La filtration des eaux usées requiert souvent l'utilisation de membranes céramiques ou polymères, des systèmes relativement chers et qui nécessitent un nettoyage fréquent à l'aide de produits chimiques onéreux. Les membranes polymères par exemple, doivent être remplacées tous les deux ou trois ans, ce qui peut être contraignant pour les industries. Une équipe de la School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE, [1]) de l'Université Technologique de Nanyang (NTU, [2]) a développé une membrane auto-nettoyante plus rentable qui devrait au minimum doubler le temps d'utilisation. La vocation de ce produit est de se développer internationalement et de bénéficier aux industries chimiques, agro-alimentaires et biomédicales.
The virtual health care platform HealthTap has launched a new service called “Concierge,” which allows users to connect with their own primary care doctor, or with a specialist, in all 50 states.
The new service is an improvement over HealthTap’s “Prime” service, which paired users up with participating primary care doctors in 28 states.
Unlike other fitness tracker devices, Moov has been entirely financed by enthusiastic exercise fans — until now, that is.
Today, the company whose fitness tracking band is well known for being crowdfunded, is announcing that it has raised $3 million in its first round of institutional funding led by Banyan Capital.
For women trying to conceive, getting pregnant might not get easier in the next few months—but tracking their fertility to find the likeliest time to conceive might.
Kindara, a startup in Boulder, CO, recently announced the debut of Wink, a wireless smart thermometer the company has spent the past few years developing. Wink uses Bluetooth to connect to iOS and Android phones and tablets and syncs with Kindara’s popular fertility tracking app.
Security isn’t what it used to be. Thirty years ago, it was fence with a locked gate and a guard posted outside a data center. Today, it’s a multi-layered strategy encompassing people, processes, devices, sensors, machines, systems and networks.
As the world’s markets rapidly evolve into complex hybrids of physical and digital assets, cyber security is increasingly critical as a stabilizing force. It is no longer an esoteric art practiced mainly by rival intelligence agencies and giant corporations — it has become a basic necessity of everyday life for any business.
Condesa tiene hasta el próximo 15 de noviembre como fecha límite para eludir la presentación de la antigua suspensión de pagos. En los cuatro meses que la ley habilita para buscar una salida durante el preconcurso, el grupo vasco ha encontrado un socio en José María Aristrain, una de las mayores fortunas de Europa y que ya compró este año el 11% de Tubacex por 39,2 millones. Precisamente adquirió esos títulos, en febrero pasado, a Condesa.
In recent decades, the health care industry has made remarkable progress in the understanding, detection and treatment of disease, primarily thanks to technological advancements. Given that the majority of Americans are healthy most of the time, one might expect that medical progress would dramatically reduce the cost of health care due to preventative education, early detection and more effective treatments.
Yet despite this abundance of new testing and treatment methods — or perhaps because of it — the cost of health care has skyrocketed, while over the same period general price inflation has been tame. The question remains: Are we really getting the full value for what we’re paying?
Technological developments in the health care sector hold great promise for delivering a better standard of care in the United States. But just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come. Doctors, that is.
Electronic prescriptions are a good example. The majority of doctors in the U.S. have no idea if the prescriptions they write actually get filled by the patient. Surescripts, for example, has a platform that lets doctors send prescriptions electronically and track when and if they are picked up.
The technology is there. But Seth Joseph, vice president of corporate strategy at Surescripts, says doctors may be reluctant to access that data and check in on a patient outside of an appointment.
The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. While the fixed internet that grew up in the 1990s connected 1 billion users via PCs, and the mobile internet of the 2000s connected 2 billion users via smartphones (on its way to 6 billion), the IoT is expected to connect 28 billion “things” to the internet by 2020, ranging from wearable devices such as smartwatches to automobiles, appliances, and industrial equipment. The repercussions span industries and regions.
Estas Jornadas nacen con la pretensión de convertirse en un foro de encuentro e intercambio de experiencias innovadoras, haciendo especial énfasis en identificar y exponer buenas prácticas en materia de turismo gastronómico con el objetivo de poder extrapolar sus aplicaciones a nuestros principales destinos españoles.
