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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ Aug 13, 2018 ⋅ #338
Announcement to 64,275 Digital Health Group Members
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jul 27
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will allow marketing of the Natural Cycles app by Swedish company NaturalCycles Nordic AB. This is the first approval by FDA of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) digital health solution intended to prevent pregnancy. The app went through the de novo premarket review pathway for novel, low-to-moderate-risk devices of a new type.
Natural Cycles uses a combination of daily body temperature readings, menstrual cycle information, and an algorithm to calculate the days of the month when a woman is most likely to be fertile. When used for contraception, the app tells women to abstain from sex or use protection (e.g. condoms) when they are most likely to be fertile. According to Terri Cornelison, MD, assistant director for the Health of Women at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health: “Consumers are increasingly using digital health technologies to inform their everyday health decisions, and this new app can provide an effective method of contraception if it’s used carefully and correctly. But women should know that no form of contraception works perfectly, so an unplanned pregnancy could still result from correct usage of this device.”
Researchers at the University of Toledo in the United States report that prolonged exposure to the blue lightemitted by smartphones and screens for other digital devices (e.g. laptops and tablets) damages vision and can speed up blindness in humans. This is due to the light hitting the retina and creating a toxic molecule that can cause macular degeneration. According to Dr. Ajith Karunarathne, an assistant professor: “We are being exposed to blue light continuously and the eye’s cornea and lens cannot block or reflect it. It’s no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye’s retina. Our experiments explain how this happens, and we hope this leads to therapies that slow macular degeneration, such as a new kind of eye drop.”
LIVING AND SOCIETY
According to an investigation by The Times UK, Google funds a campaigning website named OpenMedia that encourages people to spam politicians and newspapers with automated messages backing its policy goals and ones that benefit Silicon Valley in general. Recently, the site bombarded EU politicians with phone calls opposing proposed online copyright rules.
According to an investigation by the Associated Press, Google is tracking your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to on your Android or iPhone smartphone.
Freelance workers on the Upwork digital freelancer platform are being forced to opt in to invasive tracking software. The company uses Work Diary software to save screenshots, measure the frequency of clicks and keystrokes, plus take webcam photos of workers.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a California welfare agency may have violated state law by using a database of information derived from automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. According to the EFF: “ALPR data can paint an intimate portrait of a driver’s life and be used to target drivers who visit sensitive places such as health centers, immigration clinics, gun shops, union halls, protests or centers of religious worship.”
1 – License plate readers may be used by law enforcement agencies only to investigate hits and in other circumstances in which law enforcement agents reasonably believe that the plate data are relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.
2 – The government must not store data about innocent people for any lengthy period
3 – People should be able to find out if plate data of vehicles registered to them are contained in a law enforcement agency’s database.
4 – Law enforcement agencies should not share license plate reader data
5 – Any entity that uses license plate readers should be required to report its usage publicly on at least an annual basis.
The free link shortening tool Bitly is collecting data on billions of people each month. According to CEO Mark Josephson: “Any time you click on a Bitly link, whether you see it or not, it’s a 301 redirect through our product and our server, so we drop a first party cookie. We see about four billion folks a month. So we do see most of the world, so four billion browsers, so we do see most of the world on a monthly basis.
After parents of a teen being treated at the Mayo Clinic became dissatisfied with the care she was receiving, they literally had to break her out of the world-famous hospital. Police were called and when they were unable to find the family, they pinged their cell phones.
HEALTHCARE
The Japanese government is investing over $100 million and teaming up with businesses and academia to set up 10 AI-enhanced hospitals. The stated intent is to “allow short-handed doctors to spend more time on patient care while curbing medical spending.”
Drugstore giant CVS Health plans to offer a nationwide service to treat easy-to-diagnose maladies and other medical issues via a smartphone app. The service will help in the diagnosis of colds, flu, and dermatology issues.
GENOMICS
In a paper published in Nature Genetics, Sekar Kathiresan, director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad institute and a professor at Harvard Medical School indicates that 5-8% of people in a study population of 120,280 and 288,978 have a polygenic score indicating at least triple the risk of heart attack. According to Kathiresan: “In a few years, I think everybody will know this number, similar to the way we know our cholesterol right now.”
FUNDING
San Francisco-based Worklete — a digital health platform designed to prevent musculoskeletal injuries among labor intensive workforces — has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. According to the company’s website, the way you move affects whether or not you get injured. The company provides training on human movement, which is intended to help keep teams happy, healthy and injury-free.
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FEATURED EVENTS
CNS Summit – Nov 1-4, 2018 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
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