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Oura Ring 4: Specs, Price, Features, Availability

Oura Ring 4: Specs, Price, Features, Availability | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Oura’s update to its category-defining smart ring will be smaller, smarter, and add even more women’s health features.
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Influencer Burnout Is on the Rise. A New Mental Health Service Wants to Help

Influencer Burnout Is on the Rise. A New Mental Health Service Wants to Help | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
As influencers are becoming more vocal about burnout, stress, dopamine addiction, and body image issues, a new therapy service is launching to cater to their unique career struggles.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk is moving to trademark several product names, including Telepathy and Telekinesis.
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January 11, 11:56 PM
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The Health Monitoring Boom Only Gets Weirder From Here

The Health Monitoring Boom Only Gets Weirder From Here | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Forget going to the doctor’s office; these companies are putting the power of tracking every aspect of your health into our own hands. But do you really want to know?
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November 30, 2024 6:09 PM
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Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.
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October 6, 2024 1:27 AM
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Oura Ring 4: Specs, Price, Features, Availability

Oura Ring 4: Specs, Price, Features, Availability | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Oura’s update to its category-defining smart ring will be smaller, smarter, and add even more women’s health features.
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August 17, 2024 2:24 AM
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This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms

This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Inspired by his expertise in breaking ancient codes, Roeland Decorte built a smartphone app that continuously listens for signs of disease hidden in our pulse.
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July 22, 2024 2:46 PM
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
In a livestreamed update on X, Elon Musk and Neuralink executives gave an update on the company's next study participant—and its next-generation brain implant.
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June 29, 2024 3:22 AM
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Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse

Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

With cyberattacks increasingly targeting health care providers, an arduous bureaucratic process meant to address legal risk is keeping hospitals offline longer, potentially risking lives.

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May 12, 2024 1:07 AM
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design

Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.
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May 5, 2024 1:08 AM
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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.

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April 21, 2024 7:19 PM
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Change Healthcare’s New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse

Change Healthcare’s New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

A cybercriminal gang called RansomHub claims to be selling highly sensitive patient information stolen from Change Healthcare following a ransomware attack by another group in February.

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April 7, 2024 2:23 AM
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Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot

Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

Afshin Mehin has helped design some of the most futuristic neurotech devices.

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February 24, 2024 3:48 AM
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Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t

Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial subject can control a computer mouse with their brain, but some researchers are frustrated by a lack of information about the study.

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From Humanoid Robots to Exoskeletons, These Are the Best Superhuman Gadgets

From Humanoid Robots to Exoskeletons, These Are the Best Superhuman Gadgets | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Advancements in computing and robotics are changing how people live. Here are our favorite prosthetics, smart glasses, exoskeletons, and fitness trackers.
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January 12, 12:31 AM
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Revised NHS App key to tackling waiting list | Computer Weekly

Revised NHS App key to tackling waiting list | Computer Weekly | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
The updated app is being positioned as a streamlined approach for patients and NHS providers to communicate and book appointments
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December 11, 2024 2:10 AM
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An Augmented Reality Program Can Help Patients Overcome Parkinson’s Symptoms

An Augmented Reality Program Can Help Patients Overcome Parkinson’s Symptoms | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Simple external cues, such as lines on the floor, can help Parkinson’s patients focus their efforts and overcome the difficulty of the symptoms. With augmented reality, those cues can be anywhere.
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October 17, 2024 12:52 AM
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These Smart Glasses Will Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat

These Smart Glasses Will Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
A new type of smart glasses from Emteq Labs have cameras pointed inwards, aiming to track your life and quantify how you’re feeling—and what you’re eating.
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September 15, 2024 11:21 PM
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Apple’s AirPods Pro Could Soon Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry

Apple’s AirPods Pro Could Soon Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
AirPods revolutionized the wireless earbuds category and are poised to do the same for over-the-counter hearing aids.
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July 22, 2024 2:52 PM
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The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling

The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update.
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July 6, 2024 12:19 AM
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The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors

The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it
More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls “an analog system in a digital age.”
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June 29, 2024 2:51 AM
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London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test data

London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test data | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

Experts say the hack is one of the most "significant and harmful" cyber attacks ever in the UK.

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May 12, 2024 12:57 AM
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Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA

Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

Move over, chatbots. This upgraded AI can model antibodies, DNA, and molecules from disease organisms. This next generation of AlphaFold, from Google Deepmind, is poised to significantly advance drug development.

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Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak

Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.

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April 17, 2024 4:42 AM
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The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision

The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.

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March 10, 2024 12:33 AM
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A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound

A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound | IT in Health and hospitals | Scoop.it

An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light and sound.

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