IBM Watson Health Producing Big Savings

IBM Watson Health Producing Big Savings

  Can Big Data really impact healthcare costs and improve the lives of patients? At a roundtable event held by the IBM Curam Research Institute in Boston, MA last week, Rory O’Connor made a presentation about IBM Care Management, which is the first business...
Google Working on Wearable Health Tech Device

Google Working on Wearable Health Tech Device

In a story published by Bloomberg last week, a Google representative revealed that the company is working on the development of a wearable Health Tech that is not intended for consumer use. Instead, the company plans to produce a product that physicians and...
T-Shirt Measures ECG

T-Shirt Measures ECG

Last week, Imec and the Holst Centre jointly announced the development of a t-shirt that can monitor the wearer’s movement and heart activity. The key feature of this technology demonstration is that the shirt uses flexible smart fabric interconnects to gather...
Better Battery Cuts Costs [video]

Better Battery Cuts Costs [video]

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, lithium-ion batteries are possibly the worst of all battery technologies, except for all others that have been tried. They hold a lot of electricity in a small space, but they are expensive to make and are responsible for occasionally...
Smart Patch Actively Controls Blood Sugar Levels

Smart Patch Actively Controls Blood Sugar Levels

More than 8 million people worldwide have diabetes. Researchers are trying to develop ways to replace the function of the pancreas, which releases insulin in order to control the body’s blood sugar level. The current standard practice involves taking...