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Lab Report







 
June 21, 2018
No. 44

THIS WEEK 
Emerging technology in health and pharma.

Plus: VR goes to medical school and autonomous vehicle companies start thinking about humans.

Featured story

HEALTH & TECH

Using voice technology to power more engaging digital health experiences

Nearly half of Americans use digital voice assistants, and U.S. smart speaker sales doubled last year. Voice technology is changing the way we experience entertainment, shopping, and in some cases, healthcare.

Even before we designed and produced the 2017 Alexa Diabetes Challenge, on behalf of Merck and in partnership with Amazon, we were considering the transformative power of conversational interfaces in health and beyond. Orbita founder and CEO Bill Rogers, a leading expert in voice-first solutions for healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, supported the challenge by providing insights and resources to participants.

Orbita and Luminary Labs share an interest in helping companies focus on what can be done, not what can’t be done — pushing the envelope while mitigating risk. That’s why we’re sharing insights from our work in emerging technology and digital health in a webinar next week. In advance of the virtual event, we spoke with Bill about how voice-first technology can drive innovation in health.

Read the interview and sign up to attend the webinar.

Insights & updates


Luminary Labs CEO Sara Holoubek will be at Health Experience Design on Tuesday, delivering a keynote on balancing health tech ethics with speed and innovation


Tech Inclusion New York convenes on Wednesday. The third annual conference features “diverse, underrepresented voices building the innovative technologies and cultures of our future.”  

Autonomous vehicle companies are creating a new organization to explore the human impact of self-driving cars.


Eight U.S. residency programs — including Columbia, UCLA, Harvard, and Vanderbilt — plan to bring Osso VR into their medical schools. Osso VR is a virtual reality teaching program that won the EdSim Challenge, designed and produced by Luminary Labs on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education. 

Cool job alert

New Lab is looking for an education program manager in Brooklyn. Future Laboratories is hiring a “future of work” research associate in New York. Enigma is also recruiting for a number of open positions — from data scientists and software engineers to product managers and sales directors.   

We’re hiring, too — please help us connect with an analyst or senior analyst by sharing these openings with your network. 
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