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Friday, January 11, 2019
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Jan 11, 2019 — No. 118
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Jan 11, 2019 — No. 118
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GLOBAL EVENT LIST
This is a crowdsourced list of global conferences and events focused on or relevant to digital health.
FEATURED EVENTS
NONE AT THIS TIME
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Please contact me for options on event promotion, including having your event featured at the top of this list, featured in my weekly Digital Health group announcements, newsletter, and on Twitter.
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jan 11
Greetings!
EDITORIAL NOTE: To save time in compiling this newsletter, many stories below will simply be an image (including headline text of the article, which is created when I post these as discussions in my Digital Health group on LinkedIn) that is hyperlinked to the actual news story on the source website. Simply click on the picture to be taken to the news or other site, e.g. the U.S. FDA’s website. — Paul
Digital Health Funding 2018
In its biggest year so far, funding for digital health totalled $14.6 billion in 2018. According to data compiled by Startup Health, this amount is approximately 14 times what it was in 2010, when it barely tipped $1B. Their report adds that “virtually every sector of healthcare is thinking about, or already leveraging digital. In 2018, newer niche sub-sectors gained increased attention from investors, including machine learning, blockchain, AI, and IoT. In other words, in 2019, digital health = health. On the other hand, old habits die hard. There is still a temptation to rely on incremental, band-aid innovation out of necessity because that’s what customers are buying and what investors are funding.”
Smart Cities vs. Consumer Privacy
All too often, “smart city tech” is a smokescreen hiding pervasive & needless stockpiling of residents’ data. Check out @ACLU_NorCal’s guide to these issues… – @Matt_Cagle
Technology & Civil Liberties Attorney ACLU NorCal (via tweet)
INNOVATION
No stethoscope for pain: Scientists seek real way to measure
LIVING & SOCIETY
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
Court says Vizio’s secret smart TV tracking class-action settlement can move forward
I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
Meet The Women Who Have To Sneak Onto Facebook
Toyota Wants World to Use Its Tech That Keeps Cars From Crashing
Robot ‘Killed’ After Being ‘Run Over’ By Self-Driving Tesla
REGULATION
HEALTH & FITNESS
FUNDING
Alphabet’s Verily gets $1 billion in funding round led by Silver Lake
Electronics giant Philips invests in monitoring and information platform for expecting mothers
Sophia Genetics bags $77M Series E, with 850+ hospitals signed up to its ‘data-driven medicine’
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Copyright © 2019 Paul Sonnier, Story of Digital Health
Paul Sonnier
Advisor ⋅ Author ⋅ Speaker ⋅ Technologist ⋅ Social Entrepreneur
Book: The Fourth Wave: Digital Health
Founder, Digital Health group on LinkedIn
Creator, Story of Digital Health
Twitter: @Paul_Sonnier
San Diego, CA, USA
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Monday, December 31, 2018
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Dec 31, 2018 — No. 117
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Dec 31, 2018 — No. 117
My newsletter for Dec 31, 2018 is viewable here and inline text below, without images.
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JOIN THE 65,000+ MEMBER DIGITAL HEALTH GROUP ON LINKEDIN!
If you’re on LinkedIn, please do join the Digital Health group, which I founded in 2009. The group serves to advance knowledge and build relationships between people interested in the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society.
READ MY BOOK
My book, “The Fourth Wave: Digital Health” is available in digital and paperback at Amazon.com, here. You can also learn more about the book, here.
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
Follow me on Twitter @Paul_Sonnier for all the news I share each day.
MY SERVICES
I’m available to deliver my keynote address at conferences and corporate events. I also offer event and entity advertising in my 65,000+ member Digital Health LinkedIn group, newsletter, and on my website. Advertising with me puts your event, content, product, and/or service in front of tens of thousands of global readers each week. I’m also available for strategic consulting. Contact me for my media kit, standard plans, and pricing.
GLOBAL EVENT LIST
This is a crowdsourced list of global conferences and events focused on or relevant to digital health.
FEATURED EVENTS
Digital Medicine and Medtech Showcase, Jan 8-9, 2019 in San Francisco, CA
EVENT PROMOTION
Please contact me for options on event promotion, including having your event featured at the top of this list, featured in my weekly Digital Health group announcements, newsletter, and on Twitter.
SUBMITTING AN EVENT
Please provide the event name, date(s), event website link (direct and not a shortened url), one-paragraph event description, the venue name, and location (city and country). Not all events are relevant to digital health and webinars are typically not allowed, but you can ask me about promotion options.
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Dec 31
Greetings!
Researchers at the CZ Biohub division of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) have published a report in Nature on the results of a wireless implantable brain device system called the WAND. As Erin Brodwin at BI reports, in a new study on primates, the system is able to record, stimulate, and disrupt or even stop movement in real time. The method is being described as a therapy intended to treat diseases like epilepsy or Parkinson’s by stopping a seizure or other disruptive motion just as it starts. The research is reportedly being conducted in isolation from Facebook’s related work with brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
In another study published in Nature, an implanted battery-free self-powered vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device was shown to be effective at producing weight control in rats. The device, which automatically generates electrical stimulations in correlation to stomach movement, kept the average body weight controlled at 350 g, or 38% less than the control groups. Basically, the system fools the rat’s brain into thinking that it has a full stomach.
HEALTHCARE DISRUPTION
In contrast to alarmist concerns that the Apple Watch’s new ECG feature may place an increased burden on the healthcare system that it can’t handle as currently set up, there are incidences emerging of the Watch’s built-in electrocardiogram (ECG) function detecting previously-undiagnosed unusual heart rhythm associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart failure. For example, after updating his Watch’s software, a Richmond, Virginia man was immediately alerted him that he may have atrial fibrillation. Doctors later confirmed that he did have a-fib, which “occurs when abnormal electrical impulses causes (sic) the top chambers of the heart, the atria, to quiver and spasm. Blood can pool in heart chambers affected by a-fib, increasing the risk of stroke-causing blood clots. People with a-fib often are prescribed blood thinners.”
LIVING & SOCIETY
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the following “FYI: thanks to anti-net neutrality FCC Leadership, your text messages can now be monitored, censored, or blocked. Those concerned w/ privacy are moving away from default cell texting. There are alternative texting app recommendations in this article.”
According to Brian Hauss, an attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project: “Should it be a crime to call public officials corrupt? Yes, according to the police in Exeter, New Hampshire. Earlier this year, they arrested a local man for writing a comment on a news website accusing Police Chief William Shupe of covering for a corrupt officer.”
REGULATORY APPROVALS
The FDA has approved Teva Pharmaceuticals’ ProAir Digihaler, which the company describes as “the first and only digital inhaler with built-in sensors which connects to a companion mobile application and provides inhaler use information to people with asthma and COPD.”
GENOMICS
Dr. He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created an international uproar after announcing that he had created the first genetically edited babies, is reportedly being held under house arrest in a guesthouse at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
Consumers receiving surprise DNA family family relationship test results are calling into 23andMe’s customer service line and, effectively, turning the reps into therapists of a sort. According to Kent Hillyer, head of customer care for 23andMe: “We don’t really play the role of therapist, but rather listen and try to be sympathetic and empathetic, getting them to process things.”
FUNDING
Tridiuum, a venture-backed maker of a software platform that tracks behavioral health indicators, just raised $9.5 million Series B round with an eye to scaling its sales, product and marketing operations.
K Health, which provides consumers with an AI-powered primary healthcare platform, has raised $25 million in Series B funding.
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Copyright © 2018 Paul Sonnier, Story of Digital Health
Paul Sonnier
Advisor ⋅ Author ⋅ Speaker ⋅ Technologist ⋅ Social Entrepreneur
Book: The Fourth Wave: Digital Health
Founder, Digital Health group on LinkedIn
Creator, Story of Digital Health
Twitter: @Paul_Sonnier
San Diego, CA, USA
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Monday, December 17, 2018
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Dec 17, 2018 — No. 116
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Dec 17, 2018 — No. 116
My newsletter for Dec 17, 2018 is viewable here and inline text below, without images.
Sign up for free, here.
JOIN THE 65,000+ MEMBER DIGITAL HEALTH GROUP ON LINKEDIN!
If you’re on LinkedIn, please do join the Digital Health group, which I founded in 2009. The group serves to advance knowledge and build relationships between people interested in the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society.
READ MY BOOK
My book, “The Fourth Wave: Digital Health” is available in digital and paperback at Amazon.com, here. You can also learn more about the book, here.
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
Follow me on Twitter @Paul_Sonnier for all the news I share each day.
MY SERVICES
I’m available to deliver my keynote address at conferences and corporate events. I also offer event and entity advertising in my 64,000+ member Digital Health LinkedIn group, newsletter, and on my website. Advertising with me puts your event, content, product, and/or service in front of tens of thousands of global readers each week. I’m also available for strategic consulting. Contact me for my media kit, standard plans, and pricing.
GLOBAL EVENT LIST
This is a crowdsourced list of global conferences and events focused on or relevant to digital health.
FEATURED EVENTS
Digital Medicine and Medtech Showcase, Jan 8-9, 2019 in San Francisco, CA
EVENT PROMOTION
Please contact me for options on event promotion, including having your event featured at the top of this list, featured in my weekly Digital Health group announcements, newsletter, and on Twitter.
SUBMITTING AN EVENT
Please provide the event name, date(s), event website link (direct and not a shortened url), one-paragraph event description, the venue name, and location (city and country). Not all events are relevant to digital health and webinars are typically not allowed, but you can ask me about promotion options.
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Dec 11
Greetings!
Pear Therapeutics has received FDA clearance for its reSET-O system as a treatment for patients recovering from opioid abuse disorder. According to the FDA’s announcement, reSET-O is used “to help increase retention (the amount of time a patient participates) in an outpatient treatment program for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). The reSET-O app is a prescription cognitive behavioral therapy intended to be used in addition to outpatient treatment under the care of a health care professional, in conjunction with treatment that includes buprenorphine and contingency management. Contingency management is a behavior modification intervention that establishes a connection between new, targeted behavior and the opportunity to obtain a desired reward.”
A new patent application by Amazon combines face surveillance with Ring, the smart doorbell camera company acquired by Amazon earlier this year. The system would enable homeowners and the police to match the faces of people walking with images of “suspicious” people contained in a photo database. Moreover, homeowners can add photos of people they deem to be “suspicious” into the system. Jacob Snow, a Technology and Civil Liberties Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, states that “Amazon is dreaming of a dangerous future, with its technology at the center of a massive decentralized surveillance network, running real-time facial recognition on members of the public using cameras installed in people’s doorbells.” Snow adds that “The ACLU and other civil rights groups have repeatedly warned that face surveillance poses an unprecedented threat to civil liberties and civil rights that must be stopped before it becomes widespread. The history of discriminatory government surveillance makes clear that face surveillance will disproportionately harm people already targeted by the government and subjected to racial profiling and abuse—immigrants, people of color, and the formerly incarcerated.”
In related news, Taylor Swift concert-goers viewing a screen playing rehearsal clips were unwittingly scanned by a facial recognition system seeking to identify the singer’s known stalkers.
LIVING & SOCIETY
Anti-robot vigilantes in Arizona are trying to scare off Waymo’s self-driving cars. According to The Arizona Republic, “People have thrown rocks at Waymos. The tire on one was slashed while it was stopped in traffic. The vehicles have been yelled at, chased and one Jeep was responsible for forcing the vans off roads six times.”
Vitaminwater has announced a promotional contest that will result in it giving $100,000 to someone who can ditch their smartphone for a year. And even if someone is able to make it just six months, they will receive $10,000.
A group of people who had to abandon their capsized boat off the coast of Okinawa, Japan were able to use an iPhone to call for help.
Bad news if you’re a Google-based Android smartphone user, as unlike the Apple iPhone X, it was unable to defend against being opened using face-unlocking with 3D-printed replicas of a human head.
Facebook revealed that a bug in a photo API gave app developers access to the photos of millions of users, including images that they had uploaded but never shared. The bug also allowed developers to access user’s timeline photos, Facebook Stories, and Marketplace photos.
GENOMICS
A recent experiment involving giving people fake DNA test results found that this knowledge can produce a placebo effect. In the study, people who were told they had the high-risk version of a gene linked to their capacity for aerobic exercise ran for a smaller amount of time than they did before the study. Also, people who were told they had the protective version of a gene linked to hunger cues, reported being less hungry than before.
REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS
From the FDA… Digital Health Update: FDA Report on Non-Device Software Functions Now Available
“Today, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) published a report that highlights the agency’s findings, in general, on the five software functions excluded from the device definition by the 21st Century Cures Act. These software functions range from software that offers administrative support to a health care facility to software that helps patients keep a healthy lifestyle but is not specific to a treatment of a disease, among others. The FDA found these software functions have more benefits than risks to patient safety and health. The report also details best practices related to implementation and training that could promote safety, education, and competency.”
From NICE… Evidence standards framework for digital health technologies
“As digital health technologies develop at an increasing pace, we’ve worked with partners to develop standards that ensure new technologies are clinically effective and offer economic value.
The aim of these standards is to make it easier for innovators and commissioners to understand what good levels of evidence for digital healthcare technologies look like, while meeting the needs of the health and care system, patients, and users.”
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Copyright © 2018 Paul Sonnier, Story of Digital Health
Paul Sonnier
Advisor ⋅ Author ⋅ Speaker ⋅ Technologist ⋅ Social Entrepreneur
Book: The Fourth Wave: Digital Health
Founder, Digital Health group on LinkedIn
Creator, Story of Digital Health
Twitter: @Paul_Sonnier
San Diego, CA, USA
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