An Israeli company that uses voice recognition technology to detect symptoms of COPD has won a connected heath start-up competition. Healthymize won the mHealth Israel connected health start-up contest in Jerusalem for its AI-based technology that can monitor signs of COPD in people’s speech. Healthymize turns digital devices such as smartphones, tablets and smart watches…
The service, offered by the Finnish health technology company Olento Life, claims to “repair relationship ties in an entirely new way”. Managing director Peeter Lange believes that changing gender roles, increased egocentricity, and the ability to seek out new partners using mobile tech mean that relationships have become a consumable commodity. Lange said he wanted…
When we launched Digital Health Age – a sister publication to Medical Plastics News – just over two years ago, we knew from our work in the medical device sector, that the market held promise. We didn’t realise just how much. Lu Rahman explains. In the last few years the digital health sector has grown…
This week, up to 70 young people will work with mentors from London’s Tech City to develop AI based solutions to tackle mental health and social issues for their local communities. The #AcornHackAI takes place on 17-18 June and signals the end of London Tech Week. Young people attending will from teams of five and…
Cognitive computing company, IBM Watson Health, has released data on a number of studies that highlight the usefulness of the Watson supercomputer for diagnosing and accelerating cancer treatments. Three studies showed that Watson for Oncology agreed with doctors on a range of cancer treatments as much as 96% of the time. One study, taking place…