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NHS and technology: Making the case for innovation
Physician, reboot thyself! The health service is caught between its creaky past and a shiny future. But change is needed, and fast.
ResMed buys MatrixCare for $750 million, adds to home health care software portfolio
ResMed, best known for its sleep apnea equipment and software, is acquiring electronic health record player MatrixCare to expand is software-as-a-service business.
SK Telecom launches IoT-enabled blood sugar meter
SK Telecom has launched a blood glucose meter connected to its LTE Cat M1 network aimed at diabetes patients.
Jaybird Tarah Pro wireless sport headphones, hands-on: 14-hour battery life powers endurance workouts
Jaybird is known for offering wireless headphones for athletes and as it continues to broaden its range of offerings, the first Pro Series was released as the Jaybird Tarah Pro.
Fitbit turns operating profit in Q3, sees smartwatch, healthcare traction
Fitbit's smartwatch play is helping it pivot to be more of a healthcare platform. Garmin, which is much larger than Fitbit, also reported earnings.
Wearable news: Garmin brings Spotify to the Forerunner 645 Music and Polar releases two new GPS sports watches
Garmin continues to roll out Spotify support to its watches with music capability. Polar's recently announced watches are now available to purchase and train with.
Under Armour's connected fitness unit consistently turns quiet operating profit
The company has been more focused on its core business, inventory and direct-to-consumer apparel sales, but its digital efforts are also paying off.
Kit Check CEO Kevin MacDonald on AI, opioid diversion, and leveraging data
Kit Check is using AI and machine learning to prevent the theft of opioids in hospital pharmacies. Here's how one product line and the data collected from it led to a new application.
Nvidia, Scripps Research partner to advance AI for disease prediction
The partners aim to develop AI and deep learning best practices, tools and infrastructure to accelerate AI applications using genomic and digital health sensor data.
Garmin expands offline music service support with Spotify integration
Garmin launched offline music on some of its devices this year and today rolled out support for another subscription service. Spotify is one of the world's most popular services that can now be used on your GPS sports watch.
Can blockchain transform healthcare IT?
How the technology-enabled mechanism of trust might affect the way medical information is handled.
How technology can save the NHS
The NHS could massively benefit from new technologies - just not the new technologies you think.
Jaybird Tarah announced: $100 wireless waterproof earbuds for training and fitness
Today's smartwatches and GPS sports watches support offline music playback so a Bluetooth headset is required to workout without a phone. Most phones also no longer have a headset jack so wireless is the way to go.
Small, flexible plaster uses ultrasound waves to monitor blood pressure inside your body
The readings might be more accurate, too, considering how our blood pressure tends to rise in the doctor's office.
Fitbit launches Fitbit Care platform for health care plans, expands Humana partnership
The effort is a big move into recurring revenue and using Fitbit's data to become more of a software provider in the health care ecosystem.
Last-minute back-to-school tech supplies for under $200
Add these useful, cool tech items to your back-to-school list for 2018.
These wearable tech brands are a huge disappointment
Have ever quit using a fitness tracker, and if so, why? Here is what respondents to a survey hated about their trackers -- and which came out on top.
Integrating AI and mental health
Tonya Hall discusses applications for AI-based empathy with Alvaro Marquez, chief creative officer.
Garmin and Polar upgrade fitness watches with Spotify, heart-rate monitoring tech
Garmin continues to roll out Spotify support to its watches with music capability. Polar's recently announced watches are now available to purchase and train with.
Turning digital disruption into a healthcare advantage
Is improving tech the key to to making healthcare more efficient?
Smart bandage promises cleaner wounds and better healthcare
Researchers are using flexible bioelectronics to help wounds heal better.
Smart contact lenses could provide a boost to healthcare monitoring
Health tech: Researchers are working on combining sensors with off-the-shelf contact lenses for a range of medical applications.
Healthcare innovation: MIT researchers develop swallowable pill to spot hidden illnesses
MIT researchers have created swallowable chips that can help identify blood in the gastrointestinal tract.
Ultra-low power chips provide a boost to nerve-conditions research
Researchers at Purdue University are developing chips that could help scientists understand nerve conditions, and potentially help lay the foundations for neuroprosthetics.
Why biomedical data sets are more secure on the cloud
Marc Fiume, CEO of DNAstack, explains why housing biomedical data on premise can be a burden for research institutions.
IBM Watson Health extends cancer treatment partnership with Department of Veteran Affairs
After providing precision oncology care fore more than 2,700 veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs and IBM are extending their partnership through at least June 2019.
A cheap solution to a costly medical issue: Smart bandages to treat chronic wounds
The new, sensor-based bandages have been designed by engineers at Tufts University.
WHO says gaming addiction is a mental health condition
With gaming disorder making its way into the International Classification of Diseases it's just a matter of time before other digital issues--think smartphone and social--are flagged.
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