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Contact tracing apps: monitoring public health
Governments are leveraging new contact tracing efforts, which monitor when users come into contact with each other, to slow the spread of COVID-19.

How COVID-19 will impact the future of healthcare IT
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the healthcare sector. It is also fair to say that it has already largely reshaped the healthcare sector.

Why we must prioritise Medical Device Security
For the past twenty years, medical testing has been mostly centralised in laboratories. Whether private or hospital-based, these labs could process dozens of different tests on thousands of samples every day. Automation and robotics provided rapid...

The Future of Telehealth
Telehealth has been around for nearly 150 years, but until recently, it has primarily been leveraged by those, isolated from the rest of the world, by the measure of geography. Researchers in Antarctica and Australians living on remote cattle...

Why diagnostic telehealth must be a custom software solution
The common use-case for telehealth is a video conference consultation between a doctor and a patient. The patient is either in their home or at a clinic. The patient uses a PC, a phone, or a tablet for the call and generic software such as Skype or...

Could Wearable Tech Mean the End of the Smartphones?
If you ask people which technology they couldn't live without, they would almost all say their smartphone. When the iPhone first came out in 2007, people were amazed by the sheer computational power they could carry around in their pockets and the...

IoT & AI Disrupts Hospitality
The IoT Economy is set to top $11.1 trillion per year by 2025, according to McKinsey. The technology is set to add value to all types of industries from factories to retail to smart city management.In the hospitality industry, beyond these broader...

Chatbots, AI and IoT: Are bots the new user interface for the smart home?
The rise of virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Home and other voice user interfaces has captured the imagination of the world over the past few years. More and more, we are interacting with connected Internet of Things devices using our...

How Biometrics Are Replacing Passwords
Our bodies have replaced traditional passwords as a means of identification. Without even realizing it, consumers are already using biometric identification technology every day. The iPhone X brought mass market, high quality, facial recognition to...

How Blockchain Boosts Data Integrity in Healthcare
How Blockchain Boosts Data Integrity in Healthcare When everyone from your accountant to your barista seems to be buying into Bitcoin, it’s easy for the conversation about blockchain technology to be reduced to discussions about cryptocurrency. But...

Telehealth Services Put Specialists at Patients’ Fingertips
Visit ATA18, Chicago, this week to see the Visionflex ProEX Telehealth Hub Telehealth Services Put Specialists at Patients’ Fingertips For patients in rural and remote locations, frequent trips to the doctor’s office aren’t practical, particularly...

IoT Makes a Splash at SXSW 2018
IoT Makes a Splash at South by Southwest We’re living at a moment when the technology industry has come under considerable scrutiny, and the internet of things is no different. Not long ago, we marveled that Alexa could understand us, but today we...