Scripps rolls out Apple ResearchKit app to predict risk of heart disease

The Scripps Research Institute on Wednesday announced a new smartphone app that can calculate a user’s risk of heart disease.

Innovative Digital Health Tools Offer ‘Seamless’ Patient Experience

The Nemours App for Asthma is the first product from Nemours’s Center for Health Delivery Innovation, released as part of a new digital health strategy that provides all digital assets on a single platform for users.

Apple COO Jeff Williams on tech and health care: ‘we can’t think of anything more significant’

Apple COO Jeff Williams addressed a crowd in Taiwan at partner company TSMC’s 30th-anniversary celebration.

AI system can spot breast lesions at risk of being cancerous

Boston, Oct 17 (PTI) Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed an artificial intellince (AI) system that can identify which breast lesions are likely to become cancerous – potentially reducing unnecessary surgeries.

Now OPD on smartphones to make life easy for medicos, patients

Patients from far off places in the country and abroad can now consult specific doctors in the national capital using their smartphones.

New smart bracelet can tell when you get pregnant

Scientists have developed a smart bracelet that can not only identify the best time of the month for a woman to try for a baby but also alert when the user gets pregnant an advance that could make traditional home pregnancy test obsolete.

Microsoft opens AI-based healthcare department

Microsoft has set up a new healthcare department at its Cambridge research facility, which will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to aid in medical research and treatment of patients. The tech giant has created the division as part of its commitment to “transform healthcare” using technologies such as machine learning and Cloud computing, The Telegraph reported late on Sunday.

Here is Apple’s smart plan for digital health

I’ve been talking about Apple’s interest in digital health for years. Bit by bit my expectations on this are proving correct, with Apple developing Health, Activity, Care Kit, Research Kit, advanced biometric sensors and apps for wheelchair users, swimming and even breathing.

New smartphone attachment can detect cancer

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a portable sensor that uses a smartphone’s camera to detect a biological indicator for several types of cancers with 99% accuracy, yielding laboratory quality results.

Apple vs. Microsoft 3.0: The quest for electronic medical record supremacy?

The current state of healthcare delivery, and specifically electronic medical records (EMR), is reminiscent of the state of office productivity software in the business world during the ’90s.