Healthcare organizations, both providers and health plans, continue to feel the pressure to expand access to care, improve quality, and reduce costs. Increasingly empowered patients and members are intensifying this pressure through demands for price transparency, mobile access, and personalized experiences. To meet these demands, it is critical for healthcare organizations to shift their focus […]
Posts Tagged ‘IoT’
Deciding which Predictive Maintenance Tools to use First
It has been my experience that when applying the proper predictive tools strategies to critical assets, it gets confusing about where to apply capital expense, training, and people. Here are 3 factors to help determine which predictive maintenance tool to use first: Always start with the asset life cycle plan (6 months, 6 years, etc). […]
2016 Connected Health Trends:Patient-Centered Activity Monitoring
Our next trend in Connected Health of 2016 takes us into the much lauded world of mobile health. This year we are most concerned with using the mobile health innovations that have been created to measure patient activity, and the ability to measure activity is growing. At the heart of telehealth’s call for “healthcare everywhere”, […]
Infographic: 5 Customer Experience Trends You Need To Know
Customer experience, or CX, is the sum of all interactions a customer can have with a brand. What a customer thinks of a brand becomes the overall brand perception and trumps the company’s view of itself. For more and more organizations, digital transformation is the process that drives customer experience advancement. Digital transformation is a means […]
2016 Connected Health Trends: Internet of Things & Security
More and more often we are seeing Connected Health trends make friends with neighboring technology solutions. Such is the case, for example, with the digitized longitudinal care plan that relies upon both Business Intelligence and Interoperability to, in time, connect the patient to their care plan. However, just as some medications create side effects that […]
IoT in Manufacturing
Join us at the 2016 IndustryWeek Manufacturing & Technology Conference & Expo as Abbvie, Perficient and IBM discuss “The Impact of Analytics on Asset Reliability and Process Quality”. Asset-intensive industries have been connecting assets to dashboards for decades. The “Internet of Things” (IOT) has significantly changed the way these connections are made. Lower costs of […]
Telecom Implements Splunk to Help with Network Optimization
It’s no secret that data is accelerating at a dramatic pace in terms of volume, velocity, variety, and variability. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), unstructured data accounts for more than 90% of the information in today’s organizations and its use is accelerating. Of the many different types of Big Data and unstructured data, machine data […]
Cloud Trend #7: Tapping into the Internet of Things
There’s been a lot if buzz in the tech industry around the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential it has for savvy marketers. You’ve probably heard one of the many statistics or predictions similar to this, “By 2020, there will be more than 50 billion people connected to the Internet.” That’s a lot […]
Raspberry Pi 3 and IoT – Built-in Wireless and Windows 10 Support
It’s been 4 years since the first Raspberry Pi was released on February 29, 2012. In the last four years there have been a number of updates to the Raspberry Pi platform, including the Raspberry Pi 2 released 1 year ago. The Raspberry Pi has been fairly popular among hobbyist, education and industrial markets with […]
3 Ideas from IBM Interconnect – IoT with Watson Session
Welcome from IBM Interconnect 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After attending the session “IoT with Watson” at IBM Interconnect I became a believer in the possibility of connecting the physical and digital worlds together through the power of the cloud. Peter Crocker – IBM Watson IoT Platform Product Manager provided a very complete overview of where the […]
Jump-Start Your Secure Coding Program With OWASP ASVS 3.0
The concept of secure coding used to be a little hazy, one of those you’ll-know-it-when-you-see it concepts. Patterns for secure coding generally arrived as one-offs, where some vendor would recommend their product/library/framework because it “solved critical security problem X and here’s why…” Recently, however, the vast number of data breaches reported in the news has dramatically driven […]
Create a Simple Internet-Connected Device with MQTT
Previously, I’ve written about MQTT’s role in the Internet of Things. As a next step, my goal for this blog is to create a temperature and humidity monitor which pushes updates via MQTT. To create a temperature and humidity monitor, we need to create an electronic circuit that monitors temperature and humidity as well as […]