Tag: Healthcare

Entrepreneurship is The Future of Healthcare

Entrepreneurship is tough. You have a little bit of craziness to be an entrepreneur. But entrepreneurship in healthcare, some would consider that suicide. The industry is known as extremely slow to adopt innovation, ruled by hundreds of regulations, with many players attached to status quo and opaque revenue streams. Take all the typical challenges that… Read more Entrepreneurship is The Future of Healthcare

Smart Heart: GPU accelerated deep learning to find better solution for Coronary artery disease (CAD)

“The greatest truth is this: if the health of the individual is not cared for then all the big ideas die when the thinker becomes too ill or tired or burned-out to carry them out. The big thinkers are going to need health on their side to get it done.” Says Ann Garvin an author,… Read more Smart Heart: GPU accelerated deep learning to find better solution for Coronary artery disease (CAD)

Will tech replace nurses?

This spring I took part in a multidisciplinary course at Aalto University focusing on innovating in elderly care. For one week, each of us shadowed a nurse making house calls. This was an eye-opening experience for me, revealing how alone many elderly people are in Finland, as fewer younger people today take care of their… Read more Will tech replace nurses?

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

Big Data Mining in Medicine

One of the main themes of last Friday’s lecture was big data and its impact across numerous different industries. In today’s blog post, I’d like to focus on how big data and the associated process’ impact on the healthcare industry. A phrase commonly interchanged with big data is data mining. In an article by Jennifer… Read more Big Data Mining in Medicine

Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

On the morning of the 27th of June 2017, Stanford Medicine and Duke University School, welcomed a few volunteers into their offices. Every participant had to sign a consent form before they could collect two devices that will monitor their biomedical stats for the next few years (heartbeat, activity, sleep pattern etc.). The project is… Read more Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

Disruptive Potential of IoT in Healthcare

Overview The healthcare industry in the United States is a prime target for disruption due to its enormous size and projections of its continued growth:   The country spent $3.4 trillion on health care in 2016, a number that is projected to grow to $5.5 trillion by 2025. The study, by the Centers for Medicare… Read more Disruptive Potential of IoT in Healthcare

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

A walk in the clouds with Finnish healthcare service providers

Cloud adaptation and virtualization was in the center of last week’s discussion. Both Carl Eschenbach (Partner, Sequoia Capital and Ex-COO, VMware) and Jeff Welser (Vice President and Lab Director, IBM Research) covered the history as well as the future of cloud development. According to both, the finance and healthcare agencies are the slowest in adopting… Read more A walk in the clouds with Finnish healthcare service providers