Tag: Health
Reducing Healthcare Cost with Technology
by Samuel Piotr Emch on August 4, 2017 12:13 pm
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
Dr. Big Data: "How are you feeling today?"
by Dean Rauschenbusch on July 28, 2017 11:13 am
“Hello Doctor, I haven’t been feeling well for the past days. I think I am sick.” We have all said this sentence in one form or another far too often. If we don’t feel well and this feeling doesn’t pass or gets worse we often seek a doctor for medical help. But lets see about… Read more Dr. Big Data: "How are you feeling today?"
Big Data and healthcare
by Rodrigo Monroy on July 27, 2017 2:01 pm
Data is being generated at a rapidly growing pace. IBM claims that 90% of the data in the world has been generated in the last two years, or in other words, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day [1]. This data holds a lot of value for many different industries, as it contains… Read more Big Data and healthcare
I am an award-winning Swiss radio journalist working as a business and economics reporter for Switzerland’s national public radio and television network (SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen). As a trained economist, my area of expertise centers on business trends, especially in the ICT sector. I hold strong interests in the ongoing digital transformation. My recent work analyzes this digital shift and its multifaceted impact in the Swiss and global business realms.
