Healthcare organizations are under consistent, heavy pressure to manage their costs, but patients also have a big role to play in managing healthcare costs by working to take better care of themselves. But what can stakeholders do to get many, if not most, patients to take on that responsibility? That's the question Kumar Srinivas, CTO for the health plan group at NTT DATA, a data management services provider, takes up in a recent commentary at Forbes. In his view, while it's obvious there is little health plans can do to force their patients to improve their preventative health regimens, there are things that can be done to "nudge" them along the same path. He cites a recent book co-authored by an economist and a law professor that describes how people can be "nudged" to make better decisions on a range of personal issues.

An algorithm which builds on past advertising data to train a Deep Neural Network which "translates" advertisements into optimized ads that are more likely to be clicked. This algorithm is applied to two health related domains: Medical Symptoms and Preventative Healthcare. The generated ads are predicted to have higher click-through rates and contain more calls-to-action, demonstrating the ability to automatically optimize advertisement for the health domain.

Imagine a world where smart pantries sense when you are running out of your favourite food and order more of it, without you lifting a finger. Where intelligent robots roam your supermarket, ever at your service. Where dynamic food pricing changes minute-to-minute depending on the weather outside, or what the store down the road is offering. Amazon workers'refuse' to build tech for US immigration It may sound like a seismic shift in our food retail world, but these technological frontiers are real and the food sector is gearing up in a big way. What is less certain is what impact such changes will have on our health.

The world's largest dementia research experiment, which takes the form of a video game, has indicated the ability to navigate declines throughout life. The findings, presented at the Neuroscience 2016 conference, harnessed data from 2.4 million people who downloaded the game. Getting lost is one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. And the researchers at University College London believe the results could help make a dementia test. Sea Hero Quest is a nautical adventure to save an old sailor's lost memories.