by Alfred Poor | May 2, 2018 | General News, Health
Fitness bands and smart watches can do much more than just measure steps. The motion detecting sensors in these devices generate an enormous amount of data, and if analyzed correctly, this haystack of information can yield all sorts of valuable needles of actionable...
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 | October 17, 2017 | General News, Health
You may not smoke. Perhaps you never were a smoker or quit years ago. Many of your friends and family members who used to smoke may have quit also. I had my last cigarette January 20, 1991… and I do count the days because they represent freedom from a toxic...
by Alfred Poor | July 10, 2015 | Health, Medical
Last month, Goldman Sachs published a report, “The Digital Revolution comes to US Healthcare.” A story in Business Insider provides some of the details from the report, including projections of more than $300 billion “in the near future.” This...
by Alfred Poor | March 20, 2015 | Health, Medical
Earlier this week, the New York Times chose to publish an article with the headline “Could wearable computers be as harmful as cigarettes?” (That was later toned down to “The Health Concerns in Wearable Tech,” apparently in response to the...