5 Examples of IoT Innovation In Healthcare
Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown beyond factories and industrial applications to offering broader connectivity of devices and sensors in healthcare. As the number and type of IoT innovations grow, healthcare will benefit from better sensors, more stable connectivity, and faster computing power for real-time analysis of patient data. […]
5 Key Takeaways From the COVID-19 Telehealth Boom
COVID-19 brought many changes to our world over the past year, and healthcare and medicine were hit hardest by the pandemic as hospitals constantly scrambled to find enough personal protective equipment, hospital beds, and space to house infected patients during each surge. While hospitals were barely staying above water, providers and patients who weren’t infected […]
5 Healthcare Technologies That Are Helping Us Fight COVID-19 — Part 1
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost everyone on Earth, and we’ve been handling it with a multitude of high-tech and low-tech solutions. From masks and social distancing to contact tracing apps and telehealth, these precautions and technologies have helped many of us avoid catching the virus while allowing us to do necessary tasks. Recently, biotechnology […]
6 IoT Trends for Retail and Finance
The Internet of Things (IoT) has impacted several industries for the better over the past decade. Thanks to IoT, businesses in various sectors can cut costs, rapidly improve product quality, meet customer demands faster, and even forecast maintenance needs before a breakdown occurs. For finance, IoT has made it so that you don’t have to […]
How Telehealth Is Helping Those With Chronic Conditions During COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed how medical providers see their patients for wellness check-ups, illness check-ins, and on-demand appointments. More and more people are turning to telehealth to avoid the risk of catching the virus from visiting the doctor’s office. Especially for patients who are managing their chronic conditions, telehealth has been a more convenient and less […]
The Internet of Things Is Leading the Way to a More Sustainable Future
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about optimizing business and internal processes in the short-term. But IoT is a great technology for longer-term goals too: machine maintenance over repair, catching small but possibly impactful anomalies, and even sustainability on planet Earth. IoT is poised to solve many of the 17 goals that the New […]
How AI Is Impacting the Operating Room
Technology has infiltrated every aspect of the healthcare system. And in some cases, the resulting new medical applications are allowing us to peer deeper into one of the most mysterious organs in the human body. An artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technology published in the Nature Medicine journal is improving the extremely precise and sensitive field of […]
5G Is Fueling the Future of Wearables
When most of us think of “wearables,” our minds go straight to smartwatches like the Apple Watch and Fitbit. They track our fitness, health, and more, and we seem to love the insights they extract from our daily habits. Although many wearables come with mobile connectivity, most of us are tethering our wearables to our […]
5G Will Revolutionize Manufacturing Technologies
A few centuries ago, radical improvements in manufacturing technology brought us the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to 5G, we find ourselves on the cusp of another wave of innovation: Industry 4.0. Before, tracking data across systems (even in one factory location) was next to impossible. Executives would rely on approximations, machines would get repaired only when […]
Can Machine Learning Solve Climate Change?
Climate change is the most pressing problem of our era. And how we approach solving it will define how humanity will survive on earth. This matter has caused many innovative thinkers to envision what a viable, sustainable future looks like. Perhaps electricity generated by renewable means will completely replace fossil fuels in transportation. Maybe we’ll […]