The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ Sep 11, 2018 ⋅ #342

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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ Sep 4, 2018 ⋅ #341

Announcement to 64,845 Digital Health Group Members

Dear Group,

Last week’s group announcement did not go out due to technical issues resulting from LinkedIn’s group updates. Hopefully this resend works…

My newsletter for Sep 3rd is viewable here.
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Sep 3

Did Mom take her medicine? Is she still in bed? Is her room overheated, or her door unlocked? Retail industry reporter Abha Bhattarai asks these questions in her recent Washington Post piece and points out that Best Buy sees cabinet sensors, under-bed sensors, smart thermostats and security cameras as tools for helping adults “proactively monitor” their parents’ safety at home. According to the company’s CEO, Hubert Joly: “Part of the target market for us is the frail population: People who are still healthy and living at home, whose health can seriously deteriorate if they fall or if there’s a heat wave.” He adds that the data collected by these devices can also be useful for healthcare professionals and insurance providers. But Irina Raicu, director of Internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University cautions that: “Sometimes these products are introduced in the context of helping the elderly, but what they really do is normalize the giving up of privacy for all of us. In the context of aging adults, safety does sometimes become more important than privacy, but it is important that these are informed decisions.” Best Buy’s acquisition of GreatCall includes almost 1 million customers who use its services and devices that connect the elderly with family members, caregivers, and emergency personnel.

The United States and Russia have blocked formal talks on whether to ban ‘killer robots’. Other countries opposing the call for action during meetings in Geneva at the recent United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) included South Korea, Israel, and Australia. Mary Wareham, coordinator at the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, states that: “It’s a disappointment, of course, that a small minority of large military powers can hold back the will of the majority.” The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a global NGO coalition working to ban fully autonomous weapons systems and, as Janosch Delcke reports in Politico, “it represents 75 non-governmental organizations in 32 countries fighting for a ban on weapons that use AI technology to choose their targets. It says 26 countries endorse a full ban on the weapons.”

NET NEUTRALITY

The California Senate has approved the toughest state-level net neutrality bill in the United States. Twenty-six Democratic senators were joined by just one Republican senator voting in favor of the bill, which now goes to the governor to sign it into law. According to Fight for the Future, this represents: “A major victory for Internet activists who harnessed massive public outcry to pass the bill and a resounding defeat for big telecom companies like AT&T and Comcast, who lobbied fiercely against the bill and spent large sums on campaign contributions to California legislators.”

LIVING AND SOCIETY

In response to Andrew Ross Sorkin’s NY Times article “Silicon Valley Doesn’t Like Trump. It Can Still Work With the Government“, David Windt tweeted: “A bond with the government “was clearly not part of the founding of the consumer internet in any relevant way” “the internet was designed by the Pentagon in the 1960s to be … a weapon of surveillance, influence and control” -@yashalevine”

Writing in MIT Tech Review, Tim Hwang highlights four ways that ex-Internet idealists explain where it all went wrong. According to Hwang: “A long time ago, in the bad old days of the 2000s, debates about the internet were dominated by two great tribes: the Optimists and the Pessimists. “The internet is inherently democratizing,” argued the Optimists. “It empowers individuals and self-­organizing communities against a moribund establishment.” “Wrong!” shouted the Pessimists. “The internet facilitates surveillance and control. It serves to empower only governments, giant corporations, and on occasion an unruly, destructive mob.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Auckland University of Technology researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence “spiking neural networks” machine learning system that obtains brain data from EEG headsets and can then predict a person’s choices 0.2 seconds before they have even made up their mind.

PHARMA

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical has announced the first collaboration agreement to bring its Proteus Digital Health-powered Abilify Mycite System to the U.S. market. The system will be integrated into Magellann Health’s mental health provider network. The company states that the Abilify Mycite System is the first drug-device combination product to be approved by FDA to track drug ingestion.

GENOMICS

CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have launched the first ever company-sponsored study of a gene editing drug in humans. The study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous CRISPR-Cas9 Modified CD34+ Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells (hHSPCs) using CTX001. The “treatment targets beta thalassemia, a rare blood disorder that reduces the amount of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in a person’s body, causing fatigue, life-threatening anemia and other serious complications.”

As Gary Taubes writes in MIT Tech Review, a new genetic technique called Mendelian randomization could provide a revolutionary new tool for drug development. According to researchers, the technique makes it possible to mimic large and expensive clinical trials by factoring in innate genetic differences. Taubes states that: “Mendelian randomization is already being used by drug companies to make billion-dollar decisions about which drugs to pursue.”

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