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IBM partners with Delos to build healthier living spaces

IBM announced earlier this month it is collaborating with wellness and technology firm Delos to adopt IBM Cloud and cognitive technologies to speed the discovery of new insights in health and wellness and their connections to the design of indoor spaces. Designed to be a multi-year collaboration, Delos...

Vodafone provides connectivity for medical asset tracking

As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...

Vodafone connectivity enables IoT health care, public safety

CSL, an "internet of things" and machine-to-machine solutions company with a footprint in the fire and security industry, selected Vodafone to bolster the connectivity of its more than 2,800 alarm installers. CSL became a Vodafone partner in 1996, as it looked "scale resilience of the...

AT&T on smart hospitals: challenges and benefits of health care IoT

Smart hospitals, AT&T and IoT Nadia Morris, head of innovation at the AT&T Connected Health Foundry in Houston, presided over a session titled “Connecting smart hospitals with care at home” at this year’s TMForum Innovation InFocus conference. Morris highlighted problems in the health care industry,...

SME´s need to take precaution as health data breaches increase – an opportunity to companies protecting data

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. However, as people in the law enforcement and companies offering data security solutions witness...

Developing a health care IoT solution to monitor vaccine temperatures

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 their potency, according to a case study provided by IoT One. Applying IoT technology to vaccine storage...

How IoT is expected to transform the insurance industry

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 insurers are already offering a new type of insurance, usage-based insurance (UBI), that uses IoT...

Health care IoT: reducing heart disease readmission

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 better patient care and reduce costly readmissions for patients with ischemic heart disease, according to...

Google parent and Sanofi partner on connected diabetes management

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 platform will be the goal of Onduo, the joint digital healthcare company formed by French...

Verizon connects wellness kiosk, offers smart healthcare for free

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 even the grocery store. One of those machines, with the help of Verizon Wireless's network, has...

AT&T’s Nadia Morris discusses barriers to cancer research

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 about overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research. Panel member Nadia Morris, head of innovation...

AT&T’s IoT win, Huawei’s smart city plan … 5 things to know today

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 as its network provider. The company is preparing to launch a product called bioflux, which...

Pokémon Go – A health risk and danger to digital health progress?

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 of real health benefits. Some commentators and articles even claim the game to be...

Nestlé and Samsung team up on new IoT health platform

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 maturing, an increasing number of collaborations between technology vendors and industrial actors across multiple vertical...

AT&T makes connected health a priority

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 Medical Center in Houston. AT&T uses its foundries to provide innovation centers dedicated to particular...

Nokia closes $190 million Withings acquisition

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 deal. The result is Nokia's new Digital Health business unit, which "combines the talented employees from Withings...

Nokia to buy Withings

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 and fitness. "With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things...

Industrial Internet of Things health care applications

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 insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...

Samsung targets healthcare with new chip

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 not been able to process the information they collect from their human hosts. Sensors...

IoT enabling the elderly and disabled

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" as a way to help improve quality of life for the elderly and disabled. Company owner...

Healthy market: telemedicine takes off for carriers and their partners

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 and scalable. Tablets and smartphones are facilitating doctor-patient communication and helping to reduce healthcare...