Health - Startup Digest - December 2nd - December 9th

Health December 02, 2016 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. Health Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Infectious Diseases Keep Delivering Surprises To The U.S. Katherine Hobson - NPR While overall we've made great strides against infectious diseases, overall statistics mask some major trends that have caused spikes that may be hidden by aggregate data. Check out this deep dive into different rates of infectious disease death in the US, and where work still remains. From Acute to Chronic: Why We Need to Develop Product Strategies for Tomorrow's Patients Malik Kaman - ZS Associates This ZS post explores how longer survival rates for cancer patients will shift the care regime, and how that shift should be addressed by providers and technologists. Some interesting questions around how to balance further research on increasing survival rates with increasing quality of life for patients living longer with co-morbidities.  Why the U.S. Needs Medicaid Rachel Nuzum, Sara R. Collins, Melinda K. Abrams, Pamela Riley, M.D., Jordan Kiszla and Jamie Ryan - Commonwealth With pending changes and discussions around Medicare and Medicaid, I think it's good to remind ourselves why the programs exist and the massive benefits of these programs. Good thing Commonwealth Fund put together an extensive survey on just that subject. Read this before the holidays so that you have some good stats to argue with relatives about the future of health care in America. The future is here: Virtual reality provides vivid look inside a fetus — but is it useful? Rebecca Robbins - STAT You can file this under "just because we can build it, doesn't mean we should". VR has so many ground breaking applications in medicine from education to patient sedation. I wouldn't put a VR tour of a baby in the same category as the others... Genetically Modified Pigs Could Ease Organ Shortage Amy Dockser Marcus - WSJ Crispr Pigs are the future of organ transplantation. Read more in this WSJ article on this new use of the gene editing technology. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser 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 | Terms of Use.

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