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Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

By Tom Raftery on May 29, 2015

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.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cognitive Computing, HANA, Health, medical research insights, molecular health, personalised medicine, personalized medicine, precision medicine, sap, sapphirenow, Watson

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2015

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, asthma, Blackberry, breast cancer, diabetes, ehealth, google, Health, iPhone, mobile, Open source, parkinsons, researchkit, transparency, windows

Big Data and analysis tools are facilitating huge advances in healthcare

Big Data and analysis tools are facilitating huge advances in healthcare

By Tom Raftery on July 28, 2014

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged baseline study, Cognitive Computing, ehealth, genomic analyzer, HANA, Health, IBM Watson, medical insights, medical technology, sap

Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, and the discovery of sound

Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, and the discovery of sound

By Tom Raftery on July 10, 2014

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. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Big Data, Cloud, Electricity 2.0, Health, Internet of Things, salesforce.com, smart grid, transportation, ubiquitous computing

Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update

Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update

By Tom Raftery on June 17, 2014

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. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EMR, genomics, Health, Healthcare, sap, SAP Hana, sapphirenow | 1 Response

Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry

Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry

By Tom Raftery on May 29, 2014

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, ehealth, HANA, Health, Healthcare, ibm, iWatch, Medicine, sap, Watson, wellpoint | 2 Responses

Sustainability, social media and big data

Sustainability, social media and big data

By Tom Raftery on November 1, 2012

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. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged american red cross, Big Data, Dell, Facebook, GE, grid iq insight, Health, Radian6, safety, sandy, Social Media, Sustainability, Twitter

My steady progress

My steady progress

By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 1, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Health | 1 Response

Scary Technology (#1) - Tech that should irk you

Scary Technology (#1) – Tech that should irk you

By Brian Sommer on October 14, 2010

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………

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Data mining, Health, health data, Insurance, Privacy, Social network

Update on Vinnie Mirchandani, @dealarchitect

Update on Vinnie Mirchandani, @dealarchitect

By Zoli Erdos on October 8, 2010

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, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged dealarchitect, Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, family, Health, Personal, Vinnie Mirchandani | 6 Responses

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