Evan Matsumoto

The future of health care is on your phone. As industries increasingly rely on mobile technologies to meet demands of a changing audience, health care has lagged behind. But the push to catch up is on. At the WRAL TechWire event The Future of Mobile Health on Tuesday at the City Club in Raleigh, developers and health care professionals discussed how the landscape of mobile healthcare is evolving today. Joanna Rohde, CEO and founder of Raleigh-based Axial Exchange, said the way patient information moves from hospitals and doctors to post-visit facilities is inefficient. The trickle of information distributed on...

Travis Jack unloaded a drone out of his car on Tuesday and placed it on the ground. Drones don’t like the cold as much as people, he said, as he grabbed a tablet-sized remote control and a tripod from the trunk. Cold weather – it was 30 degrees outside – saps juice from the drone’s already short battery life. Jack’s drone isn’t the small toy kind that buzzes through the living room and bounces off walls, though – his drone costs $15,000, has six propellers and sounds like a swarm of hornets. Travis and Megan Jack make up the...