 | | Health | July 15, 2016 |
Startup Highlight: GliaLab
GliaLab is the brainchild of wunderkind 19 year old Abu Qadar. He's focusing on creating an AI that can detect breast cancer on scans between 93%-99% of the time. While AI for breast cancer diagnosis has been around academically for a few years, the fact that you have a 19 year old attacking the problem so successfully is very cool. He already has some partnerships under his built, and has higher hopes within health care, and beyond.
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Quote of the Week
"By working with the game maker to engineer member-specific engagement toward physical activity (fitness club incentives on steroids, pun intended) that relies on fractional payment, similar to online music sales for single tracks vs. albums, Niantic Labs can behave as a de facto wellness company without changing its business model while massively differentiating its revenue potential."
- Taqee Khaled
| Want the latest startup news and resources from Techstars?  Get the scoop on our newest accelerator companies and founders, find out when new program applications open, learn about our events, and much, much more! Sign up here! | | Taqee Khaled - Medium The moment Pokemon Go started taking off in the way it did, people started getting excited about the health ramifications. Cardiogram actually did a study that showed the uptick in exercise that their users saw after the game was released. This article goes into a bit more detail about how insurers might pay Niantic (or similar companies) for this type of intervention, given the previously sedentary members that are walking 5-10 miles a day when they used to not walk at all.
| | Vanessa Mason, MPH // Erica Levine - Tincture This is part two of the five part series on innovation for the medically vulnerable that Vanessa Mason and Erica Levine are putting together. This installment focuses more on the idea generation phase of innovation, and how we can begin to think through models of behavior change that take into account the environments and needs of these populations. Definitely a great read for entrepreneurs thinking about starting companies in the space. | | Sunita Sah - NYT A new wrinkle in the conflict of interest / pharmascold discussion: what if disclosing financial ties actually HURTS our ability to act in an unbiased fashion. That is exactly what the research of Sunita Sah found. This leaves us in quite a pickle, we know that even receiving lunch can sway doctors' opinions, and we know that financial disclosures may have the effect of making doctors more biased as well. What's left? Remove life sciences' influence all together? Not likely given the industry is also funding large amounts of innovation... | | Sean P. Keehan, John A. Poisal, Gigi A. Cuckler, Andrea M. Sisko, Sheila D. Smith, Andrew J. Madison, Devin A. Stone, Christian J. Wolfe and Joseph M. Lizonitz - Health Affairs New data is out forecasting health care expenditure in the US through 2025. There is a lot to unpack here, so I'll let folks take a look themselves. High level, costs are still growing too fast (1.3% faster than GDP growth), but actually not as fast as they have been. The end result will be a health care system that accounts for around 20% of GDP by 2025, up from 17% today. | | Ed Silverman - STAT "Over the next year, the World Health Organization wants to develop a fair pricing model for pharmaceuticals. Toward that end, the agency plans to convene governments, patient groups, and drug makers to fashion the notion into something realistic. The trick is to find the right balance between access to affordable medicines and enticing companies to develop new and improved medicines, while also ensuring lower-cost generics remain available. [STAT] spoke with Suzanne Hill, the WHO Director of Essential Medicines and Health Products, about how the agency hopes to get this done. This is an edited version of our conversation."
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