Tecnologia altera saúde na segunda metade do século
Entre os exemplos, a pílula anticoncepcional contribuiu para a emancipação feminina Nos últimos 50 anos, foram muitas as inovações que aconteceram na área da saúde em todo o mundo. Embora grande parte dessas novidades tenha data de criação anterior a 1965, foi na segunda metade do século passado que muitos procedimentos se popularizaram, permitindo […]
DNA-Based Personalized Medicine May Change Healthcare Forever
Ever feel like your doctor’s orders don’t really match up with what your body wants or needs? Well, you’re not alone. And there’s a whole new wave of doctoring just around the corner, deemed “personalized medicine,” which uses DNA sequencing to develop treatments designed around your unique genes. What that means: In most cases, all […]
How To Make Big Data Actionable For Better Health Care Insight And Value
What can big data do for health care? And does it hold the same promise of new insights that it holds for other industries? A new Optum™ infographic shows what big data is and isn’t. And it shows that by making big data actionable, the result will be insights that improve patient care, reduce risk […]
Designing a Hospital to Better Fight Infection
In a new approach to reducing the scourge of hospital-acquired infections, a team of scientists has been testing thousands of microbe samples from a Chicago hospital to learn how a medical building might make patients sicker. Data from the three-year Hospital Microbiome Project are still being analyzed. So far the team has found factors including […]
How Rules and Bureaucracy Breed Innovation
Most of the matter in the known universe is stuff that we have no way of seeing. Dark matter–the incredibly dense, invisible material that exists between stars, planets, and all the other objects that we can see–accounts for over 80 percent of the total matter in the cosmos. What can astrophysics teach us about innovation? […]
