According to scientists and certain optimistic enthusiasts, we might be ready to send the first person to Mars as early as 2034! Even as we speak, preparations are underway to give shape to this unimaginable challenge, and the eager queue…
Anyone who takes a good look at the Dutch healthcare sector may get a feeling of ‘abundance and unease’. Annually, all of us together spend approximately 95 billion euros on health and wellbeing; the Dutch healthcare system is one of…
Clinicards have been designed to be used flexibly for a wide variety of healthcare solutions through measurements of Patient Generated Health Data. Home monitoring is something of a godsend and the OLVG Hospital has started relying on Clinicards to improve…
Every self-respecting management book for startups will tell you that “no product survives its first contact with the users“. Experiencing this hard lesson firsthand, is something of a blessing as well as a curse. A curse because it utterly shatters…
The areas of User Interface design and User Experience design are constantly progressing. We have kept tabs on these developments and set out three of the latest trends for you in this newsletter.
The book ‘Collective Intelligence’ recently hit the shelves. Co-author Wendy Jansen is a researcher in organizational science and information management. She became fascinated by the similarities between our brain and organizations, and wondered how animals, with usually very small brains,…
At Synappz we continue to stay abreast of new technology, including Virtual Reality. My intrinsic personal motivation to stay informed and to continue to feed my ‘inner geek' led me to attend several Virtual Reality meetups over the past few…
Team Synappz was present at the MS Hackathon on 20 and 21 May. We spent the weekend working on our Ms. Jarvis concept, a self-learning digital personal-assistant wholly based on speech. Through artificial intelligence Ms. Jarvis gets to know the…
The Synappz Team participated in the mHealth Hackathon in Brussels where we underwent a seriously intense weekend filled with plenty of memorable moments! Fourteen teams battled it out to ‘hack’ something brilliant together within an impossibly short timeframe. It’s typical…
