How to get and stay sober during the COVID-19 quarantine

Posted on 15/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The coronavirus pandemic and its resulting quarantine counter-measures have people around the world shuttered in their homes with little to do but fret. So it’s not surprising that a March survey from the American Psychiatric Association found that t...

Amazon’s first HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills help track your healthcare

Posted on 04/04/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Alexa's involvement in healthcare is about to extend well beyond putting Echo speakers in hospital rooms. Amazon has unveiled the first-ever HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills, letting you use the voice assistant to take care of sensitive medical issues. P...

Amazon reportedly wants Alexa to be your new in-home physician

Posted on 10/05/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Jeff Bezos made headlines in January when his company announced that it would be partnering with JP Morgan and Warren Buffet to reduce the cost of healthcare services here in America. Apparently the first step towards this goal is teaching Alexa how...

There’s an iPhone App for LGBTQ health says PRIDE researchers

Posted on 28/06/2015 by Jessica Hannan

The PRIDE Study is looking to take on the long-term effects of health within the LGBTQ community. And it's available on an iPhone app. Working the University of California San Francisco, the goal is...

Rhode Island Focuses on Social Media Apps in Rise of STDs

Posted on 31/05/2015 by Jessica Hannan

The Rhode Island Department of Health declared the rise of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is in part due to social media hookups.Between 2013 and 2014, cases of syphilis rose by 79% and...

Man Who Allegedly Stole Michael Schumacher’s Files And To Sell Them Found Dead

Posted on 07/08/2014 by Jessica Hannan

The former Rega ambulance employee accused of stealing Michael Schumacher's medical documents and reports was found dead in his cell on Wednesday, Aug 6. Suspect in Michael Schumacher medical...

TigerText adds secure messaging to Dropbox in bid to rid the world of bicycle couriers

Posted on 16/07/2012 by Daniel Cooper

Secure messaging outfit TigerText has mixed its sauce with Dropbox's API to make a private communications goulash that could spell doom for the humble bicycle courier. The technological team-up enables users to share documents with a pre-set lifespan and recall an attachment if you really didn't mean to send your boss so many cat pictures. Thanks to its HIPAA-compliant encryption, the documents you push around cannot be downloaded, copied or forwarded, making it ideal for law firms, medical agencies and movie studios that currently blow thousands of dollars on using messengers to take secret stuff 'round town.

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