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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new smartphone application still in development may someday help parents and health care providers screen for jaundice in newborns.
Early testing found that the application has greater accuracy than visual exams performed by doctors, according to research presented September 16 at the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014) in Seattle, Washington.Dr. James Taylor, a pediatrician at the University of Seattle who is helping to develop the technology, told Reuters Health by email that when it’s ready for release, the BiliCam's performance might compare to that of a much more expensive jaundice diagnostic device, the transcutaneous bilirubinometer. “We think that BiliCam will be useful by relieving anxiety of parents about jaundice,” Dr. Taylor said. It will also provide an inexpensive, reliable tool to help doctors determine when newborns with jaundice need urgent treatment, he added. His team believes the BiliCam will reduce healthcare costs by earlier identification of babies who need treatment, when it’s easier and cheaper to deliver it.The BiliCam is named after bilirubin, a yellowish pigment produced by the normal breakdown of red blood cells. Bilirubin passes through the liver on its way out of the body. When levels of bilirubin in the blood are high (a condition known as hyperbilirubinemia), it might mean there’s a problem with the liver. When levels become extremely high, patients develop jaundice, with yellowing of the skin or the whites of the eyes.

By Andy Mukherjee By Andy Mukherjee The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.South Korea’s finance minister has warned that the economy is entering “an early stage of deflation”. His admonition should stir the country’s central bank from slumber.Since March 2012, the Korean inflation rate has been below the midpoint of the Bank of Korea’s 2.5-to-3.5 percent target. Yet the monetary authority has been reluctant to cut interest rates for fear that lower borrowing costs could swell the ageing society’s large household debt pile.This cautious approach mimics the now-abandoned strategy of Sweden’s Riksbank. Korea’s household debt was 164 percent of disposable income in 2012 – similar to Sweden’s 172 percent.But failing to conjure up inflation has backfired. Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan said on Aug. 29 that “the economy could get mired in a protracted slump”. He is right. The Korean won’s real exchange rate in the past six months has been 7 percent higher than in the first half of 2013.

Singapore's
civil aviation authority has asked airlines based in the
city-state to review their risk assessment of conflict zones
following the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines
jetliner over Ukraine last week.

AUSTIN, TX, Oct 03 (Marketwire) --
The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today announced
that Qualcomm Incorporated has joined as a Founder Member. Qualcomm's
commitment reinforces HSA as the next technological underpinning in
computing for a broad range of platforms and devices. Since its formation
in June, the HSA Foundation has more than doubled its membership with new
Founder, Supporter, Contributor and Associate members that have joined
the consortium.

Qualcomm joins AMD (NYSE: AMD), ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek
Inc., Samsung Electronics Ltd. and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) as
founder members of the HSA Foundation. The companies are working together
to drive a single architecture specification, which simplifies the
programming model for software developers on modern platforms and
devices. The HSA Foundation will unlock the performance and power
efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in heterogeneous
processors.

"It's great to see an innovative company like Qualcomm, which has
revolutionized the wireless communications market, placing their support
behind HSA," said Phil Rogers, HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate
Fellow. "With HSA, computing becomes much more power efficient, enabling
member companies like Qualcomm, to create unique and compelling
experiences for the consumer."

"Future Snapdragon processors from Qualcomm will contain substantially
more computing performance and integrated parallel processing technology
in order to meet the high performance, low power needs of our mobile
customers," said Jim Thompson, senior vice president of engineering at
Qualcomm. "We believe that developers will be able to deliver faster and
more innovative applications on future Snapdragon processors if certain
aspects of heterogeneous computing are standardized, so we are pleased to
join the HSA Foundation to help define open standards."

HSA Foundation continues to build momentum throughout the industry and
will be delivering technical presentations at the IEEE International
Conference on Computer Design, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2012; and at the 2012
ARM TechCon, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1.

Supporting Resources


-- For additional information about HSA and the HSA Foundation visit the
HSA Foundation website at www.hsafoundation.com.
-- Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter: @HSAFoundation.
-- "Like" the HSA Foundation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HSAFoundation.



About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System
Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP
vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make
it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a
heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for
combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the
GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application
performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel
computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function
devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming
languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose
computing.

The HSA Foundation logo is a trademark of the Heterogeneous System
Architecture Foundation. Other names are for informational purposes only
and may be trademarks of their respective owners.



Contact:
Greg Wood
Edelman for HSA Foundation
(650) 762-2838
greg.wood@edelman.com

Copyright 2012, Marketwire, All rights reserved.

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