Interest in blockchain has accelerated dramatically over the past year. On Wall Street the number of fintech startups developing blockchain solutions…
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Tracking health, wellness, and productivity in the quantified workplace
The growth of wearable computing, tracking, social-network analysis, and data analytics can help build both healthier and more productive companies.
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Major players like Apple, Google and Samsung have launched platforms in a bid to create new data services in the healthcare…
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Open data standards, low-cost sensors, and internet of things connectivity are helping cities create new technology platforms to manage social interactions,…
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Thanks to the Quantified Self movement, we’ll soon see consumers tracking everything including sleep, fitness, physiological indicators, sexual activity and fertility…
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New types of sensor technology, rapidly growing analytics enabled by big data, and the new business models that IoT may catalyze…
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The U.S. health care system is at a turning point where opportunities for big data and data analytics firms are likely…
Read MoreThe wearable-computing market: a global analysis
During a Formula 1 race a driver experiences wrenching forces of more than 4.5G. His heart rate may exceed 180 beats per…
Read MoreThe quantified self: hacking the body for better health and performance
More work on data policies and ownership may be important in the coming years as the movement takes off. As insights…
Read MoreDefining work in the digital age: an analysis by GigaOM Pro
The future of work is already here. It is just already distributed, one might say. The freelance economy, microtasking, mobile workers,…
Read MoreThe Internet of things: creating tomorrow’s health care
The growth of the Internet of things is likely to open new disruptive business opportunities for services that add value to…
Read MoreThe future of mobile health, 2011–2016
Mobile health — the use of wireless devices to manage health conditions, collect health data, monitor vital signs, provide clinical decision…
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