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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ Jan 29, 2018 ⋅ #311
Dear Group,
As mentioned last week, I’m working with Digital Health World Congress again this year to raise awareness for their 2018 event, which will take place May 8-9 in London, UK. Confirmed keynotes include speakers from Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Orange, Telenor, and Health Navigator. Those interested in attending can register here.
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 26
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jan 26
In an incredible example of digital health, after doctors told a man he was going to lose two-thirds of his tongue due to a cancerous tumor and that his speech would be seriously effected, he turned to Boston-based VocaliD for help. The company specializes in creating custom digitized voices to help people who cannot speak. By using voice bank recordings a few thousand sentences long, the company can recreate someone’s own voice on a computer, which they can then keep and use forever.
Apple made a big announcement this week indicating that they have launched a beta version of their native iOS Health app which will include a Health Records section integrating EHR data from a dozen hospital systems. Consumers will see their integrated medical data in the Health app in compliance with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. It will also be encrypted and protected with their iPhone passcode. Medical data will include information on allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures, and vitals. According to COO Jeff Williams: “Our goal is to help consumers live a better day. We’ve worked closely with the health community to create an experience everyone has wanted for years—to view medical records easily and securely right on your iPhone. By empowering customers to see their overall health, we hope to help consumers better understand their health and help them lead healthier lives.”
LIVING AND SOCIETY
In an article by Christine Schmidt at Nieman Lab, she reports that 92% of people use emoji, and more than 6 billion emoji are sent each day. Moreover, due to its ubiquitous use, Oxford Dictionaries named one emoji (“Face with tears of joy”) the word of the year in 2015. Christine writes that: “As emojis become further embedded in our lives, how can journalists find the stories inside?” And Hamdan Azhar, a CUNY visiting professor of data science states: “Emoji data science allows us to get out of our own bubbles and allows us to get access to a broader swath of human experience.”
In Nick Bilton’s piece in Vanity Fair, This Is Serious: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral, he points out that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be seeing a troublesome trend: More and more people are removing Facebook from their smartphones because they “simply feel icky about what these platforms are doing to them, and to society.” (Reference the “Apps & Social Media” chapter in my book.) While the evidence is anecdotal, I came across Bilton’s article via a tweet by Forbes contributor Jennifer Kite-Powell, who tweeted: “I left #Facebook in 2015. I got my life back. Don’t tell yourself lies that you need it, you don’t. #FacebookFree”
REGULATION
The FDA will release more clinical trial data for newly approved drugs to doctors, patients, and researchers as part of a new pilot program. The agency will also add study identifier numbers from ClinicalTrials.gov to the FDA materials for products and is also considering releasing information explaining why some drugs were not approved, mainly focusing on parts related to patient safety.
The FDA has granted Expedited Access Pathway (EAP) to AngioDynamics for its NanoKnife System to be used in Stage III pancreatic cancer. According to Douglas House in Seeking Alpha: “The NanoKnife uses low-energy direct current electrical pulses to permanently open pores in target cell membranes which kills the cells. It is currently approved in the U.S. for the surgical ablation of soft tissue.”
WEARABLE TECH
Fitbit has announced that, as of June 30, Pebble smartwatch owners will no longer be able to use the Pebble App Store, forums, SMS, email, or voice recognition services. The step counting feature will continue to function as will other apps. The company is offering Pebble owners a $50 discount to purchase the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch.
FUNDING
According to StartUp Health’s Year End Insights Report for 2017, digital health startups raised over $11.5B in 2017, surpassing the 2016 record total of over $8B by almost $3.5B. The two charts below illustrate an interesting contrast between global digital health investing and biotech plus healthcare investing in the United States. Overlaps exist, e.g. GRAIL, which also shows a discrepancy in the Series B funding round: Startup Health indicates GRAIL received a $900M Series B, and Crunchbase states it was $1.2B.
Zipongo has raised $18M to bring its FoodScripts food prescription app for chronic conditions to providers and health plans. The FoodScripts app is intended to help people with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other conditions by providing nutrition programs based on their specific dietary needs. According to CEO Jason Langheier: “We are developing modules for other conditions, such as cancers and inflammatory bowel disease.” The company’s website describes its solution as “a digital nutrition platform that takes the guesswork out of healthy eating with personalized meal recommendations based on biometrics and food preferences. We work with employers, health plans and wellness companies to reduce chronic disease and improve the health of their employees and members. Our solution delivers real-time support for all the places a person makes food decisions – at home, at work, at the grocery store, and at restaurants. Pointing users to the healthiest recipe and menu choices reduces the likelihood of making poor food choices based on convenience, cost and other factors.”
Tel Aviv-based Nexar has raised a $30M Series B for its AI-based road safety dashcams and network. The startup’s dashcam app uses computer vision and sensors to detect accidents as wells as analyze road conditions. It sends real-time alerts to its users and other vehicles on its network. Insurance companies also use its tools to reconstruct collisions for use in claim investigations.
Shanghai-based startup The CareVoice has received $2M to bring its cost and quality transparency app to China. The company’s tool is available to the public as well as insurers. According to CEO Sebastian Gaudin: “We help them figure out where they can go, what type of medical care they can access, but also filter this according to their insurance plan, so they can understand where they have direct billing (and) where there is copay.”
GENOMICS
In an article by Business Insider Science Correspondent Erin Brodwin ” Your burger habit could be under threat“, I noticed that she identified the opportunity for CRISPR gene editing to be used to “modify cattle in a way that might protect them from animal cruelty and climate change.” In my quote response, I tweeted: “Article quote below echoes a point I make in my book, citing @BioMickWatson’s work on ruminants and @nanopore sequencing. “Genetic engineering technique CRISPR may help solve these problems by making both plants and animals that are more immune to environmental challenges.”
China has reportedly already used CRISPR gene editing on 86 people, significantly outpacing similar efforts in the United States and Europe. China may already have 11 clinical trials using CRISPR underway compared to just 1 set to commence in the U.S. In a 2015 trial in China, 36 patients “with cancers of the kidney, lung, liver and throat had cells removed from their bodies, altered with CRISPR, and then infused back into their bodies to fight the cancer.”
INNOVATION
Scientists at MIT have developed a hair-thin implant that can drip drugs deep into the brain with remote control and bypass the blood-brain barrier. According to Professor Robert Langer, whose biomedical engineering team reported the research: “You could deliver things right to where you want, no matter the disease.” Applications include brain disorders like depression and Parkinson’s.
Computer scientists at the University of Washington are collecting 10,000 images and preserving their pixels in the ATCs and Gs of DNA in an effort to create an image search engine out of DNA. The related goal is to find a way to better retrieve and process data stored in DNA, which well help create a molecular computing platform, research on which DARPA is funding.
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