The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted Sun Microsystems' Java card technology primarily to prevent identity theft, according to a statement from the computing firm. The distribution of the 22 million health cards, started...
Intel, for instance, is working on a programme to develop computer systems that will help monitor the behaviour of Alzheimer's patients. Breakthroughs such as the mapping of the human genome have opened up new horizons in drug discovery and health...
By offering up their funds, governments and corporations are all seeking to reap the potential economic, national defence and health benefits of the new industry. The US government plans to plow nearly $1bn into nanotech research during fiscal 2004...
But corporations and venture capitalists are beginning to eye the field as a potential source of new products and profits, according to Packard and other executives who spoke at this year's Nano Science and Technology Institute Nanotechnology...
Already, Intel has hired social scientists to conduct studies to determine where hospitals or health care workers could integrate PC technology. Intel on Monday announced a company reorganisation that will create five new divisions, including two...
The user interface project is part of a broader health care initiative at Microsoft, which now has 600 people in the area, up from 200 workers just two years ago. Intel has their own initiative in this space," he said.