Healthcare

Health data breaches has been on the increase for some years now and 2015 was a record year with more than 1 out of 3 Americans having their data compromised. …

Keeping vaccines cold Dulas, a renewable energy provider, sought a machine-to-machine (M2M) solution that would allow it to record and report the temperature inside vaccine refrigerators to prevent the vaccines from losing …

Insurance companies looking to cut costs, improve business practices and better assess clients’ risk levels, will increasingly invest in the internet of things, according to Business Insider. Some auto and health …

Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx’s machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to …

Data-driven, connected diabetes management is the focus of a new joint venture between Alphabet’s subsidiary Verily Life Sciences and French pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Developing a comprehensive, data-driven, connected diabetes management …

Connected healthcare You have probably used them before: the healthcare devices that look like bottomless cup holders you put your arm through to check blood pressure metrics at a pharmacy or …

American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable: Overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable met in Austin yesterday to speak …

5 things to know today… 1. AT&T’s IoT business has won a high profile healthcare customer. Biotricity, a publicly traded maker of wearable technology for medical diagnostics, has chosen AT&T …

Since its release on July 6 Pokémon Go, the highly popular and contagious game, has made headlines in news outlets The Guardian, Fox News, Huffington Post and the Independent for claims …

Samsung and Nestlé announced the two companies are to collaborate on a new IoT health platform designed to advance digital health. As the market for Internet of Things (IoT) starts …

AT&T has invested heavily in developed “internet of things” business lines in recent years. This point was underscored today with the opening of The Foundry for Connected Health at Texas …

Connected health and fitness portfolio bolsters Nokia’s IoT business A little more than a month after announcing the pending purchase of Withings, Nokia today announced closing on the $190 million …

Nokia’s return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today that it plans to buy France’s Withings, which makes connected devices to monitor health …

Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit …

Half of all smartphone owners believe internal sensors will update us on our well-being within 3 years, according to Ericsson’s Consumer Trends Report. But until now, those health sensors have …

Smart Solutions tech uses eye control to change the TV channel, call a nurse or adjust temperature WASHINGTON – Smart Solutions, an Alabama-based company, has embraced the “Internet of Things” …

Telehealth has been a goal of healthcare providers and network operators for more than 20 years, and now advances in mobile technology are finally making remote access to healthcare affordable …