platform
Samsung is building a “data bank” of people’s biometric information that app developers and researchers can plug into to create clever, health-related services — ideally for Samsung devices...
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Samsung Pushes Further Into Smart Home, Digital Healthcare And Virtual Reality At Developer Conference
Samsung Electronics kicked off its second annual developer conference with a bevy of announcements intended to ignite enthusiasm around its software for its wearable, digital health, virtual reality and smart home solutions...
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Sony SmartWatch Takes Wearable Tech into Open-Source Territory
In an interesting twist on the open source hardware movement, Sony has just announced it’s opening up its SmartWatch for your hacking pleasure. Read More »
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