DIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Apple Watch adding EKG monitoring feature — Theranos gets $100 million in financing — Accenture and Roche partner to improve tumor board solution

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a new morning email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by BI Intelligence. Sign up and receive Digital Health Briefing free to your inbox. Have feedback? We’d like to hear from you. Write me at: aaouad@businessinsider.com WHY APPLE IS LOOKING TO BUILD EKG MONITORING INTO WATCH: Apple is developing […]

Arecibo is monitoring potentially hazardous near-earth asteroid

The iconic Arecibo radio telescope has faced quite a few challenges over the last ten years, including budget cuts, a funding crisis and damage from Hurricane Maria. While it may not be the largest radio telescope in the world anymore (that honor belongs to Russia’s RATAN-600), Puerto Rico’s device is still an important asset for […]

7 metrics for monitoring your chatbot’s performance

GUEST: Researchers estimate we will speak to chatbots more than we speak to our spouses by 2020. Obviously, companies that implement chatbots are doing something right. However, businesses still have a hard time determining whether or not their bots are up to snuff. While there are plenty of effective chatbots on the market, there are also many […]

Judge: MalwareTech is no longer under curfew, GPS monitoring

Enlarge / Marcus Hutchins, security researcher for Kryptos Logic. In May, he registered a domain name that neutralized the WCry ransomware worm. In August, he was charged with developing malware called Kronos. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images) A judge in Milwaukee has modified the pre-trial release conditions of Marcus Hutchins, also known online as “MalwareTech,” […]

Russian elections boss proposes stepping up public monitoring of polls

Published time: 9 Oct, 2017 13:42 The head of Russia’s Central Elections Commission has suggested to President Vladimir Putin an increase in the monitoring of voting by representatives of political parties and non-government groups, in order to further boost political transparency. Read more “We should consider increasing the public monitoring of elections, I mean bringing […]

Cash-strapped police relax monitoring of sex offender to focus on ‘high-risk’ criminals

British police forces are to scale back on their monitoring of sex offenders, including rapists, to focus on higher-risk criminals, the National Police Chiefs’ Council has said. Under the new scheme, the risk sex offenders pose to the public will be reassessed, and thorough measures originally designed to stop them from reoffending, such as annual […]