Most people who take prescription medication relate to the experience of occasionally missing a pill. For those who juggle multiple prescriptions, forgotten doses can become a regular occurrence.
Durham, NC, company HAP Innovations believes it can resolve those problems with a device that tracks all of a patient’s pills and dispenses them precisely when they must be taken. The pills would come from the pharmacy sorted and packaged in a cartridge.
he money continues to flow into the health-analytics platform business.
Today, Burlington-based Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, which offers an electronic health record (EHR) data aggregation and analytics platform, says that it has taken in another $13 million in venture capital.
The company says that Peloton Equity (a newly formed health care-focused private equity firm), Zaffre Investments, and some existing investors contributed to the funding round.
The fist-sized piece of silver metal that houses the compressor inlet temperature sensor inside a jet engine is a part that’s bit obscure even for many aviation aficionados. Starting now, however, it’s becoming a symbol of one of the biggest changes sweeping jet engine design.
The housing for the sensor, known as T25, recently became the first 3D-printed part certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly inside GE commercial jet engines.
GE Aviation is currently working with Boeing to retrofit more than 400 GE90-94B jet engines – some of the world’s largest and most powerful - with the 3D printed part. The GE90 family of engines powers Boeing’s 777 planes.
La compañía finlandesa de redes de telecomunicación Nokia ha anunciado la adquisición de la totalidad de las acciones de su rival francesa Alcatel-Lucent en una operación valorada en 15.600 millones de euros. La transacción, la mayor del sector en más de una década, se realizará mediante una oferta pública de canje de acciones entre ambas compañías, de modo que los accionistas de Alcatel-Lucent recibirán 0,55 acciones de la nueva empresa por cada título de la antigua.
Nokia se quedará con el 66,5 % del grupo resultante y Alcatel con el 33,5 % restante, creando un gigante con cerca de 114.000 empleados y unos 26.000 millones de euros de facturación.
El próximo 21 de mayo a las 09:00 se celebrará en las instalaciones de IK4-IDEKO la quinta edición del Curso de Introducción a la Inteligencia Competitiva. El curso tiene el objetivo de que cualquier persona o entidad interesada en lanzar una iniciativa en el ámbito de la Inteligencia Competitiva (IC) o la Vigilancia Tecnológica tenga la oportunidad de conocer de primera mano la experiencia de INTELSUITE en esta disciplina emergente.
Apple has released its ResearchKit software, which will enable medical and health researchers to tap the power of mobile devices to gather scientific data. The software turns the iPhone into a powerful tool for research.
Apple announced the initiative back in March as a way to expedite research studies. The platform enables medical researchers to easily access the massive amounts of data being collected from health devices and apps by Apple’s HealthKit platform.
Téléviseurs intelligents, lampes intelligentes, thermostats de nouvelle génération font leur apparition dans nos maisons. Demain nous serons tous équipés de réveils synchronisés avec la cafetière, de machine à laver capable de choisir la durée, la température et la quantité de savon en fonction des vêtements.
Movidius‘ vision is to build the visual sensors for the Internet of Things, making everyday things smart and connected. And that vision helped the company raise $40 million in funding today.
The investment is one of the biggest in a chip design company in the past couple of years, and it shows there’s still room for startups in a $300 billion industry dominated by giant companies. The Internet of Things requires innovation, and it’s creating that opening for startups.
San Mateo, California-based Movidius designs chips that can be used to sense the environment around you. They can be used for applications like self-driving cars or bicycle helmets that can detect road hazards.
ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones organiza una Jornada Empresarial sobre “Ciudades inteligentes en Latinoamérica: Oportunidades de colaboración”. El evento tendrá lugar en la nueva sede de ICEX en Madrid el lunes20 de abril de 9:00 a 14:30 horas. A continuación habrá un almuerzo de trabajo que finalizará a las 15:30 horas.
