Scientists can hack sensors in cars and phones with a $5 speaker
/Critical sensors in lots of cars, phones, and medical devices could be vulnerable to hacks from sound waves.
Read MorePlease take the 2017 Survey of Mobile Health Technology (mHealth) & Apps!
/The LiveWell RERC invites you to participate in the 2017 Survey on Remote Health and Technology.
Read MoreIs Your IoT Device Spying on You?
/I was born on the cusp of the internet revolution. As a kid, my friends and I roamed the streets and were more or less off the grid. Once we left the house, we were untraceable. We had to run to a friends house or a pay phone (remember those?) to get in touch with a parent.
Read MoreFrom Customized Shoes To Interactive Gaming, Nike Scores With Record High In Patent Grants in 2016
/Nike won a record high of over 690 patent approvals in 2016, partially driven by a major expansion of patent applications the previous year. For a retail brand, Nike has been active in the tech sector over the years, collaborating with Apple, launching various wearable apps and devices, and making private market investments in artificial intelligence (via startup Reflektion) and supply chain optimization (via startup Llamasoft).
Read MoreWhich customers should the disruptors in health care target?
/In discussing disruptive innovations in health care, we generally focus our attention on the new enabling technologies or the new business models. While the technology and the business model define the disruptive solutions, customers who adopt the innovations are the ones who bring disruption to reality. As we have pointed out, disruptive innovation is the only way to curb skyrocketinghealth care spending. Then, finding the most willing customers for disruption is critical to applying the brakes to this spending crisis.
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Read MoreBlockchain: Opportunities for Health Care
/A blockchain powered health information exchange could unlock the true value of interoperability. Blockchain-based systems have the potential to reduce or eliminate the friction and costs of current intermediaries. Particularly compelling use cases for blockchain technology include the Precision Medicine Initiative, Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR), and the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap. For these and other high-potential areas, determining the viability of the business case for blockchain is paramount to realize the bene ts of improved data integrity, decentralization and disintermediation of trust, and reduced transaction costs.
Read MoreManaging IoT medical devices poses challenges for IT
/Connected devices have become a prevalent phenomenon in the consumer space and have made their way into healthcare. With the need to capture patient health data and provide different capabilities for hospital staff, health IT has seen an increase in demand for the Internet of Things. But IT professionals still remain cautious as they evaluate IoT medical devices in the marketplace, primarily due to security concerns. The risks with IoT are exponentially more dangerous in a healthcare space than those in the consumer space.
Read MoreFeds recognize innovative new consumer and provider apps
/Having challenged software developers to design apps to help consumers easily collect and integrate their health data from disparate providers and IT systems, and offer apps to physicians that expand use of electronic health records, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology now has picked the winners.
Read MoreFDA finds St. Jude Medical cardiac devices can be hacked
/The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that it has confirmed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in St. Jude Medical’s implantable cardiac devices and its Merlin@home transmitter.
Read More3 emerging technologies that will impact healthcare
/If you read my previous article concerning the progress we have made in health information technology adoption and the development of digital health tools, yo. I believe we have made significant progress in many areas, but there are also some places where we have a long way to go.
Read MorePlease complete the 2016 Survey of User Needs for Technology!
/The LiveWell RERC invites you to participate in the 2016 Survey of User Needs for Information Communication Technology, or SUN-ICT.
Read MoreSmartphone apps are found to reduce depression, anxiety
/A suite of smartphone apps developed by Northwestern Medicine has successfully reduced depression and anxiety symptoms in study participants by 50 percent, an efficacy rate similar to that typically achieved through psychotherapy or antidepressant medication.
Read MoreMyHeart Counts, a ResearchKit App Study, Releases First Results
/This week, Stanford's MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study published initial findings from its ResearchKit-based study. And for anyone interested in digital health, particularly research, the findings are a must-read.
Read MoreLongitudinal data from sensors help assess health risks
/Trillions of data points collected by wearable sensors now can be translated into empirically verified measures of health risk and benefit for patients, which can be used to quantify and enhance their length and quality of life.
Read MoreResearchers find wearables pose risks to consumer privacy
/Weak and fragmented healthcare privacy regulations are failing to provide adequate federal laws to protect personal health information collected by wearable devices that are increasingly popular with consumers.
Read MoreUsing Wearable Technology to Advance Parkinson’s Research
/Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation collaborate on a Parkinson’s research solution using wearable technology, Intel algorithms, Big Data analytics, and the Cloudera distribution of Hadoop.
Read MoreIoT security vulnerabilities turn hospital CIOs' dreams into nightmares
/A connected healthcare where patients can transmit data back to their physician to monitor their vitals after leaving the hospital has been a dream for many. The ability to leverage connected devices to capture and transmit relevant health information from a patient's heart monitor while at home or record oxygen levels while in the operating room shows the power of medical devices. But with the recent debilitating distributed denial of service attacks against some of the top DNS servers, such as those used by Amazon, many IT executives have had to question whether or not their IoT strategy is still safe or even possible.
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The IoT user interface designs: Thinking beyond the screen
/Check out five examples of IoT user interfaces in which manufacturers have moved beyond the typical screen to a more revolutionary UI approach.
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The Subtle Ways Your Digital Assistant Might Manipulate You
/TODAY WE GOOGLE for information, but in the future, we might not need to. Instead we may rely on our butler, namely the intelligent, voice-activated digital assistant on our smart phones, smart watches, or devices like Amazon’s Echo and Alphabet’s Home. Rather than searching the web, we’ll be able to ask our digital assistant how to remove the stain from our shirt. It’ll perform other perfunctory tasks, like adding groceries to our shopping list, checking the weather, sending a text, or ordering an Uber.
Read MoreWhat Snap’s Patent Activity Tells Us About Their Efforts In Facial Recognition, Payments, Wearables, And More
/We analyzed Snap's patents as the startup roams further into wearables, payments, computer vision, and video streaming.
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