Google powers up AI, machine learning accelerator for healthcare

With the mandate of fostering an ecosystem of applied machine learning startups, Google on Wednesday revealed the first four companies to join its Launchpad Studio and said this initial track is aimed squarely at healthcare and biotech.

Big data and the future of healthcare

“Big Data” has been a big buzzword for the past several years, but organizations weren’t really sure how to tackle it. It’s really been in the past two years that these organizations have been able to use this data to find new insights to improve or make actionable changes.

Microsoft announces a series of healthcare initiatives

Microsoft this week announced several new healthcare-related initiatives and solutions for industry partners and organizations to apply artificial intelligence in multiple areas of care, along with a new partnership with a major hospital.

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.

FDA approves the first pill that can alert your doctor when you swallow it

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pill embedded with a sensor that can alert a patient’s physician or caregiver when it’s been ingested, the agency announced on Monday.

IBM Watson, FDA to explore blockchain for secure patient data exchange

IBM Watson Health is collaborating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a research initiative aimed at defining a secure, efficient and scalable exchange of health data using blockchain technology.

NIH research program will tap Fitbit data

The Scripps Translational Science Institute will be using Fitbit devices for part of the All of Us research program, a National Institutes of Health project through which researchers are looking into how individual characteristics can affect health and disease treatment.

8 reasons why telehealth is gaining momentum right now

Thanks to some new bills in Congress, and more in the works, the implementation of telehealth programs in an array of clinical settings has taken off recently.