Major companies like Uber and Under Armour are putting data to work, and the emerging partnerships and new app developments are having a bottom-line impact.
“It isn’t a world of Watson: it’s a world with Watson,” said IBM’s Chairman, President, and CEO Ginni Rometty at the company’s World of Watson (WoW) conference.
Heart-SIGN will act as a data resource for arrhythmia research and clinical practice to help researchers identify specific needs, track patients, and measure outcomes.
IBM Watson, long touted for its potential in healthcare, is being put to work finding a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease.
The transformational power of cloud computing will encompass AI, infrastructure, security, and large-scale business opportunities.
Collecting 2.3 trillion GB of healthcare data is one thing, but analyzing it is the priority.
Current funding doesn’t match need, due to perceived low returns and lack of glamour in investing in service-based startups.
Hack the North is starting this weekend at the Waterloo Engineering School, and developers from across Canada and the world are attending.
Grush makes a children’s toothbrush that connects to both a mobile game for kids and a dashboard for parents, in a bid to ensure youngsters learn the proper way to clean their teeth.
Data analytics, a force for change in nearly every business, is now being leveraged to make lives easier for the vision impaired by increasing the graduation rate for guide dogs.
What you get out of a computer is only as good as what you put in. But what happens if you’re feeding a computer that learns and reasons?
Startup based in Kingston, Ontario, is attempting to develop a straightforward method for diagnosing coronary artery disease, using machine learning through with physiological information conventionally considered valueless.
Working as a business-to-business service provider, the company has built a powerful API platform that can scale digital health ideas, including patient monitoring, analytics, and turnkey integration with existing medical records.
This innovation model, facilitating collaboration between IBM, academic institutions, Ontario Centre of Excellence, and SMEs aims to help establish Ontario as a leading global centre for driving innovation in information technology, health, and urban infrastructure (water, energy, transportation).
The PlantID3 mobile app is used by agricultural professionals to monitor crop health. SwiftPad lets patients take a photo of their prescription and send it to their pharmacy; they get real-time feedback on when their medication is ready and can opt to have it delivered. 4D Virtual Space replaces floor plans for real estate developers. All three of these solutions rely on IBM Bluemix.
Real life is now catching up to the future as depicted in the 1960s. Dr. Sonny Kohli is turning science fiction into reality as the chief medical officer of Cloud DX Inc., a Kitchener, Ontario-based startup with the world’s first working tricorder-like health device.
Over the last few years, the company has snagged three massive online fitness communities: Endomondo, MapMyFitness and MyFitnessPal. They now control the largest online wellness-focused ecosystem, at 165 million users. And it’s what HealthBox can do with all that data that makes this a compelling package.