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Hi <<First Name>>,
 
Welcome to the Exponential Medicine (xMed) newsletter.  Below you'll find curated links to recent news I've curated that are relevant to the future of health and biomedicine, as well as the first released talk from Exponential Medicine 2019.

Redesigning Healthcare: The Evolution of Health Systems (No Waiting Rooms Included):  The modern nature of disease has changed. The modern healthcare system has not. The hospitals that anchor our healthcare systems are not so different from those of 100 years ago.   Stacey Chang is Executive Director of The Design Institute for Health, a collaboration between the new Dell Medical School and UT Austin dedicated to applying design approaches to solving healthcare challenges. They ask how can new systems, from hospitals to clinics be built to get at the core of the systemic problems in healthcare most often based on chronic disease and rooted in social, behavioral and genetic factors. In this terrific xMed keynote  Stacey shares a globally applicable framework and approach, demonstrating the impact of 'Integrated Practice Units' where waiting rooms have been eliminated, to 'Integrated Hyper-local Care' that includes medical, dental, and psychological support. 
Exponential Medicine '19 Summary
 
Aviation & Medicine
I've been fortunate to have blended my interest in space and aviation with medicine (which included a recent opportunity to fly (or try to...) a jet suit :-).  I served for over a decade as a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard with F-15 and F-16 squadrons and was recently interviewed by F-35 fighter pilot Justin 'Hasard' Lee on his Professionals Playbook (top-ranked/rated new Podcast) where we discuss the lessons from aviation that apply to healthcare and opportunities and challenges in innovation on the ground or in the air. Have a listen...
 

 
In case you missed it: Check out Summaries from Exponential Medicine 2019:  Exponential Medicine 2019 featured over 70 faculty in 26 main-stage sessions over 4 days.

All the best and Happy Holidays!
Daniel
 

 
NEWS IMPACTING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH & MEDICINE
Future of Diagnosis & Therapy
Toshiba develops way to accurately detect cancers from drop of blood (Mainichi)
Surgeons Transplant a Testicle From One Brother to His Twin (NYTimes)
Partners Healthcare Launching $100 Million Digital Health Initiative (Boston Globe)
Google Isn't Looking To Revolutionize Health Care, It Just Wants To Improve On The Status Quo (Newsweek)
DIY diabetes tech gains popularity with patients and parents fed up with clunky mainstream medical devices (Washington Post)
A glitch in diabetes monitors serves as a cautionary tale for health tech (STAT)
 
Future of Pharma
Biogen’s potential new drug for Alzheimer’s disease gets cautiously optimistic review (WPost)
Statin Use Over 65 Years of Age and All-Cause Mortality (Medscape)
Miracle Cancer Drugs Are Making Big Pharma Billions. Others Are Getting Left Behind (Bloomberg)

AI, BigData & Machine Learning
AI Screening for diabetic retinopathy is moving to retail clinics (Digest International)
Why AI Will Be the Best Tool for Extending Our Longevity (Singularity Hub)
Big data may not be enough to predict injuries in the NFL (The Verge)
AI & Reinventing the eye exam (Lancet)

Genomics, Gene Editing & Beyond
Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China (New Scientist)
Gene therapy is facing its biggest challenge yet (Nature)
Apple is offering free genetic tests to all its Silicon Valley employees (CNBC)
Our Bodies Age in Three Distinct Shifts, According to More Than 4,000 Blood Tests (Science Alert)
Study: The human lifespan is written into our DNA (Phys.org)

The Brain, Neuromedicine & Mental Health
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