BROWSING: Healthcare

The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial transformation and technological leadership across the region. As part of two separate proposals, it has...

Digital health wearables unit returned to Withings co-founder as Nokia focuses on B2B In 2016 Nokia Technologies spent $190 million to acquire consumer-facing health wearables firm Withings. After standing up a digital health business unit, Nokia has now sold the company back to Withings co-founder...

Artificial intelligence (AI) will enable earlier diagnosis of diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and dementia, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said in a speech on industrial strategy at Jodrell Bank, the UK centre for physics, astro-physics and astronomy, in Manchester. In the latest in...

Nokia says move reflects focus on business-to-business and licensing activities In May 2016, Finnish network infrastructure vendor Nokia spent $190 million to acquire Withings, a maker of connected devices focused on consumer health care. After announcing in February an internal review of its digital health...

In the face of rising political disruption, the European Commission (EC) has in recent weeks redoubled its innovation schedule with new commitments to artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare applications. Here, we pick five of its best Horizon 2020 projects, covering everything from drone-mounted...

The European Commission (EC) has called for both national governments and private enterprises to contribute to the region’s digital transformation programme from 2021. If new finances are not secured from regional administrations and private sources, the progress the region has made with data privacy...

The public sector in Europe will come to depend on blockchain technology. This was the claim by the European Commission (EC) as it announced major cross-border deals on blockchain and digital healthcare to address challenges of fragmentation and interoperability, accelerate the launch of new...

IoT spans from consumer apps such as smart homes, connected cars and wearables, to industrial apps covering energy systems, agriculture, mining, transportation, healthcare and more. This complimentary poster maps the various wireless protocols being used and evaluated to build out the IoT infrastructure.

Intel's new IoT offering provides connectivity to health care metrics like blood pressure, glucose monitors and pulse oximeters Firming up vertical focus, Intel launched its Health Application Platform, dubbed Intel HAP, which is an application software platform that can be used by remote health care...

Leveraging IoT health care tools cuts provider costs while improving patient outcomes Adoption of IoT health care solutions benefits industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering and managing patients. IoT is offering new tools as well as...

Bringing the IoT to health care one use case at a time While vaccines save millions of lives each year about 1.5 million children die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases, according to the World Health Organization. Some factors that contribute to the availability of vaccines...

Nokia is expanding its internet of things business with a consulting service that it says will help network operators analyze opportunities in nine different verticals: the connected car, healthcare, logistics and transport, smart cities, utilities, agriculture, retail, smart homes and buildings, and connected industry...

Vodafone highlighted that smart devices, cloud-based services and IoT can lead to more effective healthcare U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone claims that new connected solutions based around the internet of things (IoT) will help people to follow their medical treatment programs more closely. This is the main...

Nokia's transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history Nokia’s transformation from industry laggard to technology leader over the past 5 years is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history.  While traveling across Europe...

Wisepill Technologies has developed smart pillboxes to provide real-time medication management solutions Aeris, an U.S.-based provider of end-to-end M2M communications and IoT service provider and Wisepill Technologies, a South African provider of medication adherence management solutions, have announced a cooperation agreement to help pharmaceutical businesses...

Herbert E. Dwyer, COO/GM at Nanmac Corporation, gave a presentation titled “Tackling the Need for Better Temperature Sensors in Medical Devices” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference. Sensors are becoming increasingly common in healthcare. Fueled by aging baby boomers, spikes in chronic diseases and...

Which industries will be transformed the most by the internet of things? Not computing, communication, or even consumer devices, according to the analysts at IHS Markit. Manufacturing and heavy industry will see more connected devices than any other part of the economy, according to...

Telefonica CTO talks NB-IoT, LTE-M, smart city deployments, and notes, "5G will be triggered by IoT SHANGHAI--Spanish telecoms group Telefonica is seeing growing opportunities in a number of specific IoT uses cases in the domestic market including smart cities and e-health, among others, the operator’s...

The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the health care industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering healthcare solutions. IoT is offering new tools as well as efficiencies that make up an integrated health care system...

Microsoft emerges as major healthcare IoT provider As healthcare providers search for ways to cut costs, the internet of things is creating new ways to monitor and maintain equipment and reduce unnecessary interactions between caregivers and patients. Microsoft is emerging as an important player in...

German firm Locate Solutions uses different sensors and relies on Vodafone for connectivity. German location solutions provider Locate Solutions is working with Vodafone to provide a service targeting Europe’s aging population. “Autonomous and independent living will be a key area of growth for us,” said...

Seth Feder, Director of Information Management and Technology at the Dell Medical School (University of Texas), provides insight on the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the healthcare sector during a presentation at the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas. https://youtu.be/wd7MGLZE7ps Seth Feder is a...

Swedish vendor signed the health care IoT deal with AstraZeneca, China’s Wuxi national Hi-Tech District and China Mobile Group Jiangsu. Ericsson signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Wuxi national Hi-Tech District, China Mobile Group Jiangsu and AstraZeneca to partner on...

Submission deadline for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year nominations extended to Sunday, March 26, 2017. Submit your nomination today for recognition as an IIoT or 5G Innovator, Industrialist of the year. Selections will be announced at the Enterprise IoT Summit 2017 on Tuesday,...