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Cellphone Data Can Track Infectious Diseases

Tracking mobile phone data is often associated with privacy issues, but these vast datasets could be the key to understanding how infectious diseases are spread seasonally, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Princeton University and Harvard University researchers used anonymous mobile phone records for more than 15 million people to track the spread of rubella in Kenya and were able to quantitatively show for the first time that mobile phone data can predict seasonal disease patterns. Read more...

NHS Open to Global Innovation: Healthcare Leaders Launch Search for Best New Ideas from Around the World

A worldwide call has been launched for innovators to partner with local health and care systems in trialling new technologies, digital services and other innovations with the potential to deliver big benefits to patients and taxpayers alike. Read more...

Bayer Grants4Apps® Accelerator: Submissions Open for Digital Health Startups

The Grants4Apps® Accelerator is a mentoring program for digital health startups taking place in Berlin. This year's batch with five startups runs from August 10th until December 4th, 2015. The program offers mentoring by entrepreneurs and Bayer experts, office space for 100 days at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals headquarters, and funding of 50,000€. Read more...

Apple Introduces ResearchKit, Giving Medical Researchers the Tools to Revolutionize Medical Studies

Apple® has announced ResearchKit™, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and scientists gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone® apps. Read more...

Hospital Ratings on Social Media Appear to Reflect Quality of Care

Social media has become an important way for institutions to communicate - both sending messages and receiving feedback - with clients and with the general public. Hospitals and other health care organizations use social media for a variety of purposes, but there has been little investigation of whether hospitals ratings that patients and other consumers submit via social media accurately reflect patient satisfaction or the quality of care delivered. Read more...

iManageCancer Survey: Your Opinion Counts

Would you like to contribute to the future of cancer treatment in technology? iManageCancer project is trying to find out how mobile healthcare (mHealth) and serious games might help people with chronic illnesses and in particular cancer. Significant improvements due to cancer research have led to more cancer patients being cured, and very many more enabled to live with their condition. Read more...

Xsens Transforms 3D Human Motion Capture into Wearable Technology

A technology best known for bringing animated characters to life in games and films is changing how human movement is studied in research and industry. The new MVN Biomech system from Dutch technology innovator Xsens transforms 3D human motion tracking into a wearable technology that can be used on production lines, sports fields, in vehicles and aircraft, in the home or any location where human body movement needs to be analysed with high accuracy. Read more...

Human Insights Inspire Solutions for Household Robots

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Technologies Research Center, Berkeley. Read more...

Metabolomic Discoveries Launches Personalized Metabolomics Service Kenkodo through Crowdfunding Platform Indiegogo

German biotech company Metabolomic Discoveries announced the launch of personalized metabolomics tool Kenkodo. Through a smartphone app and sampling kit, users will soon be able to improve their well­being. Kenkodo is available through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. This product offers people the possibility to track and understand the influence of factors, such as nutrition, sports and stress on their metabolism. Read more...

Study Finds Texting May Be more Suitable than Apps in Treatment of Mental Illness

Texting may be a more suitable treatment aid for those with mental illness than mobile applications. This is the key finding of a new study led by researchers from Clemson University in collaboration with researchers from Indiana University and the Centerstone Research Institute. The study was published in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Read more...

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