Tag: Healthcare
People Power, Berkeley, IBM develop smart dementia solutions
Internet of Things (IoT) software company People Power has received funding from the US National Institute on Aging (sic) to develop in-home solutions for carers of dementia...
10 steps to a successful business case for IoT
In this must-read guide to building a business case for IoT programmes, Andrew Hobbs reveals how best to identify and act on digital innovation...
Report warns of DeepMind Health monopoly
A panel of independent reviewers, commissioned by DeepMind Health itself, has warned that DeepMind Health could exert "excessive monopoly power” in the healthcare and...
IoT futures: MIT develops RFID sensors, 3D-printed shape-shifters
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should remind us of the power of low-cost, elegant simplicity in deploying the Internet of...
IoM 2018: How AstraZeneca is getting manufacturing innovation right
Andrew Hobbs reports exclusively from our Internet of Manufacturing conference in London, on how AstraZeneca's senior innovation architect, Steve Woodward, and innovation design analyst...
Smart medicine: Wireless system powers tiny devices inside the body
US researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, have developed wireless technology that...
3D printing breakthrough enables detailed models of patient scans
A newly developed 3D printing technique allows CT and MRI scans to be accurately represented in "exquisitely detailed" medical models, providing researchers and doctors...
Robots used to grow mini-organs from human stem cells
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine in Seattle have developed an automated system that uses robots to produce human mini-organs,...
Amazon building healthcare team in Alexa division
Amazon is reported to be building a health and wellness team inside its Alexa smart assistant division, as part of its ongoing strategy to disrupt the...
White House ‘AI for American Industry’ summit hosts Amazon, Facebook, Google
Representatives from 38 major US companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Ford, will gather at the White House today for an AI...
Imperial College crowdsources smartphone network to fight cancer
Harnessing the processing power of smartphones could be a useful way to crunch clinical data, as healthcare continues to work towards the goal of...
Fitbit & Google partner to accelerate IoT in healthcare
Health tracker and wearables company Fitbit has teamed with Google to open up new insights and innovations in digital health. Together, they hope to...