Simprints identifies cloud as foundation for biometrics-led healthcare
Fingerprint scanners lie at the heart of the non-profit organization’s mission to help NGOs and health agencies deliver vital services to recipients with no formal ID.
Archive: Healthcare transformation
Digital twins for personalized medicine - a critical assessment
Digital twins are amongst the most hyped technologies in recent years. It's time for a critical look at the possibilities - and drawbacks - of digital twins for modern medicine.
Precision medicine and AI - data problems ahead
The promise of personalized medicine has sparked a proliferation of AI hype. But the obstacles AI faces in the healthcare industry are daunting. Look no further than data silos - and the factors that spawned them.
NHS CIO turned innovation leader brings wellbeing to Boots
Making people healthy will help both pharmaceutical retailer Boots and the NHS says Richard Corbridge
Dreamforce 2019 - HMSA cures never-ending IT project syndrome with unified Salesforce platform shift
HMSA has digitally transformed in order to break out of the habit of never-ending IT projects.
Dreamforce 2019 - Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts pays off technical debt with Salesforce transformation program
The health insurance provider has overhauled its approach to buying and deploying tech and in the process become a cloud convert.
Dreamforce 2019 - The Brain Tumour Charity turns to personalization to improve patient experience
The UK-based non-profit has put Salesforce’s Interaction Studio to work on delivering relevant information to patients and their families at every stage of their cancer journeys.
Data and the allure of the enterprise wellness market drive Google's $2.1 billion Fitbit grab, but privacy concerns won't be healthy
Google wants to buy Fitbit, but is it a safe custodian of healthcare data from millions of consumers?
Supercomputing and cancer research - is computational biology useful yet?
What can you do with 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Floating-point calculations per second (EXAflops)? Simulate nuclear weapons? Yes. Cure cancer? Maybe...
Best Buy's digital health ambition could be a prescription for a disruptive growth opportunity
Best Buy wants to help disrupt the US healthcare service provision market with a digital play that's hugely ambitious.
Apple's wearables health sets the pace for Fitbit's sickly prognosis
While Apple's push into wearables is a success, Fitbit's currently looking less healthy. Can it stage a recovery?
Significant barriers to health data sharing and collaboration remain even with blockchain touted as catalyst
Blockchain as the catalyst for a healthcare data market? Maybe, but...
What can enterprise software learn from genomic research?
Advances in genomic research have changed our view of the human genome. Promising health care advances are in the works, but we'll need massive computing power to see this through. Will enterprise software as we know it change as a result?