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Talking Health Tech With Macadamian
On this show, you’ll find a mix of interviews, conference talks, and fireside chats with healthcare industry professionals and our very own product development experts.
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Meet LifePod, Your Amazon Alexa Powered Virtual Caregiver
The Alexa Voice Service and other voice assistants are becoming commonplace as a way of interacting with our favorite products and services. One client came to us to help bring their idea of a connected...
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The Product Innovation Challenge
Innovation does not stem from implementing new technology or design facelift. It is a direct result of clarity around business objectives and customer value.
Read MoreData visualization Best Practices
4 Design Principles for Uncovering Actionable Information Data visualization helps put end-users in the driver’s seat. It enables senior teams to track and report on key performance indicators in an easy to use and understand...
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Hacking Smart Lock Security: The Kwikset Kevo Smart Lock
The Internet of Things has given birth to a boom of connected smart home devices. With these devices, connected via Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, hooked into important functions of the home, the security of these devices...
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Three Ways to Make Alexa Interactions More Natural
As the language model of Alexa expands, the interactions will be more and more natural. With these and other capabilities, richer experiences will be possible, which will bring us closer to seamless ambient computing.
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Tips for Choosing Alexa Skill Names
After the first couple certification attempts, selecting a name for an Alexa Skill seemed as hard as finding a nice and affordable .com domain name. For a Store with, at the time, less than 500...
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Four NLUI Design Ideas that Make a Big Difference
It seems obvious that interacting with a product, app, or skill via speech is very different from interacting with a screen, yet many early offerings use the same design metaphor as traditional graphical user interface...
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Creating a Connected Conference Room
Despite Shiny iPad systems at the door of conference rooms, many people fail to check in, cancel rooms they no longer need, or borrow vacant rooms without booking. To solve these challenges, we have teamed...
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Going From IoT Prototype To Commercial Product
Managing the transition from something that works on a lab bench to a viable IoT product can be tricky, but understanding the technical gaps between conventional and IoT capabilities can illuminate the way.
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Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service in Healthcare
The Amazon Echo and Alexa voice service have been a hit in the consumer market with skills that help you order a pizza or call an Uber. Now with the introduction of the "KidsMD" skill,...
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Integrated Solution Providers: The Team Approach to Healthy IoT Projects
Firms with one specialization will sometimes subcontract skills they don’t have in-house, but that’s a different thing from a truly collaborative partnership among professionals with the autonomy to make the best decisions based on their...
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Five Criteria for Selecting a Healthcare IoT Solutions Provider
Success with IoT can be tricky. It is a constellation of complex technologies from which you need to pick, choose and customize to craft a product that can succeed. Many companies fail in their IoT...
Read MoreHow the Internet of Things Changes Business Models
If you’re considering creating a connected product or service, the Internet of Things will have a profound impact on how your business creates and captures value.
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Project Management in the Healthcare Industry: A Risk Based Approach
One innovative approach to governance and project management is to tailor the type and level of management to the risk assessed for each project, avoiding the costs of treating all projects as though they carried...
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Four Enhancements We Want for the Amazon Echo
Our annual MacHack happened a few weekends ago and as always the teams at Macadamian put in 24 straight hours of hard work to bring some amazing ideas to life. This year many of the...
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