By TANYA SNYDER | Sept 27, 2017 After experiencing two seizures while behind the wheel—first plowing her car into the side of a drugstore and then, less than a year later, into a stone wall—Connie Godby gave up driving for good late last year. Even when she can control her seizures, vestiges of a [...]
By TRAVIS GOOD | Oct 3, 2017 This may sound strange in the world we inhabit—helping hospitals modernize healthcare by moving to digital technology—but when it comes to digital health transformation, there is too much emphasis on the technology itself and not enough on the people we are trying to serve. Most people think digital health transformation [...]
By Jennifer Henderson | Sept. 27, 2017 Analytics 4 Life – a medical device company that is based in Toronto but houses its U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park – has raised $25 million in a Series B financing. The company is focused on using artificial intelligence to develop solutions for improving health care. Its [...]
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | Sept 25, 2017 (CNN)A charming three-story home trimmed in white sits at the corner of 10th and Center streets on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta. From the outside, the 5,000-square-foot abode appears just like any other home, but inside, Georgia Tech researchers are testing and developing [...]
By Yiting Sun | Sept 14, 2017 When Gang Xu, a 46-year-old Beijing resident, needs to communicate with his Canadian tenant about rent payments or electricity bills, he opens an app called iFlytek Input in his smartphone and taps an icon that looks like a microphone, and then begins talking. The software turns his Chinese [...]
By Dr. Bertalan Mesko | Sept 22, 2017 Los Angeles-based appliedVR offers patients a non-drug escape route out of pain or panic through virtual reality. Their Bear Blast app has been shown to reduce pain by 24% among hospitalized patients at their most important partner, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The company is working with other top ranked hospitals [...]
