Tag: Healthcare

4 Ways AI Could Help Shape the Future of Medicine

 This article was originally posted on VentureBeat.com At times, progress occurs so quickly that it’s difficult to separate science fiction from real life. Just five decades ago, computers were massive, unwieldy machines running on punch cards and primitive circuits. Today, a single smartphone has more processing power than the computer used on the Apollo missions. AI has benefited greatly from this explosion in computing… Read more →

What’s Holding Back Healthcare Innovation in the 21st Century?

This article was originally posted on Huffingtonpost.com The much heralded convergence of healthcare and technology innovation has led to some incremental advancements, but it has not quite yielded major breakthroughs. While many other industries have been upended by new developments in hardware, software, and procedures, the healthcare industry seems to be progressing at a snail’s pace. Is the healthcare revolution fading… Read more →

Healthcare of Tomorrow: Five Promising Innovations from Around the Globe

Our world continues to be transformed by rapid advancements in science and technology. From our phones to our fashion, planes to plastics, and meals to media, groundbreaking research continually yields exciting innovations. The ongoing promise of these new developments, especially in the healthcare sector, illuminates a sometimes gloomy horizon. Dramatic improvements in healthcare over the last few centuries have carried… Read more →

Technology, Healthcare and Energy or Having a Real Impact Through Scalability

Innovation focused industries vary widely. Developing the next digital healthcare system has little in common with the next generation of wind power turbines. Social media entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley or New York speak a different language from biotechnology companies in Boston. However, the commonality between these varied areas is scalability: if you can reach a wide audience quickly, you will… Read more →