Health Reading List | May 01, 2015 |
Happy Friday all,
Kind of a hodge podge of articles this week, with a little bit of a focus on robotics in medicine.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Scott
Startup Highlight: Geneyouin
Geneyouin was submitted as a Startup Highlight by Rabia Khan. As precision medicine gets more and more press, genetics companies like gene you in will make sure we are all taking the right medications, at the right time, and help us control one of the largest determinants to our health, our genetics. Geneyouin provides quality tests, in a cost effective form.
As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigesemail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. | Hiring? Access 250+ new candidates every Monday.  Great companies are built with great teams. With Hired, access over 250 pre-screened developers, designers, and tech sales professionals every week all ready to explore new opportunities. Use Hired to find the best talent in tech so you can focus on what you do best. Sign up and make the key hires you need. | | Matt McFarland - Washington Post Matt reviews Martin Ford's "Rise of the Robots" with a focus on the cost efficiencies associated with our soon-to-be robotic overlords. With companies such as Mazor Robotics and Intuitive Surgical taking an increasingly large portion of the market, the future of surgical robotics is looking bright. | | Tamara Bonaci, Jeffrey Herron, Tariq Yusuf, Junjie Yan, Tadayoshi Kohno, Howard Jay Chizeck - Cornell University Library With the rise of robotic surgeries, some researchers at Cornell wanted to test how easily they could hack one, and they did. Security is always top of mind for health care, but especially as we push the limits on robotic surgery, an extra focus on cyber security will be crucial. | | Meghana Keshavan - MedCity News While wearables are all the rage, implantables are already on the horizon. This piece highlights so-called "electroceuticals" and explains how DARPA is working on ways to turn us all into super-humans. | | Greg Slabodkin - HealthCare Data Management The amount of money spent on R&D and clinical trials for failed drugs is absolutely STAGGERING. So the NIH and DARPA are developing a chip that will be able to measure toxicity, by mimicking human physiology more accurately than traditional animal tests. | | Dan Munro - Medium With all the hype over mHealth and sensing technologies, Dan Munro takes a step back and asks: how clinically relevant is all this sensing technology? With a relatively small portion of health determinants coming from habit (relative to genetics and social circumstances). | | Larry Dobrow - Medical Marketing & Media Pharma sales increased 13% YoY to a staggering $360B, with oncology and antidiabetes leading the therapeutic categories. This is a really juicy report with tons of great stats and deep dives on each of the top 20 pharma firms by sales. Enjoy! | Tech Entrepreneurs + Small Businesses = Real Solutions. Subscribe to the Intuit + Startup Weekend Small Business Space Newsletter to connect with small business owners and build real solutions to real problems. Each week a real small business with a real problem is featured. If you decide to build a solution for a featured small business problem, we'll put you in touch with the small business owner, and potentially feature you on apps.com and more. Learn more or subscribe. | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. © 2009-2015 Startup Digest. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Startup Weekend. All rights reserved. | | |
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