Google taps fitness tracker market with $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit
Google will buy Fitbit Inc for US$2.1 billion, as the biggest Web search company looks to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smart watches.
Google will buy Fitbit Inc for US$2.1 billion, as the biggest Web search company looks to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smart watches.
Check Point has warned that medical devices used by major healthcare providers could have gaping security holes, with researchers at the security firm revealing they were able to easily hack an ultrasound machine and retrieve and alter records stored on it.
US pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft have entered a seven-year agreement to research and develop new methods of delivering healthcare services through digital devices.
By applying predictive analytics and machine learning techniques to patient data and real-time data from operating theatres the University of Iowa Hospital in the US managed to reduce the incidence of wound infections acquired during surgery by 74 percent.
Most people don't know it but there is a multi-billion dollar industry that collects healthcare information, strips it of basic personal identifiers such as name, address and Social Security Number, and then sells it off to researchers, drug developers, marketers and others.
A major cyberattack on Singapore's government health database stole the personal information of about 1.5 million people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the government said on Friday.
Nelson Marlborough Health has become the second South Island district health board (DHB) to move onto the South Island Patient Administration Care System (SI PICS) that will integrate patient information systems across all South Island DHBs.
North Shore Hospital and Waitakere Hospital have rolled out a smartphone messaging service developed by Auckland-based Oncall Systems Limited.
New Zealand’s health minister, Jonathan Coleman, has launched a project that will seek to establish if tracking trends on social media and using ‘unconventional data’ can help predict outbreaks and further improve responses to epidemics.
New Zealand technology research firm, Teck Labs, has developed an iPhone and iPad app, named Betty, that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to help dairy farmers diagnose health problems with their herd.
Christchurch based ARANZ Medical, a specialist in 3D scanning and informatics for the healthcare sector, has won the Private Sector Excellence Award at the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) Global ICT Excellence Awards 2016.
The Ministry of Health has scrapped it National Health IT Board, replacing it with a Digital Advisory Board.
Digital health start-up iPug, a company founded in Australia but now based in San Francisco, has announced that a group of angel investors led by Hamilton-based property developer and investor, Zane Beckett, provided it with seed capital and Series A funding.
Wellington-based medical software company, Volpara Solutions, has launched VolparaEnterprise, running in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The company says the software helps breast imaging providers deliver high quality, personalised breast screening, providing “real-time quality assurance and performance monitoring through dynamic, interactive dashboards.”
Patients of GPs in Wellington’s Compass Primary Health Organisation (PHO) are the first to get to secure access to their health records via their mobile phones.