Salesforce and Philips Connect Doctors to Your Fitness Tracker | Enterprise. Getty Apple has its HealthKit, Google its Google Fit; and now Salesforce and Philips are getting into the game as well with a cloud-based platform could help doctors track data from a multitude of devices. The two companies want to extend the Salesforce1 platform so that developers can write new apps that take data from different sources — MRI scanners or heart monitors, for example — and integrate it in a secure way while complying with privacy laws.
Philips has already used the new platform to build its first two apps, Jeroen Tas, head of Philips Healthcare Informatic Solutions group, said today in a press conference. Healthcare is one of the most promising fields for wearable computing and the Internet of Things. Today activity monitors like the Fitbit are mostly marketed to fitness nuts, but soon these types of devices could chronicling ill patients keep tabs on their health and gather vital data. But making this work will require more than just a new breed of medical devices. How big data lets us see a little further into the unknown. HTC Jumps Aboard The Wearable Tech Train. Big Data & Big Profits: The One Infographic That Will Show You How to Find $200 Billion. BBC: Horizon - Monitor Me. Global Health and well-being.
Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, according to research by MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology Office. Leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the implications of big data, not just a few data-oriented managers. The increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future. MGI studied big data in five domains—healthcare in the United States, the public sector in Europe, retail in the United States, and manufacturing and personal-location data globally.
Big data can generate value in each. For example, a retailer using big data to the full could increase its operating margin by more than 60 percent. 1. 2. Podcast 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Jawbone. Global Health and well-being. Big Data & Analytics for Healthcare. Fuelband SE. Activity Tracker & Fitness Monitor. Site Fitbit® officiel : Coachs électroniques pour l'activité et le sommeil Flex, One et Zip.
The Economics of Well-Being. Idea in Brief Since World War II, gross national product and its replacement, gross domestic product, have been the chief measures of national success. Now, though, governments and nonprofit groups are working to devise alternative metrics for evaluating progress. GDP is under siege for three main reasons. One is that, even on its own terms, it is flawed: It misses lots of economic activity (unpaid household work, for example) and, as a single-number representation of vast, complex systems, is inevitably skewed.
Artwork: Yue Minjun, Noah’s Ark, 2006, lithograph and silk screen, 105 x 134 cm Money isn’t everything. At the moment, though, GDP is embattled. As everyone in business knows, you manage what you measure. From Happiness Calculus to GDP The story usually begins with Jeremy Bentham, an Englishman who in 1781 outlined a philosophy of utility that assessed the merits of an action according to how much happiness it produced. Quand le mobile révolutionne le bien-être et la santé.