by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2017 | General News, Medical
Forward is an exceptionally well-funded San Francisco startup with a reported $100 million invested already. The company seeks to improve the conventional doctor-patient model by deploying mobile “pop-up” doctor’s offices to practice proactive and...
by Alfred Poor | July 10, 2017 | General News, Health
Part of the digital health revolution is the increasing role that individuals take in managing their own healthcare. The “quantified self” generates mountains of data that can be used by professionals to detect illness and track progress, but this same...
by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring...
by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2017 | General News, Health
U.S statistics for hypertension are daunting. According to a 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, one third of all adults age 20 and above have high blood pressure. The CDC also reported 9.5 deaths per 100,000 population from essential...
