Health Reading List | January 01, 2016 |
Startup Highlight: ArmaGen
The blood-brain barrier has been an issue for drug delivery to the brain for many years. ArmaGen is using the body's natural pathway to carry insulin to bypass the blood-brain barrier, by fusing a therapeutic to the insulin receptor that can carry the therapeutic through. They will be focusing on pediatric brain conditions at the start, but there will be some huge impact if they are ultimately successful beyond pediatrics.
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@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. | Opportunity Is Knocking  Braintree recently teamed up with Vision Mobile, the world's largest developer survey, to look into untapped opportunities for mobile developers and the Internet of Things. They found that the upside of e-commerce is even bigger than you might think. Read more about the findings here. | | If you read one article from this week, make this one it. The move from "wearables" to more inconspicuous form of data tracking is inevitable, and it's rather unfortunate we had the intermediary "craze" (many studies tracking the half-life of wearables use). The real power will come from, as this Wired piece points out, sensors blending into the everyday, and eventually into our bodies themselves. | | Yet another "look ahead" piece, this one from UCSF. Topics include: precision medicine, HIV treatments, targeted drug delivery, and more. All from the foremost experts in their fields. Enjoy! | | A great Deloitte piece on social media and pharma. I'm a bit biased, but I am fascinated by pharma's inability to figure out how to better leverage social tools and peer collaboration to help their selling efforts. The study cites Medscape, Epocrates, and Sermo as the main tools used by pharma, which proves that the industry has not cracked the code. | | "Futurist and founder of the consultancy Enspektos talks how digital health is moving into what he calls the "Age of Implementation" and about a new study designed to map digital innovation progress globally." | | "Dan, Rivka, and Rob recap the year in health care and run through four of the biggest trends: Payer and provider consolidation (starts at the 3:45 mark), payment transformation (15:20), the growing role of tech firms (22:55), and consumerism (36:00). Then stick around for the last Electives of the year, including articles from two of our favorite authors and a different way to watch one classic holiday movie." | | The lack of clinical end points for health apps is a real issue that digital health companies need to face. MDDI explores whether digital health can get it's act together on this point. Likely, as doctors quoted in the article point out, at least part of the solution is a closer relationship between digital health companies and the physicians they sell to. | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy. | | |
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