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At the recent NetEvents global media summit in San Jose, Professor Martin Curley outlined his reasons that the healthcare is around ten years behind other industries in the path to digitalisation.

Global tech giant Ericsson has partnered with fellow Swedish company - health-tech provider Brighter - to launch a complete IoT health solution, Actiste, for monitoring and treating insulin-dependent diabetes.

Seniors and baby boomers have joined the younger, healthy set in using fitness tracking devices, according to new research which shows that the older brigade in Australia are emerging as a major market for fitness tracking devices as they take up health technology and devices as rapidly as young people.

Technology first conceived to keep watch over the world's financial markets and spot rogue activity has been tweaked for the health sector - and is now being rolled out to make sure that health insurance claims and hospital funding requests are the real McCoy. Such systems could potentially save what's euphemistically referred to as 'leakage' - or fraud and error - running to hundreds of millions of dollars each year in Australia.