Event Report: Google Cloud Industries Analyst Day
Event Report: Google Cloud Industries Analyst Day Google Cloud Has Hired A Brain Trust Of Industry Vertical Leaders On March 31st, 2021, Google Cloud hosted an industry vertical analyst roundtable. Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, opened up the day with a warm introduction on the role industries will play in the growth of Google Cloud. […]
How To Protect Healthcare IoT Devices In A Zero Trust World
Healthcare executives say privacy concerns (59%), legacy system integration (55%) and security concerns (54%) are the top three barriers holding back Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in healthcare organizations today according to the Accenture 2017 Internet of Health Things Survey. Over 100M healthcare IoT devices are installed worldwide today, growing to 161M by 2020, attaining […]
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 […]
News Analysis: New #IBMWatson Business Group Heralds The Commercialization Of Cognitive Computing. Ready For Augmented Mentality?
IBM Launches New Business Group In New York’s Silicon Alley On January 9th, 2014, on top of 51 Astor Place (i.e. World Trade Center Building 4), IBM CEO Ginny Rommety and long time veteran, but newly minted, IBM Watson Group Senior Vice President Michael Rhodin, announced IBM’s commitment to putting an entire business unit around […]
Unhealthy healthcare organisations
Or the act of hammering a round peg into a square hole without even knowing it. To drive the flow, to enhance the value creation the creator and maintainer of the product must be connected to the user so she/he can adjust, tweak, change and create more according to what the market wants. When the […]
Things are changing fast in medicine, thanks to mobile.
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Things are changing fast in medicine, thanks to mobile. Wow – this is an amazing video on just how much smartphones can help reduce costs, increase healthcare efficiency and improve patient well-being and outcomes. We may not be fully there yet in terms of […]
The Internet of Things
In a world of smartphones, mifi mobile hot spots, wifi hot spots and broadband home Internet most of us live an always connected life. Smartphones are extending this connectivity around the world and into place where it would have taken…
Hand washing, IT and Flow Technology
One day in May 1847 at the First Obstetrical Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital Ignaz Semmelweis instituted washing hands between autopsy work and the examination of patients using a chlorinated solution, and almost immediately maternal mortality rate due to puerperal fever was reduced with 90%. The sad part was that even with proven success […]
Technology and my first week home.
On October 7 while presenting in Vail, CO, I thought I had an attack of altitude sickness (not unusual me coming from sea level in Florida). The medics disagreed and had me checked into the Swedish Medical Center in Denver for 2 weeks. Last week was my first one home, and I tried to make […]
