Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc., three facilities with more than 900 acute care beds and part of Jefferson Health in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is working with IBM to launch cognitive hospital rooms powered by IBM Watson IoT designed to enhance the patient experience and help bring deeper levels of personalised, agile and responsive care to its patients.

Cold plasma, which is made of electrons that change polarity at micro-second or nanosecond speeds, could help bones heal faster, according to a study published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Most people interact with plasma every day. It's in our TVs, fluorescent lights, lightning, the aurora borealis, and the sun. However, these are all examples of hot or "thermal" plasmas.