Samuel Piotr Emch

Reducing Healthcare Cost with Technology

The cost of healthcare worldwide is constantly rising. The United Nations World Health Organisations (WHO) calculates an increase in the cost of healthcare by 4.6 percent every year. This means by 2020, the world will spend 10 trillion dollars on healthcare annually. That is more than half of the GDP of the US. In many… Read more Reducing Healthcare Cost with Technology

Precious Loot: Healthcare Data

In February 2015, the US health insurance Anthem Blue Cross announced the biggest data breach in the healthcare sector, even to this day. [1] Almost 80 million company records had been stolen. The hackers gained access to highly sensitive data like Social Security Numbers, birthdates and addresses. The Anthem case represents the tenacity that hackers… Read more Precious Loot: Healthcare Data

10,000 Steps to IoT in Health Care

I see many people on campus with electronic wristbands from Fitbit, Polar, Samsung, Garmin, the Apple Watch, or something similar. A commonly held  goal for people with such a fitness gadget is to get the step count over 10,000 daily. But these electronic wristbands have multiple functions other than just being a step counter. The… Read more 10,000 Steps to IoT in Health Care

Self-driving Cars - Wow! But also like dang.

Self-driving cars have the capacity to revolutionize the car industry but also everything related to vehicle transportation. Sure, the current expectations are high – autonomous vehicles are on the peak of the “hype cycle” as the information technology research company Gardner defines it. Recent technological development has allowed significant advancements in self-driving technologies. Neural networks… Read more Self-driving Cars - Wow! But also like dang.

Online Voting: Political Science Fiction

  Enable people to vote online (e-voting) can potentially increase the voter base. Security challenges are preventing states from implementing e-voting. E-voting has to be verifiable for the individual (voter) and universally (ballot). Casting votes online for big scale political elections and votes is still far away.   “Online voting will come” says Chris Cruz,… Read more Online Voting: Political Science Fiction