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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ May 23, 2018 ⋅ #327
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NHS University College London Hospitals (UCLH) is partnering with the Alan Turing Institute in a effort to “replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks”, including “diagnosing cancer on CT scans” and deciding which acute and emergency patients are seen first. The effort will reportedly also entail using machine learning algorithms to identify people at risk of illness. UCLH’s Chief Executive Marcel Levi states that: “Our performance this year has fallen short of the four-hour wait, which is no reflection on the dedication and commitment of our staff. [It’s] an indicator of some of the other things in the entire chain concerning the flow of acute patients in and out the hospital that are wrong. Machines will never replace doctors, but the use of data, expertise and technology can radically change how we manage our services – for the better.”
In related news, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to pledge that AI will be used by the NHS with the aim of preventing over 20,000 cancer-related deaths each year by 2033 and that it will also be used to ensure that “five more years of people’s lives will be healthy, independent, and active” while also narrowing the health gap between rich and poor. In response to May’s planned announcement, Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor, author, and speaker tweeted: “Dear @theresa_may, before this week’s evidence-free soundbite gimmickry, any chance you could rustle up the 40k missing nurses, 10k missing doctors & 15k beds you’ve culled since 2010? I just sense an algorithm might not be *quite* what the patients dying in corridors need.”
Speaking of AI, there’s speculation that Google’s recent headline-grabbing demo of it’s virtual-assistant tool calling and interacting with an employee at a hair salon (with the objective of making an appointment) may have been staged in the same way as reality TV shows.
WEARABLE TECH
Business partners Janet Lieberman and Alexandra Fine set out to create a vibrator made for couples, particularly one that meets the needs of women. The result is a wearable vibrator called Eva, which was just featured in the NY Times. According to Fine: “Our mission is to close the pleasure gap. We want to fight any inequality between the sexes, but especially when it comes to sexual practices. We want women to claim their sexual pleasure and own it.”
Alphabet subsidiary Verily has submitted a patent for a “smart diaper” that would distinguish pee from poo and alert a caregiver as to what’s going on. The design is reportedly differentiated from similar type devices by being a convenient, affordable, and all-in-one design. Verily states that “there is much room for significant advancement in the technology in order to lower the cost and enhance the convenience and functionality, thus making them a more affordable and reliable option.
LIVING AND SOCIETY
There are reportedly more than 200 apps and digital services that can be used to illegaly stalk spouses or partners in a range of ways, including via basic location tracking, text message harvesting, and recording video in secret. Spying services typically require access to a person’s phone or knowledge of their passwords. Stalking is often done in cases that lead to attempted homicide and domestic violence.
A new study finds that, contrary to our perceptions, Tinder and other picture-based dating apps don’t actually increase the rate at which people succeed in having casual romantic connections. It’s not that the apps aren’t useful in that regard, it’s just that people who are already interested in casual sex are equally successful at finding it via traditional, non-digital methods.
A new iPhone X case by telecom company Softbank attaches to a 22 pound (10kg) dumbbell and is intended to discourage smartphone addiction, or at least make it so that your biceps get bigger as a positive side effect.
Qantas arilines is offering inflight meditation videos that are also available for viewing in VR. The new features are part of an announced expansion of the company’s entertainment offerings. Qantas says that the videos – which include aerial footage of Australian deserts, bushlands, coasts, forests, and locations at twilight – have been “specially designed to bring a sense of calm and help customers unwind in the air.”
Tobacco company Philip Morris is seeking regulatory approval for an electronic smoking device that knows a lot about your smoking habit. While the iQOS, as it’s called, contains microcontroller chips and circuitry enabling it to collect user information, the company states that it only uses the data to fix device malfunctions and that software used to control temperature and duration of use “is not used for marketing purposes whatsoever.”
PHARMA
Antonio Regalado noticed that Twitter bots were promoting genetic testing by Roche and tweeted the following: “Several bots joined Twitter this month to promote the @Roche prenatal NIPT test called #harmony. Finds Down Syndrome. First time I see bots promoting medical genetic testing.” followed by this update: “I asked Roche about their prenatal testing Twitter bots and just received a reply: “thanks for reaching out. These accounts have been removed.” yeah, that didn’t answer my question: why do #NIPTbots even exist?”
FUNDING AND M&A
San Diego-based Illumina has acquired Edico Genome for $100M. The San Diego startup’s specialized software, microprocessor, and chipset reduces the time it takes for genome mapping of next-generation sequencing data from 20 hours to 20 minutes.
Qventus has raised $30M to grow its customer base using its machine learning tools designed to help hospitals reduce bottlenecks. The company’s system is described as being similar to air traffic control. Pain points addressed inlcude emergency room wait times and lab testing plus imaging time.
GENOMICS
A double murder committed in 1987 has been solved using public genealogy database GEDmatch, the same website that was used to identify the suspected Golden State Killer. Parabon NanoLabs loaded DNA data from the crime scene into GEDmatch and found matches at about the second cousin level.
U.S. researchers have reported that testing advanced lung cancer patients for all of the possible genetic mutations that could be driving their cancer at a single time is more cost effective than testing for just one or a limited number of genes.
An op-ed in JAMA entitled “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Implications of the US FDA’s First Marketing Authorization for BRCA Mutation Testing” examines the outcome of the FDA allowing 23andMe to market its genetic tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations to “identify women at increased lifetime risk of breast cancer.” The authors state that: “It is difficult to balance individual autonomy, industry innovation, and clinical utility when it comes to tests designed to identify genetic conditions that put individuals at increased lifetime risk of potentially preventable diseases over longer time horizons. There should be a reasonable and achievable middle ground. Even though there are reasons to be optimistic about the prospects of this new era in genetic testing, there also are reasons to be concerned that the recent FDA action—through false reassurance or targeting an inappropriate population—may not improve and possibly could worsen health outcomes for the patients 23andMe seeks to empower.”
Writing in Tonic, Daniel McDonald, scientific director of the American Gut Project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), reports on the results of the first project, which analyzed ‘poop’ samples submitted by more than 10,000 people. By looking at the DNA and molecules that microbes make while living in the human gut, the Project seeks to better understand what is going on with the human microbiome. According to McDonald: “One of the most exciting discoveries was that the greater the variety of plants in someone’s diet, the greater diversity of microbes in their guts. Even more exciting was that not only were the microbes dramatically different between those who ate few versus many plants, but the repertoire of molecules these communities produce varied wildly. The gut bacteria of those who eat more types of plants could break down foods using alternate routes of metabolism and produce different types of molecules. This is a big deal because we didn’t think that consuming a variety of plants had a significant impact on the gut. But the data show otherwise.”
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