HealthTech Hub Vol #8— The Best Reads in Medicine and Health Tech
- How Apps Can Help Manage Chronic Disease — With the myriad of digital innovations that have surfaced, there has been a stronger push to objectively measure the success of treatment plans that include the use of digital apps. Studies on healthcare apps are showing success helping patients take control of their health.
2. Toyota Builds Robot to Help Paraplegics — Toyota Research Institute begins trials with its Human Support Robot (HSR). The HSR is currently able to do simple tasks such as delivering food, fetching water bottles, and opening doors with a focus on improving the day-to-day lives of the disabled and aging.
3. Motion Magnification — Subtle changes in our physiology can be hard to capture by the naked eye. Using Eulerian Motion Magnification, changes in pulse, blood flow, and other “hidden” unusual properties can be examined more closely.
4. Verily works on Aurora to understand PTSD episodes — Google’s Verily teams up with MindStrong to better understand the “digital phenotype” of PTSD by tracking behavioral data from your phone and biomarker data.
5. First known attempt to edit human embryos in the U.S. — Gene editing of human embryos is now here in the U.S., but not without controversy. The germline engineering technique, CRISPR, opens up the possibility of modifying defective genes.
Book Recco! Eat to Live — If you are thinking about re-thinking your nutrition, I’ve found this to be a easy-to-digest (pun-intended) resource. Dr. Fuhrman drops knowledge on nutrition density and long-term dieting solutions.
