Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine
Personalised medicine is where a patient’s DNA is sequenced, as is the DNA of their tumour (in the case of cancer), and an individualised treatment, specific to the genotype of their cancer is designed and applied.
Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research
Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]
Big Data and analysis tools are facilitating huge advances in healthcare
As we noted recently here on GreenMonk, technology is revolutionising the healthcare industry, and the pace of change is astounding with new products and services being announced daily. We were recently given a demonstration of two products currently being developed by SAP (Genomic Analyzer, and Medical Insights), and they are very impressive products. The Genomic […]
Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, and the discovery of sound
I had a really interesting, wide-ranging, conversation with SalesForce’s VP for Strategic Research, Peter Coffee the other day. A lot of our conversation revolved around how recent changes in the Internet of Things space, in ubiquitous computing, and in Big Data and analytics area are enabling profound effects on how we interact with the world. […]
Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update
As noted here recently, technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry. And that was brought home to us forcefully when we attended SAP’s 2014 Sapphirenow conference last week. I had fifteen meetings scheduled at the event, and while there wasn’t much mention of healthcare during the keynotes, seven of my fifteen meetings were healthcare related. […]
Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry
Healthcare is changing. Recent advances in technology are completely revolutionising how we approach the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. And this is just the beginning of what will be a technological revolution in healthcare. Smartphone use is growing at an enormous pace. They now account for 87% of the total mobile handsets in the […]
Sustainability, social media and big data
The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day. […]
My steady progress
I went to my neurologist this week and he compared his notes from my first visit in October to updated tests he performed and his eyes gleamed over and over. Good progress. Come back and see me end of January. I went to my speech therapist (more cognitive thinking than speech – she gave me […]
Scary Technology (#1) – Tech that should irk you
Halloween is just around the corner and there’s some scary technology out there. In this first of three posts, see how insidious some of this activity really is………
Update on Vinnie Mirchandani, @dealarchitect
If you’re on Twitter and even remotely interested in Enterprise Software, chances are you saw disturbing news yesterday, about our friend @dealarchitect being taken to hospital yesterday, right in the middle of a speaking engagement. Lack of information is always scary – from what we heard, it appeared that Vinnie collapsed, was rushed to hospital, […]
