// 10 Business Model & AI Special

1// Virtual reality helps doctors separate twins joined at the brain: A Great Ormond Street Hospital surgeon has helped to successfully separate conjoined twins using virtual reality technology.Noor ul Owase Jeelani, a Kashmiri-British paediatric neurosurgeon, was involved in operating on Bernardo and Arthur Lima, three-year-old twins who were born with fused brains. To read the full article click // Source: The Times UK

2// The 4 trends driving platform adoption in health care: According to Bain, seven of the 10 largest companies in the world are powered by platforms, which host interactions and transactions among corporate or personal users. The same cannot (yet) be said for the health care industry, where point-to-point, manual interactions among disparate entities remain common. To read the full article click // Source:MIT

3// This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside hospitals obsolete: Cera, a U.K. provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (￡260 million) in an equity and debt financing round, split roughly 50/50. To read the full article click // Source:Techcrunch

4// Why Health Must Be a Key Focus for Every Business, Regardless of Industry: One measure of a good physician is how well they handle tough questions.?In the Miami clinic where I practice, I’m used to quashing confusion, whether it’s from the older couple who doesn’t understand the implications of a diabetes diagnosis or the young man who wonders whether a diet of energy drinks and supplements can prevent disease. Most patients want the same thing: clarity.To read the full article click // Source: Salesforce

5// Artificial Intelligence Edges Closer to the Clinic: the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic presented a huge challenge to healthcare workers. Doctors struggled to predict how different patients would fare under treatment against the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. Deciding how to triage medical resources when presented with very little information took a mental and physical toll on caregivers as the pandemic progressed.To read the full article click // Source:PNNL

6// Unboxing AI - Radiological Insights Into a Deep Neural Network for Lung Nodule Characterization: A 20-layer deep residual CNN was trained on 1245 Chest CTs from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) trial to predict the malignancy risk of a nodule. We used occlusion to systematically block regions of a nodule and map drops in malignancy risk score to generate clinical attribution heatmaps on 103 nodules from the Lung Image Database Consortium image collection and Image Database Resource Initiative (LIDC-IDRI) dataset, which were analyzed by a thoracic radiologist. To read the full article click // Source: PUBMED

7// Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity and improve health: a systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: Wearable activity trackers offer an appealing, low-cost tool to address physical inactivity. This systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (umbrella review) aimed to examine the effectiveness of activity trackers for improving physical activity and related physiological and psychosocial outcomes in clinical and non-clinical populations. To read the full article click // Source: TheLancet

8// 3M will spin off its healthcare business into a new public company: 3M announced Tuesday it will spin off its healthcare business into a separate publicly traded company.The new business will focus on the wound and oral care, health-care IT and biopharma filtration, the material science company said in a release. That includes products like bandages, skin adhesives, oral aligners, air purifiers and optical lenses.To read the full article click // Source: CNBC

9// // Idea >> Execution Pivot Kit: What differentiates class entrepreneurs from the mass is their ability to bring an idea alive into action with high levels of predictable outcomes.My several conversations with such high-performance entrepreneurs have always given me some directional insight to understand the very process around "How They Think ?" and "How They Solve Differently ?"Here's a little cheat sheet built out of those learnings. A canvas that can help you move your idea from 0 > 1.No surprises, putting ideas to action needs persistence, planning and tackling the right questions. Feel free to download this high res version & yes, feel free to share your feedback and areas for improvisation. Linkedin optimises file size and you may lose clarity. To download a high res version of the toolkit, please follow this link

10// On Bringing Ideas Alive // Step 0 // [Product: Market] X Fit: For every startup that succeeds, upwards of 10,000 startups don't make it to the next. While this stat seems staggering, what is very much controllable is - having an even more profound understanding of the economic value / societal value / environmental value the idea is able to generate. Back to the drawing board, here's a very simple & easily deducible framework - that can help one navigate the idea into action. Most popularly, known as the "Product-Market Fit Framework'.Getting back to basics at all times can help go back to the zero point and assess point 1. To download a high res version of the toolkit, please follow this link