Student and teacher wellness are vital, but their vastly differing needs have often posed a challenge for schools. How do you provide services that benefit everyone without being too disruptive or displaced? School wellness programs often focus on creating...
56% of people owned at least one wearable device at the end of last year, and the wearables market is constantly growing. The availability of personalized health data is a huge attraction for many people, particularly as the awareness of the importance of health and...
Technology is making it possible for amazing strides to be achieved in the healthcare industry. In fact, there are many ways in which big data is innovating healthcare overall. For example, McKinsey reports that “Kaiser Permanente has fully implemented a new computer...
The rise of big data has become a significant turning point in biomedical research. Twenty years ago, it cost $100 million to sequence a single human genome. With the advent of high throughput sequencing technologies, sequencing the human genome has become faster and...
Cancer is a pervasive problem that is becoming more prevalent in the United States and abroad. Oncologists are investing in new technology to improve treatments for their growing number of patients. In recent years, healthcare experts have discovered that artificial...
An employee gap analysis is a systematic review of an employee’s current performance to see how it measures up to the standards set by management. Through this type of analysis, management can identify “gaps” in skill and training that need to be filled in order to...
I recently interviewed Dr. Jurgi Camblong, expert in data-driven medicine and CEO of SOPHiA GENETICS - a health tech company which has developed SOPHiA Artificial Intelligence (AI), the most advanced technology for clinical genomics, helping healthcare professionals...
We interviewed Professor Mike Trenell, Chief Scientific Officer of Changing Health, which combines psychological tools with technology to help people with Type 2 diabetes (where the body becomes resistant to insulin) improve their lifestyle habits and better manage...
Healthcare industry is generating a copious amount of data every day. Electronic medical records, billing, clinical systems, data from wearables, and various pieces of research continue to churn out huge volumes of information. This presents a valuable opportunity for...
Artificial intelligence is playing a prominent role in the healthcare industry. From wearable technologies that can monitor heartrate and the number of calories you’ve burnt. To apps that combat stress and anxiety. The number of advances that AI pioneers have made in...
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While there remains no cure for Parkinson’s Disease as of yet, Big Data is making major strides in grossly expanding what we know about the disease—and thus making a cure more likely in years to come. Parkinson’s doesn’t just affect old people, either, as many people...
Probably in just a few years, it would difficult to find a doctor who would be sitting there with a white coat and stethoscope. Rather, your next doctor could be a bot or an automated program. And, the reason why I am making such a statement is nothing but the...
The human brain is an amazingly powerful biological machine. It’s thousands of neurons control everything from our bodies to our very nature. Everything we are, or could be, hides in those cells. Neuroscientists have a basic understanding of the human brain and how...
From its role in global epidemics to new wearable technology and public health analysis, big data is having a tremendous impact on the medical field. There are many potential benefits, but also possible drawbacks: while patients will be armed with more knowledge and...
Since healthcare information technology is currently in the spotlight due to recent technological advances in data sharing and information database analytics, as well as Healthcare IT Week, beginning September 26th, now is a great time to talk about the intersections...
The healthcare field has greatly benefited from advances in data analytics and informatics over the last few years. In general, patients will continue to be more connected to their doctors and support networks via wearable technology, and they will also have...
The push for medical-based Big Data analytics and an increase in the pervasive role of cloud services has launched healthcare into a new frontier. As more medical information is uploaded to the cloud and vastly more analytics carried out on Big Data repositories of...
It is no longer a secret that, mobile technology has taken over virtually every sector of the world with health care not an exception. Thanks to a novel technology and engineering tactics that pushed health care in many parts of the globe for a huge positive...
Pharmaceutical research and development, which involves creating new drugs and making old ones safer and cheaper, is a difficult and error-prone process; not to mention its exorbitant costs. As with most research driven fields, trial and error is what's responsible...
As Tejvan Pettinger wrote in his blog “The main impacts of an aging population”, we must be proud of the great achievement of the twentieth century regarding the dramatic rise in life expectancy. However, the aging population comes with many challenges for smart...
Internet has revolutionized how we share information, the Internet of Life will transform our healthcare systems, globally. In response to the growing threat of emerging infections and drug-resistant ‘Super Bugs’, QuantuMDx is digitizing biology to share pathogen data...
A model using big data from asthma-related tweets could help doctors target treatments and hospitals plan and make better use of resources by predicting asthma-related accident & emergency (A&E; emergency room) visits. The results are being published in the IEEE...
We all know how it works. You walk into a doctor’s office complaining about some pain in your leg or otherwise. They take your temperature, get you on the scale, check your blood pressure, and perhaps even get out the rubber hammer. These measurements are simply...
Gephyrin is a protein that multitasks – it regulates receptors in the brain, it has been linked with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and other neurological diseases, and it means that the body can synthesize an essential trace nutrient. Using big data,...
Maggi noodles is unsafe and it is banned! Every Indian and people all around the world must have heard of this recent fiasco over dangerously high level of lead and MSG levels in Maggi. Only, if it had proper Big Data tools, Nestle Maggi could have saved itself from...
Have you ever thought Big Data could predict the time of your death? Recently, I encountered an App in Facebook which asked me certain questions like “how frequently do you exercise? Do you drink/smoke?” and then gave me a year when I will die. Many of you also would...
A report on analytics in healthcare from CDW Healthcare indicates that the adoption of big data analytics technologies is a top priority for the majority of hospitals currently and the top motivational factors driving analytics are: the rising cost of healthcare...
Many companies and research groups are working to treat diabetes, but preventing the disease will have a greater impact on health in at-risk groups. A team of US researchers are using data analytics to create a precision medicine approach to prevention of diabetes...
In the past, there was no accurate way to track the outbreaks of diseases. It used to take weeks for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's surveillance network to collect and process its data, but things have changed! Today, scientists at Google are now able...
There are moments in life when you favorite that you just met someone who has exactly the same tastes as yourself. About a decade ago, if you see someone in a coffee shop or on the bus reading a book which is in your top 10 list, you could approach them and kick-start...
Successful 21st century healthcare organizations do not thrive based on the intuition of a few brilliant leaders; rather, they become modern data-driven businesses. Delivering better care, fostering population health and greatly reducing the per capita cost of care...
Big Data: the friend you met at a bar after your usual two drinks, plus one. You leaned in, listening more intently than usual. “Digital footprint.” “Information Age.” You nodded and smiled, even though you didn’t understand. “Change the world.” “The future.” You were...
The history of the algorithm for dating websites date back to mid-1960s, where there was a computer service, where participants punched holes into a set of questions and a computer processed the questions from different participants and returned matches. The first...
Here are a few facts about Berg, a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company headquartered in Framingham, MA, that seem calculated to set off all the alarm bells in the head of a skeptical observer: The president and CTO, Niven Narain, claims that his company can cut the...
We live in an era of digital revolution. The result? Big Data. Typically, the word 'Big Data' refers to data sets so large and complex that they are difficult to process using traditional applications, it has the potential to impact almost everything around us....
Researchers at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world's most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens, which can be used to prevent and tackle disease outbreaks around the globe. The Enhanced...
Oxford University researchers have developed a computer program that can diagnose rare genetic disorders in children simply by analysing regular photographs. The program works by recognising certain characteristic facial structures that can be present with certain...
There’s a treasure trove of data locked away in medical records and scientific studies that, if liberated and used appropriately, could help to improve cancer care. Big data is not a new concept – it’s actually been changing the face of medicine for years. The best...
The human brain may be nature’s finest computer, but artificial intelligences fed on big data are making a convincing challenge for the crown. In the realm of healthcare, natural language processing, associative intelligence, and machine learning are revolutionizing...
Research published today in the American Journal of Managed Care demonstrates that analysis of patient records using state-of-the-art data analytics can predict future risk of metabolic syndrome. More than a third of the U.S. population has metabolic syndrome, a...
On Monday mornings, Bob Michaels walks into the infusion center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and takes a seat in a comfortable barcalounger. An oncology nurse connects the port implanted in the retired university professor’s chest to a portable IV...
On Monday mornings, Bob Michaels walks into the infusion center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and takes a seat in a comfortable barcalounger. An oncology nurse connects the port implanted in the retired university professor’s chest to a portable IV...
On Monday mornings, Bob Michaels walks into the infusion center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and takes a seat in a comfortable barcalounger. An oncology nurse connects the port implanted in the retired university professor’s chest to a portable IV...
Researchers at IBM, Berg Pharma, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UC Berkeley and other institutions are exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can be used to develop better treatments for diseases. But one of the biggest challenges for making full use of these...
Researchers at IBM, Berg Pharma, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UC Berkeley and other institutions are exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can be used to develop better treatments for diseases. But one of the biggest challenges for making full use of these...
Researchers at IBM, Berg Pharma, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UC Berkeley and other institutions are exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can be used to develop better treatments for diseases. But one of the biggest challenges for making full use of these...
The technology in fitness trackers is changing the way researchers study exercise, allowing them to gather much more detailed information about how people move throughout the day, experts say. The change is being driven, in part, by advances in accelerometers, the...
Medical device cybersecurity issues arrive at the Heart Rhythm Society's annual meeting, with reps from industry and regulation making the case for collaboration in the interest of patient safety. It'll take a village to ensure that medical devices are ready to face...
A new cloud service from Swan Island Networks allows cities to tie information together from multiple "big data" sources to improve the response to natural disasters and man-made catastrophes. "Trusted Information Exchange Service [TIES] promises to allow city...
On Wednesday came the government release, finally, of Big Data on Medicare payments to medical practitioners for 2012. The beginning, one hopes, of release of many more years of data in aid of trend-spotting. Also, surely, some reining in of the grossest of these...