Digital health is booming on social media, whether it be talking to doctors online or finding out how Twitter can help explain sleep disorders, but what about Instagram?
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I have yet to hear of an industry that hasn’t been massively disrupted by technology. Healthcare is no stranger to this disruption. The question is which companies will actually break through the barrier and solve some of the major issues healthcare faces today?
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Adidas has bought Runtastic, bringing the popular fitness tracking app in-house and promising to “unleash its knowledge of sport” on its 70m users. The deal, which values Runtastic at around $241m, sees the app join Adidas’ own fitness wearables like the miCoach FIT SMART, and could give the sportswear brand a lower-cost way to engage new users via their smartphones.
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That is right, the implantable. In the past decade of tech innovation, connectivity has been the name of the game. Call your friend in the middle of the night in Antarctica.
Prendiamo l’ascensore, scendiamo al piano -2 dell’ospedale e lì troviamo il mondo di vetrini dell’anatomo-patologo, tanto centrale nella diagnosi e nel follow up del paziente oncologico, quanto spesso invisibile. Continue reading
CVS and IBM have teamed up to stop chronic diseases patients from having a medical emergency before it gets to that point. The pharmacy will use Watson, IBM’s cognitive computing technology, to predict chronic disease patients in danger based on red flag behaviors. Continue reading
It’s time for the provincial government to get out of the way of smart, cost-effective communication between doctors and their patients. Continue reading
Scrive Eric Topol: “With approximately two billion users worldwide, smartphones are the most rapidly adopted technology in the history of man […] We are about to see a medical revolution with little mobile devices”. Continue reading
Innovations in healthcare is becoming paramount in revolutionizing patient engagement, physician time management and improving overall quality of care. It is estimated that over sixty million patients flock to the internet instead of a physician for healthcare related information. Patients now have access to all the information at their fingertips that were once available only to healthcare professionals. Without question technology is having profound impact on the practice of medicine. Let’s explore through this infographic the impact of technology on patient doctor relationship and what what the future beholds.
Researchers testing the effects of DBS on the brains of rats hope to begin testing its effects in humans Continue reading