Lab Report

May 9, 2019
No. 88

THIS WEEK
A digital health reading list.

Plus: social care networks, AI humor, and expanding access to science.

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EVENTS

New models, new tech, new questions

Conference season is in full swing. This week, Luminary Labs Head of Client Services Janna Gilbert has been discussing collaborative solutions to global challenges at SOLVE at MIT while CEO Sara Holoubek and Senior Strategist Jon Roberts have been tracking the latest in digital health at MM&M Transforming Healthcare and Rock Health’s Enterprise Insights Series.

As we enter the next decade of digital health, the role of the chief digital officer is evolving. New technologies like digital therapeutics require new business models and prompt new questions about everything from reimbursement and regulatory frameworks to HIPAA compliance and health tech ethics. How will your business adapt to FDA pre-certification? What will Facebook’s privacy violations mean for patient support groups? How will your company lay the infrastructure for digital biomarkers? How will you move beyond “patient centricity” to build something customers genuinely love?

Making better investments in digital health will require both incumbents and startups to focus on solving real problems. Use this reading list — a selection of our insights and case studies on digital health — to fuel conversations inside your own company.

The role of the chief digital officer in a 21st-century pharma: The digital heads at Bayer, GSK, Novartis, Sanofi, and Johnson & Johnson shared what they are working on and how they are doing it.
Making a smarter bet on digital health: How we helped a global pharmaceutical align customer needs with business goals and advance to a targeted set of high-potential ideas.
The innovation arc: Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant. We charted voice technology’s trajectory from shiny object to creating enterprise value.
Rise of the health tech ethicist: Experts weigh in on the ethics challenges facing business, academia, and big tech in the age of digital biomarkers.
Taking the long view on digital health data: Following a decade of pilots, a leading pharmaceutical wanted to develop an investment thesis and roadmap for an enterprise-wide digital biomarker initiative.
5 reflections on 10 years of digital health: We asked the founders of StartUp Health, Rock Health, and Health 2.0 what's changed over the past decade and where the industry is heading.

See more from this week’s conferences: follow Sara, Janna, and Jon on Twitter.

Insights & updates

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Tool Foundry spoke with Schmidt Futures Chief Innovation Officer Tom Kalil about the connection between accessible tools, scientific discovery, and a more equitable society.

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Artificial intelligence is now learning puns and generating inspirational quotes.

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A new Kaiser Permanente initiative plans to connect members to community services that address their social needs — from food insecurity to housing instability.

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“The moon is hot again.”

Cool job alert

NYU’s ITP/IMA program is hiring a makerspace lab manager in New York.

The Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation is searching for its first executive director in Menlo Park, California.

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences is hiring a post-doctoral research scientist to work in the NOAA NCEI Geomagnetism group at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Coding it Forward is looking for mentors for its 2019 Civic Digital Fellows in the Washington, D.C., area.

We’re hiring an analyst or senior analyst in New York. Please share these openings with your network.

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Email Jessica Hibbard, managing editor: editor@luminary-labs.com.