Physicians are increasingly dissatisfied with their electronic health records. According to a recent survey conducted by the AMA and AmericanEHR Partners, just 34 percent of physicians said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their EHR in 2014, compared to 62 percent in 2010. While the...
The Hyperloop sounds like science fiction, Elon Musk’s pipe dream: leapfrog high speed rail and go right to packing us into capsules that fling us across the country in hours using what are, essentially, pneumatic tubes. It sounds crazy, when you think about it. It’s starting...
A future where providers more effectively manage individuals and groups of patients hinges on this one thing The notion of gleaning insights from mountains of health information, then applying those precisely to individual patients hinges on the confluence of various factors. ...
SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year, regulators in various cities have questioned whether Uber, the ride-hailing service, vets its drivers for criminal backgrounds as carefully as traditional taxi companies....
When it comes to space exploration, one of the greatest pain points is the sheer cost of transporting cargo and astronauts into space, which by one estimate is $50 million a pop. Getting into space is the easy part, it’s the cost that holds people...
Now that Ethereum Frontier has launched, the only thing between us and cyber-utopia is an app. Not just any app–but a P2P blockchain app that makes normal people lots of money. And before that, we need an anti-hero willing to do the work of building...
For the last year, Google’s work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns. The unicorns, a class of hot start-ups valued at $1 billion or more, are all aggressively pursuing the best and brightest minds in Silicon Valley with promises of talked-about...
If you’re considering solar power but aren’t quite sure it’s worth the expense, Google wants to point you in the right direction. Tapping its trove of satellite imagery and the latest in artificial intelligence, the company is offering a new online service that will instantly...
First the power goes out. It's not clear what's gone wrong, but cars are starting to jam the streets -- the traffic light are down. And something seems to be going haywire with the subways, too. No one can get to work. And even if they...
Facebook has rolled out a product in the United States that allows users to transfer money to each other via Facebook message. Your Facebook Messenger account is linked to a debit card. It’s an interesting premise and amazingly well executed. I haven’t seen a better...