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Is emotional support part of AI's future in healthcare?
By Laura Lovett | 04:28 pm | October 18, 2018
MIT's Cynthia Breazeal is developing "social robots" that could help care for patients' emotional wellbeing. 
How a wearable built for autism could lead to a new understanding of seizures
By Jonah Comstock | 07:06 am | November 02, 2015
One of the great but nebulous promises of wearable health trackers is that, by monitoring something 24-7 that previously was only ever monitored intermittently, it will help us discover new things about our bodies and health.
Joi Ito: Doctor plus super computer will be winning combination for patients
By Aditi Pai | 06:57 am | November 02, 2015
The human-computer combination will be a winning combination in digital health, according to Joi Ito, director for the MIT Lab, who spoke at the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium in Boston this week.
Partners' Engagement Engine and 7 more RWJF-backed digital health projects
By Jonah Comstock | 12:37 pm | March 25, 2015
A screenshot from Share the Journey.
Empatica crowdfunding Embrace, a wearable for epilepsy
By Jonah Comstock | 09:09 am | January 07, 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy-based Empatica is crowdfunding a new wristworn tracker device, Embrace, which brings clinically validated tracking methods to the consumer market.