Solving the solvable part of fake news
In the first installment of this series, we caught up with Bruce Knuteson, former physics professor at MIT and now founder of Kn-X, a knowledge exchange startup.
Enhancing telemedicine privacy and security with HIPAA
Telemedicine is not an entirely new concept. The idea of remote doctor consultations through telephone has been around even before the invention of television. Transmission of radiologic images via telephone has been done as early as 1948, while video has been used for medical purposes since the 1960s. By then, paramedics were already transmitting cardiac […]
Overcoming hurdles to full telemedicine implementation
The United States federal government spent $3.2 trillion in healthcare, which is about $9,900 per person, in 2015. This figure accounts for 17.8% of the GDP and is expected to increase annually by almost 6%. [1] According to WHO, the United States also spent around 17.1% of its GDP in healthcare in 2014, which is […]
Animal-free food is coming, here are the startups pioneering the field
Although tech news, as well as the pretty much inevitable hype, have been dominated by startups working in the field of electronics, AI, healthcare, and other next big thing, the number of food and beverage startups, which are generally considered less interesting, are on the rise. Behind their perception as tech wallflowers, a notable number […]
Is telemedicine ready for prime time?
Telemedicine has been bandied around as one of the next big things along with AI, robotics, and gene therapy. Thus, startups are cropping up that aim to strike it big in the telemedicine arena. In fact, telemedicine has been around for a while, but every year many of around 10 million or so patients in […]
Is there more to Blockchain than Bitcoin?
What is blockchain? Essentially, it is a distributed ledger of cryptographically-secured transactions conducted using interconnected computers that share resources without intervening computer servers. It is decentralized, which means no single government, company, or group controls it. As opposed to the Internet based on information exchange, it’s being heralded as some sort of the Internet of […]
A deeper understanding of diseases with microbiome analysis
The term “microbiome” refers to the ecosystem of microorganisms in the human body. It includes microbes in one’s gut, bacteria on the skin, and any microscopic organism that lives within or on any human body part. Interestingly, microorganisms comprising the human microbiome outnumber human cells in the human body they inhabit. Not all microbes are […]
Perovskites: Things you need to know about third-generation solar
The share of solar in the global market for energy generation has doubled in the last 5 years and continues to see rapid growth [1]. While non-renewable energy sources dominate the charts, solar power holds the largest share in the clean energy sector at roughly 44% [2]. Four decades of research has produced the most […]
Making the Paper-to-Digital Shift: Improving Healthcare with EHRs
The United States spends more than any other country on healthcare per person. In 2015, it spent $3.2 trillion in healthcare. By 2025, it will spend about 19.8% of GDP towards healthcare.[1] Despite this, the US is behind other developed nations in healthcare services. Compared to other developed countries, the US still lacks universal health […]
Third Generation Photovoltaics (3GPV): Patent Activity Overview
Third Generation photovoltaic devices (or 3GPV) are solution-processed solar cells (SCs) based on organic materials, inorganic semiconductors, nanostructured materials, and hybrids. 3GPVs hold high potential in the renewable energy market given its high efficiency at lower production cost. [blockquote text=”In just a decade, 3GPV has almost reached the same efficiency as that of 1GPV, which took […]
