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Hi <<First Name>>,

In this week's Exponential Medicine (xMed) newsletter see top news (linked below) including on Coronavirus (and use of AI, sequencing, drones and other technologies to track, diagnose, isolate, contain, and treat this new high threat pathogen), and other top stories impacting the future of health and biomedicine.

Nurses Included: EntrepreNURSE, Year of The Nurse
Nurses are the bedrock of healthcare and vital to digital transformation. Despite being the most trusted profession, nurses’ potential to improve health outcomes and lead system change is often underestimated and their expertise underutilized. #TechnologyNeedsNurses. To identify the gaps in care and unmet needs, develop and test solutions that work, and implement and scale widespread adoption. Nurses are too often underrepresented while serving an incredible source of expertise and for advancement in health and medicine as innovators and leaders with the power to transform health. My friend and colleague Shawna Butler RN MBA is a key part of the Exponential Medicine team, and at xMed 2019 shared the 'EntrepreNURSE' perspective, and how nurses are playing a role in technology, community and global health, and policy at the local, national and institutional level. WHO has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife as a call to action to improve health by elevating the role of nurses and move them into senior roles of leadership.

Watch: EntrepreNURSE. Empowered. Enabled. And Not Waiting.

SEE YOU NOW Spotlights Nurses’ Expertise in Health Innovation. On a daily basis, the public trusts nurses to work with billions of dollars of technology, devices, pharmaceuticals, data and human lives. Nurses are discovering the gaps in care and driving solutions, often under the radar, in every care setting they work in. SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working on the maternity care crisis, with outbreaks of infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business and tech. Hosted by Exponential Medicine's very own nurse economist and health technology specialist Shawna Butler RN MBA. Have a listen and share at SeeYouNowPodcast.com!

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
How AI Is Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak (WIRED)
Global genomics project unravels cancer’s complexity at unprecedented scale (Nature)
The Real Epidemic: Not Burnout But 'Moral Injury' Of Doctors Unable To Do Right By Patients (WBUR)
‘A Supercenter for health’: Walmart places a big bet on cheaper, less intimidating primary care (STAT)
What Ebola Taught Us About Collaboration and Communication (SeeYouNow)
How drones are being used to address the coronavirus (Slate)

Future of Diagnosis
Israeli med-tech start-up launches smartphone app to monitor wounds (Jerusalem Post)
Coronavirus: UCSF expert working on quicker diagnostic test to stop spread (SF Chronicle)
Our environments will watch us and react in the next frontier of personalisation (WIRED UK)
How Simple Blood Tests Could Revolutionize Cancer Treatment (Smithsonian)
The Age of the Medical Selfie (Tech Nation Health)

Future of Therapy
CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer (Science)
New Robot Does Superior Job Sampling Blood (Rutgers)
Another Use for 3-D Printing: Pulmonary Stents (Medivizor)
Randomized Trial of a Virtual Reality Tool to Teach Surgical Technique (J of Surgical Education)
Biorobotic Hybrid Heart to Help Develop New Cardiac Implants (Medgadget)

Digital Health & Medicine

This Startup Is Screening Kids’ Eyes With an App Instead of a $20,000 Device (Bloomberg)

Daniel Kraft reflects on 2019 and transformative ideas for the decade ahead (Digital Health Today)
Wearable Patch Uses Machine Learning to Detect Sleep Apnea (IEEE)
Wearable Monitor Provides Continuous Blood Pressure Data (Medgadget)
An App a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: 8 At-Home Health Monitoring Startups (CTECH)

AI, BigData & Machine Learning
Epic’s call to block a proposed data rule is wrong for many reasons (STAT)
AI-assisted cardiac ultrasound guidance software receives De Novo clearance (MobiHealth)
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund 30 patient groups, aiming to build a model for tackling rare diseases (STAT)
10 ways health care AI could transform primary care (AMA)

Fitbit data could help predict real-time flu outbreaks (Business Insider)

Future of Pharma
China Begins Testing an Antiviral Drug in Coronavirus Patients (NYTimes)
Macrophage-Drug Combo Nanoparticle Reduces and Stabilizes Atherosclerotic Plaque (GenEng)
The FDA wants to know how Instagram influencers sway patient views on medicines (STAT)

Would you take a drug discovered by artificial intelligence? (Vox)

Genomics, Gene Editing & Beyond
CRISPR'd Cells Show Promise in First US Human Safety Trial (WIRED)
Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off (Nature)
These start-ups are racing to help doctors detect cancer early with a simple blood test (CNBC)
Genomics: data sharing needs an international code of conduct (Nature)

The Brain, Neuromedicine & Mental Health
Verily’s Bold New Project Aims to Predict Depression Using Your Phone (Singularity Hub)
Turning to digital technology to improve access to mental health care (MobiHealth)
The biggest, most detailed map yet made of brain cells (The Economist)