Medical Technology

@WIRED 9 months ago

“You have a right to your records.” This week’s @WIRED Classics revisits @mcgowankat’s 2016 feature about our medical records. Data generated by your body is routinely captured and sold by health care companies. Shouldn’t you benefit from it, too? https://www.wired.com/2016/02/our-medical-data-must-become-free/ https://t.co/gIFdad8m0H

@WIRED 5 years ago

With all the recent privacy scares, it’s kind of a weird time to be asking a million people to voluntarily hand over decades of health records and DNA ...

@WIRED 6 years ago

Competition in the fitness tracker game is getting fierce. Fitbit's solution? Pivot to being a medical device.

@WIRED 6 years ago

Competition in the fitness tracker game is getting fierce. Fitbit's solution? Pivot to being a medical device.

@WIRED 6 years ago

Qualcomm is developing an entirely new kind of healthcare—one where tools like VR help doctors better understand, diagnose, and treat patients in real life.

@WIRED 6 years ago

The functioning of this man's own body—heartbeat included—could be used against him in an upcoming trial.

@WIRED 7 years ago

A cure for cancer, diabetes, and heart disease might be found in your DNA—if doctors can access.

@WIRED 7 years ago

When this technique was proposed to the FBI, they said it wouldn't work. But new research explains that anyone with "sufficient technical skills" could ...

@WIRED 7 years ago

When this technique was proposed to the FBI, they said it wouldn't work. But new research explains that anyone with "sufficient technical skills" could ...

@realtimeclub 8 years ago

Nice article in @WIRED on AI + data in medicine http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2016/04/features/ai-cancer-drugs-berg-pharma-startup. >> @realtimeclub dinner on #BigData #medical #research on 19/4/2016

@WIRED 8 years ago

Medicare is a massive pool of underguarded funds ripe for skimming. Which pisses John Mininno off, so he's doing something about it.

@WIRED 8 years ago

A super-computing cluster is busily whirring away at the University of Washington—supported by more than $100 million in funding from the Gates Foundation—crunching ...

@WIRED 9 years ago

The problem Apple's ResearchKit hopes to solve is the difficulty in getting big data about disease.

@WIRED 9 years ago

Whenever the FDA catches falsified data or unreported side effects, it issues a warning letter to document the bad research. That’s good. But a new study shows...