Tag: software
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Big Data Project Seeks to Autocomplete Software Code
5 November 2014. A new project led by computer scientists at Rice University in Houston aims to apply big data analytics and data mining for software developers to generate code the same way as search engines anticipate or correct the entry of search terms. The 4 year, $11 million initiative is funded by Defense Advanced…
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IBM, Health Tech, Univ Designing Critical Care Mobile System
23 October 2014. IBM, University of Michigan, and mobile health technology company AirStrip are developing a system to provide real time monitoring and analytics for patients with chronic or critical disorders. The system is being designed to collect data directly from patients and provide early warning initially for hemodynamic decompensation, a type of heart failure…
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Genomic Data Analysis Service Launches, Hosts Autism Data
20 October 2014. NextCode Health, a start-up informatics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, unveiled its NextCode Exchange, a shared online genomics database and analysis service for diagnostics and research with sequencing data. The 1 year-old company also is hosting a genomics database of people with autism for online access to researchers. NextCode Health says its databases…
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Drug Delivery, Rewards Companies Partner on Med. Adherence
6 October 2014. West Pharmaceutical Services, a company producing devices for administering drugs, and HealthPrize Technologies that offers an online system for rewarding patients when they follow medication instructions, are collaborating on a platform that connects their products into a service to boost medication adherence. Financial details of the venture were not disclosed. The companies…
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Google Glass Captioning Developed for Hearing Impaired
3 October 2014. Computer scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta designed a system that converts speech from conversation partners to text, displayed on Google Glass systems worn by people with hearing difficulties. Google Glass is a wearable miniature computer that displays data on eyeglasses worn by the user. The software is a creation…
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Drug-Error Analytics Service Raises $1M in Early Funding
2 October 2014. MedAware, a company harnessing big-data analytics to prevent erroneous drug prescriptions, raised $1 million in its first round of venture financing. The Ra’anana, Israel enterprise completed the funding round led by OurCrowd, an Israeli crowdfunding investment service, with contributions from GE Ventures. The company is the creation of CEO Gidi Stein, a…
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3-D, Open-Source Syringe Pump Cuts Research Lab Costs
18 September 2014. Engineers at Michigan Technological University in Houghton produced a syringe pump, a common but often expensive piece of lab equipment, with three-dimensional printing that drastically cuts the cost of the device. The team led by Michigan Tech’s Joshua Pearce published its findings yesterday in the journal PLoS One, and makes the pump’s…
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Asthma/COPD Device Maker Lands $14.5M in Venture Funds
5 September 2014. Propeller Health in Madison, Wisconsin, developer of a system to track respiratory disorder medications in real time, secured $14.5 million in its second round of venture financing. The funding round was led by venture investment company Safeguard Scientifics, with participation by the Social+Capital Partnership, Propeller Health’s previous funding source. The Propeller Health…
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Smartphone App Screens Infants for Jaundice
27 August 2014. Computer scientists and medical researchers at University of Washington in Seattle are developing a system that lets physicians or parents with a smartphone screen newborn infants for jaundice. The system is described in a paper to be presented on 16 September at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp…
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FDA Approves AFib Monitor Algorithm for Mobile Devices
21 August 2014. AliveCor Inc. in San Francisco says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an analytical processing algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation by its heart monitor designed for smartphones and tablets. FDA already cleared the basic AliveCor mobile device heart monitor system for marketing in the U.S. in February 2014. The company’s heart…