// 31 Biggest Heathtech Updates

1// Amazon jumps into direct-to-consumer telehealth, launching a rival to Ro and Hims: True to its e-commerce expertise, Amazon is jumping into the world of direct-to-consumer telehealth. On Tuesday, the tech goliath launched a virtual health storefront that individuals can access through the main Amazon website and its mobile app, offering the ability to message teleproviders and obtain prescriptions for about 20 health conditions. To read more, click here

2// Global Digital Health 100 - The Medical Futurist's Top Choices in 2022

3// Doctors using AI catch breast cancer more often than either does alone: A new study shows that artificial intelligence can also handle more than half of scans automatically, dramatically reducing radiologists’ workloads. To know more, read here

4// Google Will Let Healthcare Organizations Use Its AI To Analyze And Store X-Rays: Google on Tuesday announced a new set of artificial intelligence tools aimed at letting healthcare organizations use the search giant’s software and servers to read, store and label X-rays, MRIs and other medical imaging. To read more, follow the link. Source: Forbes

5// How 6 health systems are using AI to improve patient care: Hospitals are using AI to improve health outcomes, clinician workflows and patient care. Here are six artificial intelligence projects health systems have recently created and deployed as reported by Becker's Hospital Review. To read more, follow the link. Source: Becker's Hospital Review

6// Verily clinches $1B from parent company Alphabet, shakes up leadership team: Verily is preparing to expand its precision health businesses and got a $1 billion boost from its parent company?to fuel its next stage of growth.Alphabet's life sciences arm also announced a leadership shakeup as company founder Andy Conrad will shift to an advisory role. Conrad will become executive?chairman of the Verily Board and current president Stephen Gillett?is moving into the CEO role to take over day-to-day leadership.To read more, follow the link. Source: FierceHealthcare

7//Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression: Using Instagram data from 166 individuals, we applied machine learning tools to successfully identify markers of depression. Statistical features were computationally extracted from 43,950 participant Instagram photos, using color analysis, metadata components, and algorithmic face detection. Resulting models outperformed general practitioners’ average unassisted diagnostic success rate for depression

Source // epjdatascience

8// Nearly two-thirds of doctors are experiencing at least one symptom of burnout, a huge increase from before the pandemic. But the situation is not irreparable, researchers say.

Source : NY Times

9// Alphabet’s health tech company raises $1 billion to counter Amazon’s One Medical acquisition in a growing health tech ‘arms race’: Verily, the?Alphabet Inc.?life sciences unit that experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses and launched Covid-19 testing programs, said it raised $1 billion in new investments led by its parent company, padding its war chest as the health-tech market heats up. To read more, click here. Source: Fortune

10// Digital Health Tools Need a New Benchmark: The good AI and healthtech can do is undisputed, but testing new technology using old methods is holding it back.A recent study by healthtech seed fund Rock Health and Johns Hopkins University demonstrated the extent of the problem. The researchers reviewed the associated clinical trials, regulatory claims filings, and listed outcomes by 224 healthcare companies. Surprisingly, only 20 percent achieved the threshold considered acceptable for rigorously tested solutions. This situation, of course, represents a barrier in the uptake of new innovations in health care.

Source : WIRED

11// AI Timelines: What Do Experts in Artificial Intelligence Expect for the Future?Artificial intelligence that surpasses our own intelligence sounds like the stuff from science fiction books or films. What do experts in the field of AI research think about such scenarios? Do they dismiss these ideas as fantasy, or are they taking such prospects seriously?

12//The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures Is Here: Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a?trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received a one-time gene therapy meant to override a DNA mutation that causes spontaneous bleeding episodes, some of them severe and life-threatening. Unlike most drugs, which relieve symptoms, gene therapy addresses the underlying cause of a disease. Thanks to the treatment, they haven’t had to worry about serious bleeding for years