Digital Surgery: The Robot will Augment the Surgeon Now

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In this week's Exponential Medicine (xMed) newsletter catch top news (links below) impacting the future of technology, healthcare and biomedicine. Included below is a compelling talk from last year's Exponential Medicine on Digital Surgery and augmenting clinicians.

I hope you join me next week (Nov 4-7th) and innovators from around the globe for Exponential Medicine 2019. Here is the updated four-day agenda and a look at our world-class faculty. We will also be l ive-streaming xMed starting at 12:45pm PST on November 4th.

Digital Surgery - The Robot Will Assist the Surgeon Now: How will clinicians increasingly augment their knowledge, and interact and partner with sophisticated robotics, using augmented reality, AI, data analytics & machine learning? Surgeon and innovator extraordinaire Dr. Shafi Ahmed shared his vision for the future in this compelling talk from Exponential Medicine 2018 on how clinical interventions can become more objective, precise, reliable and available.

Watch: Digital Surgery- The Future of the Augmented Clinician

All the best,

Daniel

Daniel Kraft, MD
Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University
@Daniel_Kraft @ExponentialMed

NEWS IMPACTING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH & MEDICINE

Healthcare Tech and Trends
12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s (TIME)
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing (NYTimes)
Health-care system causing rampant burnout among doctors, nurses (Washington Post)
How Doctors Can Help Prevent Gun Violence (HBR)

Future of Diagnosis & Therapy

Smaller, lighter, cheaper: A serial entrepreneur wants his portable MRI to transform medicine (STAT)
CVS Health takes telemed nationwide with MinuteClinic Video Visits (HDM)
He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care (TIME)
Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Better at Controlling Blood Glucose than Current Treatments (MedGadget)

Digital Health & Medicine
Facebook's Preventive Health tool urges you to take screening tests (Engadget)
First Portable Carb Metabolism Monitor Unveiled (MedGadget)

Google parent Alphabet makes offer to buy Fitbit (CNBC)

New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous again (WIRED)
Amazon acquires start-up Health Navigator, its first health-related purchase since PillPack (CNBC)

Future of Pharma
Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic? (NYTimes)
Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction (Oxford)
How cloud technologies continue to enable innovation in the pharmaceutical industry (CloudTech)

AI, BigData & Machine Learning
AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster (Engadget)
A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients (Verge)
Ransomware and data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks (PBS)
Patient-specific reconstruction of volumetric computed tomography images from a single projection view via deep learning (Nature)

Genomics, Gene Editing & Beyond
Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases (Nature)
With These 4 Breakthroughs, We’ll Be Able to Write Whole Genomes From Scratch (Singularity Hub)
Why Isn’t There a Diet That Works for Everyone? (NYTimes)

The Brain, Neuromedicine & Mental Health
Merging With Machines: A Look at Emerging Neuroscience Technologies (TechNetworks)
Genomic prediction of depression risk and resilience under stress (Nature)
Working Americans Are Getting Less Sleep, Especially Those Who Save Our Lives (NPR)

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