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...Houston-based Texas Medical Center — the largest hospital system in the US — revealed on Wednesday there were 1,350 patients in its intensive care unit wards in the area, surpassing normal capacity of 1,330...
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...PIL took delivery of 13 new ships in 2018 and is developing a blockchain system with DP World, Port of Singapore and IBM for seamless freight handling....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Think not just of automated cars, but also of Google’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service, which allows the company access to sensitive medical records....
...As a result of the products and services these companies are developing, a patient’s primary point of contact with the health system can sometimes now be a remote monitoring centre, or disembodied voice...
...The US Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to 23andMe’s Personal Genome Service, which analyses DNA from a swab of saliva to assess whether an individual is at risk of developing a range of...
...costs for health systems....
...“It really has to do with being uncomfortable about having technology that can re-engage fully disengaged drivers,” says Jim Buczkowski, Ford’s global director of electronics systems, research and innovation...
...Under California’s system, medical marijuana clinics are abundant and are generally happy to hand out recommendation letters to patients with a range of ailments....
...“If you wanted the highest technology, you would look at the revenue and billing systems — how do you better document care and squeeze every nickel out of the insurance company?”...
...They include services such as Google Genomics, a cloud storage service for DNA data for use by medical researchers....
...Instead, it will linger for a week because Pier 400 cannot provide enough dockworkers — the result of an antiquated system for assigning workers to the port’s terminals....
...They were sized, sorted and cut on orders from a software system. Amazing....
...Even the way the company sells cars is shaking up the established retail model by shunning the franchise system and keeping sales and service centres in-house....
...Nvidia, whose work ranges from film production to medical diagnostics, sees the car as its next big opportunity....
...“Medical information is among the most sensitive personal information there is....
...The UK’s National Health Service, for instance, is assessing an “ingestible computing” system from Proteus Digital Health, another Silicon Valley company, which has raised about $300m....
...This is largely rooted in differences between healthcare systems and job security....
...Alongside confirmation of its $3bn acquisition of Beats, the headphone and music-service maker, Apple’s head of internet software and services, Eddy Cue, told the Code conference in California last week:...
...In 2005, John Jones, who oversees pharmacy operations at Geisinger Health System, the health service organisation, liked the idea of using robots known as TUGs and developed by Aethon to act as couriers,...
...The panel held that BurnLounge’s scheme satisfied both prongs of the Webster v....
...Meanwhile, several companies including MakerBot and 3D Systems have begun offering 3D printers and scanners designed for consumers and hobbyists. 3D Systems sells a simple scanner for $1,300 and recently...
...Intuitive’s systems cost $1m-$2m and, with the US medical care system in flux, hospital capital spending was bound to be lumpy....
...Built on the site of a former cannery, Pixar’s fifteen- acre campus, just over the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, was designed, inside and out, by Steve Jobs....
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