April - May 2013: Health Tech Innovation

News worthy articles on health tech innovation: April - May 2013

1. Practice Fusion article

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/practice-fusion-continues-to-reach-beyond-digital-health-records-adds-free-expense-tracking-to-new-booking-engine/

2. Health Tap

http://allthingsd.com/20130508/healthtap-raises-a-more-than-healthy-24m-in-funding/?mod=atd_email_daily_list

3. The Smartphone Physical: You Can Now Get A Good Amateur Check-Up From Your Phone

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681907/the-smartphone-physical-you-can-now-get-a-good-amateur-check-up-from-your-phone

4. Scanadu:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680950/scanadus-medical-tricorder-will-measure-your-vital-signs-in-seconds

5.Rockhealth:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679133/the-future-of-digital-health-is-lurking-in-san-franciscos-chinatown

6. Race to build a start trek worthy medical tricorder:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679101/the-race-to-build-a-star-trek-worthy-medical-tricorder

Article on Scanadu and Senstore

The $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, officially announced this week, challenges entrants to create mobile platform that can accurately diagnose 15 diseases across 30 patients in three days.

The tricorder can be viewed broken into a few component pieces: a biological sensor input (i.e. exhaling your breath to allow the chemical components to be analyzed), vital signs, imaging components (used to identify a rash, for example), and the AI software that can make sense of all the inputs.

7. Comparing Nike Fuelband, Jawbone

When wireless headset company Jawbone announced plans Tuesday to buy wearable sensor maker BodyMedia for what a source said was more than $100 million, it may well have marked a turning point for wearable computing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57582475-76/google-nike-jawbone-and-the-fight-to-win-wearable-computing/?goback=%2Egde_2181454_member_237723537

Right now, much of the data collected from wrist monitors such as Jawbone's Up, as well as heart-rate monitors, sleep-pattern sensing devices, bicycling cyclometers and more exist in digital silos. It's not easy to look at the different collections of data at the same time to determine, for example, if a series of poor running performances might have been related to several nights of fitful sleep.

"At the end of the day, you want to see how one pattern links to another pattern," said Travis Bogard, Jawbone's vice president of product management and strategy

8. Jawbone’s aquisition of Body Media:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-jawbone-bodymedia-idUSBRE93T0M420130430

FDA ruling on mHealth apps

9. Biosense Urinalysis Diagnostic:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/fda-gets-pissy-with-urinalysis-app/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/29/the-fda-launches-first-inquiry-into-medical-iphone-app/

10. Digital health goes global

http://www.mhimss.org/news/digital-health-goes-global

11.  Why VCs should love hardware startups

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/02/why-vcs-should-love-hardware-startups/

12. Flatiron:  Google Ventures invests $8M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/flatiron-health-raises-8m-from-google-ventures-first-round-to-build-an-intelligent-data-platform-for-oncology/

13. How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain, April 25th

 http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/

14. Dollars and Scents from Time, March 18th, 2013:  article on scent and breath analyzer technology, highlights Adamant Technologies
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2137995,00.html