May 08, 2024
"In a time where eHealth solutions are no longer an option but a necessity, nations need to come together to share best practices and knowledge so that we can advance rapidly together in transforming our healthcare systems with IT solutions," states Ingrida Circene, Minister of Health at the Republic of Latvia, eHealth Week's host country from the 11th to the 13th of May in Riga.
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.
May 07, 2024
Qoolife is an online consultation platform linking doctors and patients created by two entrepreneurs with a desire to improve patient care. We talked to the company's CEO, David Gil, about the project.
Apr 30, 2024
Despite affecting seven to ten million people in the world (according to data by the Parkinson's disease foundation), Parkinson's disease (PD) has no cure and no known cause. It is hoped that this will change soon-2017 will be the 200-year anniversary of the disease's discovery-but until then, resources are focused in two aspects: finding treatments to each specific symptom and elaborating research on the causes of the disease. New technologies, and mobile technologies in particular, are proving to be some of researchers' best allies in both these fields.
Apr 30, 2024
The latest measles outbreak in the United States has raised alarms about vaccines policies. In 2014, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) registered 668 cases of the disease across 27 states, the highest number since measles was documented eradicated, in 2000. So long, 166 cases have been detected in 2015. This time, the outbreak started in Disneyland, California, and according to CDC most of the people infected had not been vaccinated.
Apr 24, 2024
"Big data is like teenagers with sex: everybody says they've done it, but they haven't. And if they do it, they do it badly." This is what big data is like, according to Mind the Byte CEO Alfons Nonell (@alfonsnic). Mind the Byte, a cloud-solutions company of Barcelona focused on life sciences, organised the SciCloud - Big Data & Health event at the Scientific Park of Barcelona, where they explained the potential big data has in improving health care quality and people's health.
