From ultrasound machines and ventilators to interactive, data-sharing knee implants and blood-pressure monitors, connecting medical devices over hospital networks and the internet is improving patient care and medical research. The increase in digitally connected devices has created a buoyant technology market known as the “Medical Internet of Things”. By 2029 this software market will be … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Late at night, a knock at the door. A mysterious visitor says the three Roottree sisters have died in a plane crash along with their parents. Every member of their renowned family stands to gain … Read more
For many of their reluctant occupants, hospitals are not seen as shiny incubators of transformative technology. In the popular imagination — in the UK and beyond — many are seen as remaining far too dependent on antiquated postal appointment services and outmoded IT systems, blighted by poor building maintenance, bad food and harsh strip lighting. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A consortium of 12 European universities has embarked on an ambitious project to better prepare health workers for a digital future. The initiative, Sustainable Healthcare with Digital Health Data Competence, or Susa for short, was … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When 91-year-old Gene Lokken fell in his home three years ago and fractured his leg and ankle, he was admitted to a local hospital in Wisconsin, US, and then — still weak and in constant … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Two pioneers of reinforcement learning, a scientific technique that has been fundamental to the artificial intelligence boom, have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI models after winning this year’s Turing Award. Andrew Barto, a … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world G20 finance ministers have been unable to agree a joint communique of their gathering in Cape Town, intensifying questions over the relevance of this body in an era of waning US support for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is to extend the EU’s lenient approach to policing state subsidies, as it unveils guidelines this week that will allow member states to keep pouring cash into cleantech investments until the end of the decade. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including two public security officials, with involvement in a hacker-for-hire campaign on Beijing’s behalf whose targets included American government agencies. The justice department indicted 10 of the Chinese … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a law professor at the American University Washington College of Law Wall Street has long fretted about the disruptive threat from technology to the business of finance. Now with Donald Trump back in … Read more