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Apple’s Quiet Acquisition of Gliimpse
It has emerged that Apple quietly acquired Gliimpse earlier this year. Founded in 2013, Gliimpse is a personal health data start-up with a digital platform that enables the collection, personalization, and sharing of images of an individual’s health data within the United States. The platform is based on an artificial intelligence engine with capabilities to...Gillian Christie | Aug 30, 2016
Apple, CareKit, data, data protection, digital health, ELSI, Gliimpse, Guidelines for Personalized Health Technology, HealthKit, personalized technology, privacy, ResearchKit, security, transparency, wearable technology, wearables
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Mental Health Emerging Out of the Shadows
The 1930s marked substantial investment by the Rockefeller Foundation in the scientific development of mental health, including psychiatry, neurology, and care symptoms, in the US, the UK, and elsewhere. This funding provided a foundation for the potential transformation of mental health in a post-World War II health agenda. Since the 1930s, the international development community...Derek Yach & Gillian Christie | Apr 26, 2016
Big White Wall, mental health, NCDs, personalized health technology, prevention, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, UK, US, wearable technology, WHO, World Bank, World Health Organization
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A Healthy Roundup: The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show
It is undeniable that health is undergoing an unprecedented digital revolution. This transformation was prominently displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place from January 6-9, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. According to the CES Daily, more than 800 companies exhibited a wearables product, and approximately 500 exhibitors considered themselves part of the...Gillian Christie | Jan 13, 2016
artificial intelligence, Blaze, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, data, digital health, Edith Ramirez, embeddables, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FitBit, Ginni Rometty, IBM, IBM Watson, Krush, L'Oreal, La Vegas, Oculus, Pepper, privacy, SoftBank, Under Armour, virtual reality, WAVE framework, wearable technology, wearables
