Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
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The 5 most exciting innovations in digital health right now
The current state of the health sector is in flux, possibly more than ever before, due to changing consumer needs and expectations, ...
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4 ways to respond to vaccine skeptics on social media
For most of the 20th century, more than 60,000 people died in the US from polio, diphtheria, and small pox each year. In ...
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7 digital health trends that will dominate the globe in 2021
Digital health has the potential to vastly improve healthcare services, but up until recently, it hasn’t been much of a ...
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Why countries need to work together to bring digital health into the future
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the speed and scale of adoption of digital health technologies in a way that’s ...
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Facebook's chief AI scientist says GPT-3 is 'not very good' as a dialog system
A new study on GPT-3's potential uses in healthcare suggests some expectations for the model are wholly realistic.
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Nvidia is building the UK's fastest supercomputer to use for AI research in healthcare
Nvidia says the Cambridge-1 will deliver 400 petaflops of AI performance, making it one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. ...
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Which face masks actually work against COVID-19?
Facemasks have become big drivers of e-commerce. In August, Etsy’s quarterly earnings report showed mask sales on the ...
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8 developer roles that are in high demand in healthcare
With the demand for tech skills continuously growing across the board, there’s no shortage of new domains where software ...
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What healthtech founders need to know about scaling in Europe
Healthtech founders — some of whom participated in the X-Europe program run by TNW and four other partners — shared their ...
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How IoT revolutionized medical care during the pandemic
Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented situation. It even gave birth ...
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The pandemic has changed your brain — here’s how to overcome that
Whether you have contracted COVID-19 or not, your brain is likely to have changed over the past few months. The virus itself ...
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COVID-19 canceled doctors' office visits — these startups are bringing the doctor to you
What do you do when you can’t go to the doctor’s office? As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people around the world ...
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Can a robot decide my medical treatment?
In an attempt to manage soaring health care costs, some government officials and health care companies are turning to algorithms ...
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Digital psychotherapy is now more accessible, thanks to data-driven healthcare tools
Over the past decade, technology has transformed the way we live. The emergence and advancement of personal devices, data ...
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Computer vision is transforming healthcare with rapid cell counting and patient identification
AI in healthcare has been a hot topic for years and with advances in deep learning, it’s being successfully implemented ...
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VCs spent a record €8.2B in Europe in Q1 2020 — but coronavirus dampens future expectations
Businesses in Europe received a record amount of cash from venture capital investors during the first three months of 2020. ...
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MIT's AI-powered device lets doctors monitor coronavirus patients remotely
A new device that uses AI to monitor coronavirus symptoms is helping doctors treat patients beyond the reach of infection ...
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3 stretch routines for remote workers with carpal tunnel symptoms
Are you suffering from pain, numbness, and tingling in your hands and arms? If so, you may have carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Claims that AI detects coronavirus in X-rays aren't convincing medical experts
Tech firms are making bold claims that AI detects coronavirus, but the healthcare professionals have doubts about the benefits ...
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Facial recognition and AI will invade public privacy — but it can be done ethically
We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost any information we need. With the emergence of new technology ...
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Alibaba's new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy
Chinese technology giant Alibaba recently developed an AI system for diagnosing the COVID-19 (coronavirus). Alibaba's ...
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Trust issues loom large over Google's ambitious healthcare plans
Google's healthcare deal with Ascension has rightly attracted a lot of scrutiny, and now the search giant has stepped in ...
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MIT algorithm discovers antibiotic that can fight drug-resistant diseases
A deep learning algorithm has discovered new antibiotics that can treat drug-resistant diseases by killing 35 powerful bacteria ...
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Data sharing is key to an AI-driven medical revolution
It is not often that one witnesses a transformational advance in medicine. But the application of artificial intelligence ...
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What AI analysis of placentas can teach us about childbirth and health
Artificial Intelligence may be one of the greatest technologies developed by humans. The quest for imitating human intelligence ...
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Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more personalized
Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since it was in its blooming stages in the 1940s. It was a time when the direct ...
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How healthcare apps are helping drug users transition from addiction to recovery
As a society, we are faced with many challenges, and it’s no secret that one of the more prevalent is that of substance ...
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Google confirms plans for a search tool that can analyze millions of health records
Google partners with Ascension to give it access to personal health datasets that can be used to develop AI-based tools for ...
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Google wants to create the ultimate medical record search tool for doctors
Google Health CEO outlines plans to make it easier for doctors to search medical records, and improve the quality of health-focused ...
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Facebook wants to get into healthcare. What could possibly go wrong?
Facebook wants to remind you to see a doctor. It's working on a suite of "Preventative Health" features designed to help ...
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Over 13.7M US medical test records found unsecured on servers
Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure ...
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Hackers are stealing personal medical data to impersonate your doctor
When it comes to health, prevention is the best cure. Now it's becoming apparent it is time to extend this philosophy to ...
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Elvie's sleek tech for new mothers is breaking taboos in women's health
Five years ago, funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now it's set to see a huge increase ...
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How AI, blockchain, and wearables are changing the face of healthcare
Several major classes of technology stand a good chance of changing healthcare as we know it. Home healthcare, in particular, ...
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Researchers develop a new way to track blood pressure... with selfies?
A team of researchers in Canada and China are working on a revolutionary new way to track blood pressure: a selfie. The ...
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Apple, Google, and Microsoft partner to provide digital access to patients' health records
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft partner with health insurers and hospitals for providing consumers with easier access ...
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UK Alexa users can now get answers to medical questions right from the NHS
The NHS teams up with Amazon's Alexa digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the service's ...
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Researchers find worrying security vulnerability in GE Healthcare anesthesia machines
Our health – and yes, our lives – are in the hands of researchers and vendors.
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The frontline of the abortion battle isn't in Alabama, it's online
As the legislative noose draws tighter around women’s necks, it’s centuries-old technology, or modern adaptation of it ...
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Africa's mobile-based healthcare initiatives need regulatory and community support - not just funding
As a community health worker tasked with tracking infant vaccinations in Kenya, Collince Oluoch was overwhelmed by ...
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Healthcare has a massive cybersecurity problem, and we're not doing enough to fix it.
Not long ago, it was reasonable to think that financial businesses would be the most prominent and most profitable targets ...
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The best use of body hacking might be in hospitals
Reminders of the fragility of our bodies are unavoidable. You just have to hope that your next injury won’t be too painful ...
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Why I’m elated Apple Watch’s ECG feature is now available in Europe
The Apple Watch Series 4 has an exciting feature: a ECG reader. And, even better, it's now available in 19 European countries ...
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How the Vatican approaches gene editing, life extension, and stem cell research
The Vatican might not be a place where you’d normally expect to hear about cutting-edge scientific research, but that was ...
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Philips devs are coding algorithms that help detect cancer accurately
One in three people are expected to develop cancer during their lifetime. With the help of AI-based algorithms, pathologists ...
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3 ways AI will improve healthcare in 2019
In a recent piece, I explained why AI’s complexity shouldn’t be a deterrent for its adoption. In fact, I went as far ...
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Why Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind
In the 1800s, the rise of mass print was both blamed for an increase in eye problems and was responsible for dramatizing ...
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Philips will challenge tech giants to bring blockchain to healthcare
Data breaches are among the most damaging security incidents, and they happen everywhere. What makes the healthcare industry ...
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We were promised digitized health care... what’s the delay?
The issues faced by many in the healthcare industry when it comes to digitization are vast, not only in the UK and Europe ...
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7 surprising companies where you can work on cutting-edge AI technology
While automation slowly eats away at human jobs, the demand for AI talent continues to grow at an accelerating pace. Here ...
