Twenty percent of all premature babies contract serious infections while in the hospital. By harnessing millions of heartbeat measurements from the ICU each day, Dr. Carolyn McGregor found she could detect a baby's infection at least one...

We're moving into a person-centric world where people and medical providers have access to genetic data. When a person's genome is sequenced, the known differences can help doctors predict their risk for disease, whether or not they are...

We are living in the age of information. Everything related to our health is now data: how we feel, how we react to a drug, and even what our genetic code is. Individually, collecting this data from cheap and accessible sensors helps us...

Until recently, the only way to detect a flu epidemic was by accumulating information submitted by doctors about patient visits. This process took about two weeks to reach the CDC - much too long to be effective. In an effort to improve...

Former Senior Advisor for Innovation of the U.S. Dept. of State discusses how diplomacy can be performed with changing global demographics, with changing power structures, and most prominently with a series of new technological tools....

Incredible amounts of data are produced every day, so much that we can't use it all. Big data is a term used to describe the tools and processes that seek to make this data useful and productive. This video uses the example of traffic...