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Can playing these video games really make you a better doctor?
Level Ex's smartphone games aim to give physicians an insight into difficult and unusual clinical cases.
McLaren's motorsport data learnings are driving innovation in health
The organisation is taking what it has learned in the motorsport industry from capturing data off fast-moving vehicles and applying it to the automotive, public transport, and health industries as well.
Coros announces VERTIX GPS adventure watch: 45-day battery life and extreme operating profile
There are wearables for daily activity tracking, casual runners, serious athletes, and extreme athletes. The new Coros GPS watch is designed for climbers, runners, and outdoor explorers.
Fitbit Charge 3, Inspire HR added to UnitedHealthcare Motion
Fitbit looks to continue pushing its health and wellness solutions.
Garmin Forerunners, Google I/O expectations, Huawei solid number two (MobileTechRoundup show #468)
Google I/O is coming up this week, Huawei continues to rise in worldwide smartphone share, and Garmin announced five new Forerunner GPS sports watches.
Medicare for All faces big data, privacy, technology hurdles, says CBO
The Congressional Budget Office highlighted the IT challenges with a single payer healthcare model, but also noted that Taiwan may have a design that would keep costs down.
Fighting diseases with data science: How the NHS wants to smash silos to supercharge healthcare
The NHS already has the data to identify rare diseases and discover new treatments. It just needs to find it.
Fitbit's enterprise health unit hits Q1 stride, $122 million annual revenue run rate
Fitbit is also seeing strong demand for its devices. The hardware is seen as a customer acquisition avenue for a broader software and services strategy.
IBM, NYU research shows deep learning can be trained to better spot glaucoma effects
Deep learning models can be trained to learn from retina images and then estimate visual function.
Accenture Interactive, Stockholm Exergi aim to combat elderly loneliness with AI
The project, collaboration with Accenture Interactive and Stockholm Exergi, is called Memory Lane and uses conversational artificial intelligence to capture stories from the elderly.
Garmin announces new Forerunners with incident detection, music, and menstrual cycle tracking
Garmin continues to move the needle when it comes to GPS sports watches and these updates to the Forerunner series are designed for the casual to the professional runner.
To curb malaria: Tableau, Mapbox, Exasol, and Alteryx donate $4.3M in tech
The grant will be used to scale the Visualize No Malaria program in more African countries.
The future of cybersecurity: Your body as a hacker-proof network
Could a 'body area network' be the key to keeping medical devices safe or transferring data between individuals?
Researchers find crowdsourcing, AI go together in battle vs. lung cancer
Crowd innovation can be used for algorithms and artificial intelligence to offset a shortage of radiation oncologists for lung cancer, say researchers.
Fitbit's second act: Can the original fitness band maker stage a comeback with healthcare?
Fitbit arguably started the trend towards consumer health-tracking hardware. Now the market it created has moved on and left it behind, can Fitbit turn things around?
CES 2019: Health gadgets and tech take center stage
Healthcare, both physical and mental, has become the focus of some vendors at CES this year.
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.
How AI can combat loneliness in the elderly
The project from Accenture Interactive and Stockholm Exergi, called Memory Lane, intends to use AI to capture and reproduce stories from the elderly. Read more: https://zd.net/2ZLumKB
How joined-up systems can create better healthcare services
Forget AI and VR; if the NHS wants to use tech to improve healthcare, it needs to start with something else.
How digital tech will help shape the healthcare skills of the future
There's no doubt that IT is reshaping healthcare. But can the NHS get its nurses and doctors ready to embrace all the tech changes ahead?
How digital devices and services will help transform the NHS
The health service is faced with increasing demand for its services combined with underfunding. Can it use technology to reinvent itself?
NHS case: In cybersecurity, the small details matter as much as the big plans
If hospitals don't take cybersecurity seriously, a series of small issues could be as bad as a major cyberattack like WannaCry, warns NHS Digital chief.
Samsung wants to use technology to boost health and social care
Samsung is looking at digital health and medical tech through a longer lens than some of its competitors.
There's value in the data collected from Apple and Fitbit watches
ZDNet's Larry Dignan talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how the health care sector will be impacted by the large amounts of data that both Apple and Fitbit will be collecting in 2019. Read more: https://zd.net/2TwQEQ7
Helping veterans access their health benefits
ZDNet's Tonya Hall talks to Matt Cutts, administrator at United States Digital Service, about how he and his team are working to make the process of obtaining health benefits for veterans easier.
IBM Watson, Harvard, and MIT working on algorithms that predict heart attacks
The three-year project aims to produce AI models that can analyze genomic data, health records and biomarkers to predict the onset of heart attacks and other common conditions.
How the health care sector can tap into more data in Salesforce's Health Cloud
ZDNet's Stephanie Condon talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how health care providers, payers and other parts of the industry can now add "social determinants" to the Health Cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2By418A
What is digital health and how will you benefit?
How and why tech's big players are poised to give the industry its biggest shakeup in decades.
Aetna and Apple: The healthier you are, the cheaper your next Apple Watch will be
Time to get active says insurance giant as it launches new programme with Apple. Read more: https://zd.net/2BdrLyK
Riddell and Carbon produce first-ever 3D printed football helmet liner
Riddell and Carbon have partnered to create the first impact-reducing, personalized fit football liner for helmets.
UQ develops new ultrasound that listens to bacteria and cells
The Australian university has a developed a world-first, ultra-precise ultrasound sensor that can measure miniscule random forces from surrounding air molecules.
Popularity of wearable devices raises big questions about data privacy
Smartwatches and other wearables will be a must-have for personalised healthcare, but a privacy backlash could put an end to all that.
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