Tag Archives: big data

Intelligence The huge, growing amount of data we have available, is powering data analytics and artificial intelligence is taking advantage of that. Notice how Digital Twins have “embedded” some of the Vs characterising big data: Volume: the volume of data aggregated in a digital twin varies considerably depending on the …

What about starting from scratch to create a Digital Platform that could succeed?  As stated it has to have the following characteristics: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to let third parties develop on …

The amount of investment in start ups focussing on Digital Health has kept growing in the last years and, interestingly, we are seeing recurring investment on the same companies indicating that it is no longer a widespread distribution “just in case”, rather a continuous investment on few companies that show …

I started this series of posts on the Digital Transformation of Health Care pointing out at the three looming disruptions ahead: de-localisation, personalisation and digitalisation. These correspond, broadly speaking to the area of Digital Health, Precision Health and Big Data, even though these areas are connected with one another as …

The Moore’s law, the doubling of transistors on a chip (of a given size) every 18 months and the parallel having of cost per transistor has basically been matched by the growth of data, hence, roughly speaking, our capability to process data has been in synch with the number of …

The increase of thinking capabilities can be pursued by: “engineering” a better “brain” (pretty though, since we do not know yet how it works nor how the genome is shaping it …) Improving processing capabilities through focused stimulation better exploiting its capabilities, including establishing better connection with it, feeding more pertinent …

Life without disease In the last century health care made incredible progresses. Purified water and better food take the lion share in this progress, although they are often underestimated. Drugs, surgery (enabled by anesthesia), antibiotics and more recently anti-immune therapy have fought diseases that were killing millions of people. On …

We are quite familiar with Big Data and we are also quite familiar with Huge Data. The latter are the ones being generated and used every single moment by all of us (posting that picture on Instagram, watching that clip on YouTube….) with the former being the exploitation of that …

The future of Health care, broadly speaking, is progressing along two directions: better understanding of the single individual and leveraging data from a multitude of individuals. Both are fuelled by increasing capability of “seeing” what is going on -that includes the genome sequencing-, thanks to better sensors and harvesting capabilities …

Genetics Possibly the ultimate technology for augmentation could be the genetic manipulation. Clearly this is also the one that brings to the fore most ethical issues and concern. Genetic manipulation has become easier with the CRISPR/Cas 9 technology and laboratory procedures are now becoming standardised and (economically) affordable to scale …