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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ Jan 22, 2018 ⋅ #310
Dear Group,
I’ll be speaking at the XPOMET Convention 2018 in Leipzig, Germany, March 21-23. More than just a conference, the Convention features twelve segments with over 80 national and international speakers and 1,500 attendees. XPOMET is aimed at all stakeholders in the healthcare sector, especially physicians, decision-makers in medical institutions, the protagonists of medical engineering, modern pharmacy, biotech, care professionals, and also students. There will also be an Innovation Congress on 5 stages, constructive think tanks, a Future Health Exhibition (with 15 showcases, including the Patient’s Room and Doctor’s Office of the Future), a Startup Section, and a Festival of Medicine, with art and musical elements, food trucks, and numerous get-together events. Registration.
Also, I’m working with Digital Health World Congress for the third straight year. Their 2018 Congress will take place May 8-9 in London, UK. Registration.
I’ve published one issue of my newsletter since last week’s group announcement, which you can read below and via the following link: The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jan 20
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jan 20
I’ll be speaking at the XPOMET Convention 2018 in Leipzig, Germany, March 21-23. More than just a conference, the Convention features twelve segments, with over 80 national and international speakers, and 1,500 attendees. XPOMET is aimed at all stakeholders in the healthcare sector, especially physicians, decision-makers in medical institutions, the protagonists of medical engineering, modern pharmacy, biotech, care professionals, and also students. There will also be an Innovation Congress on 5 stages, constructive think tanks, a Future Health Exhibition (with 15 showcases, including the Patient’s Room and Doctor’s Office of the Future), a Startup Section, and a Festival of Medicine, with art and musical elements, food trucks, and numerous get-together events. Register here.
It’s always interesting to see the results of the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual survey of 4,000 fitness pros. Last year, survey respondents voted Wearable Tech the top fitness industry trend for 2017. This year, however, Wearable Tech dropped to third place and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is considered by the pros to be the top fitness trend for 2018.
While efficacy of the Natural Cycles digital health contraceptive is reportedly slightly better than the contraceptive pill, the app was recently reported to Swedish medical regulators after 37 unwanted pregnancies were identified. While the total user base is unreported (one can assume it’s in the thousands), the company states that the numbers mentioned in the report “are not surprising given the popularity of the app and in line with our efficacy rates (of) 93%. As our user base increases, so will the amount of unintended pregnancies coming from app users, which is an inevitable reality.” Last year, following the results of a clinical trial of 4,000 women, the European Union certified the app (which uses self-reported data from a basal body thermometer) as a method of birth control. It was previously reported that: “Used perfectly, the pill has an effectiveness rate of 99.7%. However, factoring in actual use, the effectiveness rate drops to 92%. That’s compared to 93% for the Natural Cycles app. The effectiveness rate of long-acting birth control, like an intrauterine device (IUD), is nearly 100%, and there’s no need to avoid intercourse for days or even weeks of the month.”
LIVING AND SOCIETY
Journalist Ian Frisch tweeted a humorous chart from Pornhub that shows the website’s user traffic before, during, and after the recent false alert of a missile heading for Hawaii. As Ian writes: After notification of the error, “Hawaiians collectively breathed a sigh of relief. Those seeking further relief headed back to Pornhub where pageviews surged +48% above typical levels at 9:01am.”
Irish startup SoapBox Labs is on a mission to create what it calls “the world’s most accurate and accessible speech technology for children”. The company’s tech is based on the premise that speech recognition systems designed for adults don’t work as well for children because they have higher pitched voices and different speech patterns. Also, unlike adults, children don’t typically adapt their speech to suit machines.
In this humorous video, comedian JP Sears takes a look at Phone Etiquette in 2018: “Proper phone etiquette is an ever changing phenomenon that can have you left behind and suffering from social embarrassment if you’re not on the cutting edge of the changes. Because I don’t want you to suffer the embarrassment of exercising phone manners from yesteryear, here are the proper phone etiquette guidelines for 2018.”
HEALTH AND SAFETY
In this video, a drone is shown as it drops a flotation device to two teens caught in rough surf off the coast of Australia. At the time of the incident, lifeguards were testing the new drone technology. According to lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan: “I was able to launch it, fly it to the location, and drop the pod all in about one to two minutes.” The rescue took just over one minute, versus the average six minutes it typically takes a lifeguard to reach swimmers in distress.
An AI system in Denmark can help identify if someone calling into 911 is having a heart attack. While dispatchers can typically recognize cardiac arrest around 73% of the time, the machine learning system has shown 95% accuracy. Dispatchers get alerts in real time, which may help in deciding to coach someone on the phone to do CPR. In the future, drones carrying automatic defibrillators might also be dispatched. The system also tries to eliminate errors, like whether the address is correct. The company behind the system plans to expand to the United States.
The state of Iowa is using 250 flood sensors deployed across the state and artificial intelligence to provide local leaders with real-time flood forecasts. The hope is to also expand to other platforms that can reach the community and community mangers directly, including Facebook Messenger, Siri, Google Assistant, Google Home, and Amazon Echo.
A new smoke-detecting device called LifeDoor will automatically close the doors in your house to protect against fires. Closed doors are the best barriers to the spread of smoke, heat, and flames and can reduce deaths and injuries from smoke inhalation, toxic, and super-heated gases. But since it’s not always safe or practical to close doors manually during a fire, the LifeDoor device can do this for you when it detects the standardized 85 decibel tone of a triggered smoke alarm. It will also turn on a light and send its own alarm.
Microsoft is working on VR for disaster simulations that is scaled to the size of buildings, and could therefore enable evacuation training.
A child in California used a deactivated cellphone (that only allowed her to dial 911) to call police after escaping a home-school horror, torture house containing 13 siblings.
HEALTHCARE
According to Bob Sullivan, author of “Gotcha Capitalism”, in some Eastern U.S. cities, even if you have health insurance, in some cases you still can’t find a doctor. As Bob states: “You buy insurance, you visit your carrier’s website to pick an in-network doctor, you call the doctor to make an appointment, and you’re told “We’re not accepting new patients.” Rinse, repeat. In other words, you pay $500-$2,000 to buy insurance, the carrier’s site says you can visit X doctor, but the doctor says you can’t. Repeatedly. So often that you begin to think, “There are literally no primary care doctors available to me.””
New AI tools could one day detect the flu before you even feel sick. That’s the indication of new research that looks at subtle facial signs of illness, which could be used to train AI systems to scan for infections within “mere hours after they take hold.” The study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, was based on 16 healthy people, who were injected with a placebo or E. coli bacteria that causes flu-like symptoms. The volunteers were subsequently photographed two hours later and it turned out that participants were able to detect a healthy person 70% of the time.
A new toolkit from the Stanford-based California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative is intended to help doctors spot heart disease linked to pregnancy. It will also provide a detailed algorithm to help doctors decide on whether to refer a patient for follow-up with a cardiologist. According to the toolkit’s authors: “Most pregnancies occur in young, healthy women and there is an overlap between signs and symptoms women may experience in a normal pregnancy and those they may experience due to cardiac disease, specifically shortness of breath, fatigue and swelling.”
An article by Michelle Andrews in Kaiser Health News examines the value provided by new 3D mammograms. Imaging centers across the U.S. are installing the new machines (which create 3D images known as digital breast tomosynthesis) and offering them as an option to traditional 2D mammograms. While studies show that these 3D tests are slightly better at detecting cancers and women usually require fewer images, Michelle reports that it’s not yet clear whether the “newer, more expensive technology is better at catching cancers that are likely to kill.”
The FDA has approved Excel Medical’s new, first-of-its-kind crisis-predicting algorithm intended to save hospital patients from early death. Hospital staff would use the algorithm to predict and prevent sudden patient death that has been indicated by monitoring patient vitals. Alerts are sent to smart devices up to 6 hours before a potentially fatal heart attack or respiratory failure.
Medical solutions company Mölnlycke has entered into a partnership with Tissue Analytics to develop and commercialize digital solutions for wound care practitioners including comprehensive clinical decision support tools intended to simplify and standardize wound assessment and treatment. According to Kevin Keenahan, CEO of Tissue Analytics: “with our expertise in digital medicine and their extensive knowledge of wound healing, we can bring powerful, new data analytics capabilities to the market.”
WEARABLE TECH
As a result of the dramatic and unexpected ending to the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints NFL football game, Apple Watches sent Vikings fans heart rate warnings. The potential irony here is that while the users may not have actually been having heart attacks, perhaps some will become more aware of their cardiovascular health and take proactive steps to prevent an actual heart attack or onset of cardiovascular disease. Awareness is key and digital health can help in that regard.
Cloud DX, which was a finalist in the XPRIZE’s Qualcomm Medical Tricorder competition, recently had their Vitaliti health wearable featured in a TechCrunch video. The Vitaliti system is designed to work on patients who have been recently released from the hospital and enables their attending physician and care team members to continuously monitor them remotely.
FUNDING
Peerfit has closed an $8 Million Series B investment round. The company provides a digital platform enabling insurance carriers, brokers, and employers to offer fitness classes and wellness services to their clients and employees.
GENOMICS
A tweet by the Weigel Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology announced: “Breaking news: EU Advocate General opinion — genome edited organisms exempt from #GMO regulations (like X-ray or chemical mutants), as long as no intermediate transgenic step”. The PDF document of the press release from the Court of Justice of the European Union is available in the tweet.
For the first time ever, scientists were able to watch DNA being read using a new, Nobel Prize-winning electron microscope called Cryo-EM. This innovation could reportedly lead to new ways to tackle cancer as “the process of reading DNA and decoding it to build proteins is a crucial biological process that all animals and plants go through, it’s also something that is often hijacked by cancer.”
In what could reportedly be a first clinical trial of its type in the United States, University of Pennsylvania doctors plan to treat cancer patients using CRISPR gene editing. The approach will entail modification of human immune cells so that they turn into cancer killers.
The first treatment approved for breast cancer with BRCA genetic mutation was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. Patients with advanced breast cancer caused by BRCA mutations can now be treated with Lynparza, which is already approved for use in ovarian cancer associated with the same BRCA mutations.
In what Antonio Regalado describes as potentially being “the first large-scale implementation of a “liquid biopsy” screening test that looks for *many* cancers at once”, a test by Johns Hopkins University will look for signs of eight common types of cancer. The inexpensive test could be performed during a routine physical. The plan is to screen 50,000 healthy people for signs of hidden tumors, which can be revealed via a combination of cancer proteins and cancer-related genetic mutations.
FEATURED EVENTS
XPOMET Convention 2018
March 21-23 in Leipzig, Germany
The Convention for Innovation and High-Tech in Medicine
Digital Health World Congress 2018
May 8-9 in London, UK
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