Author: OurCrowd

[MedAware in FiercePharma] MedAware’s script-error tool for docs could help marketers plenty, too, CEO says

May 17, 2017 |

Med mix-ups are a dangerous problem–and one Israel’s MedAware is working to address with an intelligent system that calls out would-be prescription errors based on doc-habit data and information from patients’ own medical records. In collecting that info, though, MedAware’s system also picked up key data on prescribing patterns that has the potential to be very valuable to pharma marketers. The company has aggregated millions of prescriptions and full medical records—including blood tests, diagnoses, admissions, outpatient visits and more—to create mathematical models that describe which patients are likely to be prescribed which drugs, and at what point in their condition and treatment, cofounder and CEO Gidi Stein explained in an interview. Read more on FiercePharma...

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[BioCatch in MarketWatch] Americans are more likely to pay digital ransoms after cyberattacks

May 16, 2017 |

So why are cyberattack on this scale? And why now? “We believe ransomware is often directed at organizations because the payout is higher and in many cases, it is often cheaper to pay the ransom than attempt to combat the attack,” said Frances Zelazny, vice president of cybersecurity company BioCatch. “There is a shortage of personnel with cybersecurity expertise and this makes organizations that much more vulnerable, which makes more of a case for building resilience and real-time response.” Read more on MarketWatch...

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[Nanorep in The Australian] Nanorep eyes Australian shores

May 16, 2017 |

Israeli smart bot solutions provider Nanorep is looking to make inroads in the Australian market with senior executive Mark Granot confident that its technology can shake up the local self-service market. Nanorep’s vice president of Alliances and Partners, Mark Granot, said that the continued evolution of virtual assistants is forcing businesses to rethink their approaches to customer service. Read more on The Australian...

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[CropX in CNBC] 10 Israeli high-tech areas making waves

May 15, 2017 |

Drip irrigation may have been around in one form or another since the Chinese wrote about it in the first century, but the system was made viable for modern agriculture by advances in Israel in the 1950s and 60s. Now, half a century later, the emphasis is on high-tech applications for water management and extraction. Two examples are CropX, a start-up that uses sensors to optimize irrigation, and Prospera, an artificial intelligence software company that combines the use of field cameras and machine learning for farm production management. Then there are completely new types of agriculture technology tools exemplified by Taranis, an information gathering and data analysis platform for farmers that can be used on a cell phone or tablet. Read more on CNBC...

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[Syqe in CNBC] 10 Israeli high-tech areas making waves

May 15, 2017 |

As with many other high-tech fields, Israel’s medical technology advances have come in large part from the defense sector. One company, based in Ohio but started by two Israelis, is Surgical Theater, where two former air force officers use virtual reality flight simulator technology in brain surgery modeling. Other start-ups also are highly interdisciplinary, such as Zebra Medical Vision, which teaches computers to read and diagnose medical imaging, for example x-rays. And, on a high note, Israel is at the forefront when it comes to the technological application of medical marijuana, as in the Syqe inhaler for which the company raised $20 million in 2016, for which it has signed a distribution deal with Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva. Read more on CNBC...

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