Dyson has invested in a number of health tech startups including 23andMe, Crohnology, Genomera, HealthTap, Health Rally, Keas, Medivo, Omada Health, PatientsLike Me and Voxiva.
The biggest winners of the year were, far and away, the health-tech companies.
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Certainly a bigger share of household income is being spent on things that did not feature 50 years ago, such as high-tech health care.
In terms of sectors, we are seeing many opportunities in clean tech, health care and services.
Health care and bio tech companies might be just the place to look though, as the government has certainly taken an interest in health care, says Darrell Jobman, senior analyst at TraderPlanet.com.
Two years later, Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) swooped in to buy a similarly ailing Bankers Trust, attracted by its expertise in advising emerging U.S. tech and health care firms.
You're seeing companies like Wal-Mart lobbying for health care reform, and you're seeing the tech community get involved in health care reform as employers.
You're seeing companies like Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) lobbying for health care reform, and you're seeing the tech community get involved in health care reform as employers.
Previously known for its now-shuttered steel mills, it has become a hub for the tech industry, health care, education and financial services.
Investors looking for individual stocks should consider health care, energy and tech stocks with above-average dividend yields, says Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
With the fading of science sections from newspapers, where is the science for the science consumer, the readers into health, medicine, chemistry, tech, environment, physics, and the less well-defined category of Really Cool Scientific Shit?
The firm now boasts 11 billion yuan in assets and some 100 subsidiaries, mostly involved in health care of an increasingly high-tech nature.
The tech rivals launched similar personal health record services in 2007.
He also announced that three million patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes or heart conditions are to get hi-tech equipment to monitor their health at home.
Its anchor companies span the range from agriculture and food products (Cargill, General Mills) to medium tech (3M) to aviation (Cirrus Design) to health care (Medtronic) to retail (Best Buy, Target) to a cluster of tech startups in the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis.
As for health care, it could become a growth industry, such as high tech or the biomedical industry, if we removed the obstacles to people's controlling more of their health care dollars.
They favor tech and energy companies and also like health care and manufacturing.
Its focus remains on consumer web services, mobile and marketplaces, but it is also looking for tech companies in education, finance and health care.
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About 300 doctors, health policy wonks and others attending that high-tech meeting received what was dubbed a "smartphone physical" from medical students using 10 of the latest devices.
So too will the recurring arguments about so-called 'health rationing' and 'postcode lotteries' as yet more high-tech, high-cost treatments become available, but at what price?
The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.
Those countries are home to private health care chains that target international patients and are building modern, high-tech hospitals with a reputation for quality care.
Problems related to misidentifying patients and accessing their health information in a timely manner have eroded trust in the current low-tech system, which is why we need a new approach.
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In the immediate moments after the announcement, tech pundits seemed far more concerned with the state of Jobs' health than the future of the company that relies on him as its creative core.
It often takes two years to obtain the environmental health and safety permits to build a modern electronic plant, a lifetime in the tech world.
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After seven weeks on this low-tech form of medicine, recommended by his doctor and designed by California health guru Dr. Dean Ornish, Wes Miller started to get better.
"It's very low tech and the basic requirements are that the police and local government and health meet from time to time in an organised way, " Prof Shepherd said.
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This June 5, the best and bright brightest of the food tech community are being invited to showcase your work in at the third annual Health Datapalooza.
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After the Virginia Tech shooting, Congress passed a law to encourage states to report mental-health records by offering grants and threatening to dock federal funding if states don't meet certain thresholds.
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Even as state and federal officials prepare to roll out the exchanges, Brian Hassan, founder of BayPoint Benefits, a San Francisco-based health-insurance consulting firm for technology startups, says he has met with budding entrepreneurs at large tech firms who put their startup plans on hold after crunching the numbers.
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