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MOBILE HEALTH APPS. "Mobile health apps were recently described as “the single-biggest digital channel since the 90s and the web” by business and research consultancy Frost and Sullivan. The claim was backed up by astounding figures for the growth of the mobile health market – last year the revenues made by the development of mobile apps reached £13.2 billion in the US."" " http://www.ehi.co View in LinkedIn

BUGS FIGHTING BUGS. "The discovery and development of antibiotics has had a profound effect on human health. Many previously deadly diseases are now easily cured. But, inevitably, their impact is starting to wane as bacteria fight back and acquire resistance. Drug development has slowed and new approaches to treating antibiotic resistant infections are needed. Enter the engineered bacteriophage, variations on viruses that infect only specific bacteria."" " http://sybhel.org/?p=730 View in LinkedIn

MED-APP & THE FDA. "500 M smartphone users will be using a health care application by 2015, and by 2018, 50 percent of 3.4 billion smartphone users will have downloaded (them). The FDA's Mobile Medical Applications Guidance for Industry and Food (September 25, 2013)...the oversight of mobile medical apps as devices and the focus on the apps that present a greater risk."" " http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/productsandmedicalprocedures/connectedhealth/mobilemedicalapplications/default.htm View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY REVIEW. " " http://lnkd.in/bmvp2UX View in LinkedIn

CHEAT-SHEET APPS FOR DOCS, such as mobile PDR, summary of infections by zip Code and which are drug resistant (ePocrates), and consensus disease diagnosis and treatment algorithms. These empower everybody on the value chain including the patient. They are emerging at a fast pace. View in LinkedIn

MEDICAL EMPOWERMENT. "Rather than ask complex, high-cost institutions and expensive, specialized professionals to move down-market, we need to look at the problem in a very different way. Managers and technologies need to focus instead on enabling less expensive professionals to do progressively more sophisticated things in less expensive settings."" " http://lnkd.in/bM85CFG View in LinkedIn

STRATEGY AWRY? "Our major health care institutions—medical schools, groups of specialist physicians, general hospitals, research organizations—have together overshot the level of care actually needed or used by the vast majority of patients. Indeed, most players in today’s health care system are in a lockstep march toward the most scientifically demanding challenges."" " http://lnkd.in/bM85CFG View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTION CALL. "Ten years ago, HBS professor Clay Christensen first examined the dearth of innovation in the health care sector that’s largely still unmet today. The U.S. health care industry is in crisis. A whole host of disruptive innovations could end the crisis...we’ll be able to build a new system that’s characterized by lower costs, higher quality, and greater convenience than could ever be achieved under the old system."" " http://lnkd.in/bM85CFG View in LinkedIn

REMOTE DIGITAL SENSORS IN HEALTHCARE, including: vital signs (blood pressure, oxygenation, temperature, respiration, pulse etc), drug compliance monitoring, digestible physiological sensors, ingestable gastrointestinal scanners, hydration scanners. Early detection, continuous monitoring and rehabilitation. Remote videoconference diagnoses and consultations. Dial your doc!" " http://lnkd.in/bXk3g8E View in LinkedIn

DOC IN A BOX? "Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms believes that patients would be better off getting diagnosed by a machine than by doctors. Creating such a system was a simple problem to solve. A good machine learning system not only would be cheaper, more accurate and objective, but also effectively replace 80 percent of doctors simply by being better than the average doctor."" " http://lnkd.in/bfJ7nsp View in LinkedIn