The Latest in Digital Health Innovation
The Health Data Exploration Project’s regular scan through the news.
Help for the Brokenhearted: Wearable, Biosynthetic and ‘Beatless’ Artificial Hearts
Cow-machine hybrids and continuous-flow technologies are helping people survive devastating heart failure. Read more…
Precision Medicine a Threat to Population Health
The problem with precision medicine is “the paradox of prevention… some very significant achievements at the individual level can be achieved without having much of an impact at a population level,” says a public health researcher. Read more…
Using Data Science To Increase Traffic Safety For All
Data can be immensely powerful in understanding and addressing complex social issues, but only when you have the right people at the table working together to use it. Applying data science for good requires not only bringing together relevant data sets, but also relevant decision makers, technical and issue area experts, funders and advocates that can inform and help co-design solutions that will have an impact. Read more…
EEG-tracking headphones, smart mood ring, and 8 other digital health crowdfunding projects
This latest batch of crowdfunding projects are all about tracking, from an emotion-sensing ring to a smart standing desk to EEG-sensing headphones. Read on for 10 interesting wearables, sensors and apps making their case on Indiegogo and Kickstarter right now. Read more…
Why what works for Uber may not work for medical apps
Healthcare in America needs disrupting. The media has widely reported on the high cost of, and poor outcomes produced by, the US health care system. Fortunately, attracted by possible profit in a market that currently constitutes over 17 percent of GDP, quite a few startups are anxious to do the needed disrupting. Indeed, innovators from many places outside of healthcare are bringing a fresh perspective to the problems the healthcare system faces, developing very creative “mobile medical apps” that fall within FDA’s jurisdiction. Read more…
Wireless Health Sensor Undergoes Clinical Trial At Scripps
A wireless health sensor that measures four vital signs by touching the device to the temple is undergoing its first clinical trial, which is being directed by the Scripps Translational Science Institute, it was announced Wednesday. Read more…
Google Is Working On Magnetic Nanoparticles To Detect Cancer Cells
Google’s ambition to cure death is beginning to take shape in a new product from its Google X division. Andrew Conrad, the head of the company’s life sciences division announced the details of an effort that would use nanotechnology to identify signs of disease. The project would employ tiny magnetic nanoparticles, said to be one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell, to bind themselves to various molecules and identify them as trouble spots. Read more…
Apple watchOS 2: Native Apps, More Freedom For Developers And New Modes
Developers will be able to work with new features like video playback, as well as access to the heart rate sensor, microphone, Digital Crown and Taptic Engine, opening the door for more complex apps than what we saw on the Watch at launch. Read more…
Like a GoPro for you guts, this X-ray pill captures images inside your colon
When you reach a certain age, screening for colon cancer is a dreaded, but necessary affair. Not only is the procedure uncomfortable to even think about, the preparation is equally as bad, requiring the patient to endure a “cleansing” before the procedure can begin. To take some of the sting out of colon cancer screening, medical startup CheckCap has an innovative idea. Rather than sending a snake-like scope up a patients’ bowels, Check-Cap uses an X-ray pill that is swallowed and travels gently through the colon, providing images as it moves along. Read more…
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