May 08, 2024
Mobile phones might keep teenagers awake at night (it's called 'sleep-texting' and teenagers around the world practice it), but they have the potential to help you sleep better, or at all.
Mar 13, 2024
By 2060, one in three Europeans will be over 65. Europe's ageing population is an important challenge in terms of social and health care, but the European Commission thinks that it also provides oportunities for companies.
Feb 20, 2025
One of the good things of wearables still being on their first stages is that innovation is constant, and the best of them are probably still to come. Right now, the Mobile World Congress 2015 provides a setting to showcase the latest improvements, the current trends, and at the same time set the path for what will be the wearables of the future.
Jan 23, 2025
The mission of Living it Up (LiU), a digital health care and wellbeing project launched by NHS Scotland, is to promote a healthy lifestyle through the use of new technologies and to improve the way in which local services are delivered digitally. Dubbed "the know how to feel good", this pilot project was launched in 2012 and is now in process of being co-designed before it is finally implemented this year.
Dec 19, 2024
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium based in California whose organisational model is admired by clinical managers worldwide, and is considered the paragon of tech implementation in healthcare. It was founded in 1945 to palliate the effects of the Great Depression and make healthcare more accessible in a time when most citizens could not afford private care.
Dec 12, 2024
More than 2.5 million people in the world suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurologic chronic disease that affects the central nervous system through the immune system (Multiple Sclerosis Observatory). In Spain, it affects 40,000 people. In Catalonia, a total of 7,000.
