Apr 26, 2020

Health Digest - Covid vs Everyone!

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Health

The latest news and information about innovations in healthcare.

Hi folks,

Alaedine’s here. I hope that you and your family are safe 💪

➡️ This week has been tremendously disrupting regarding healthcare, worldwide. While the Covid crisis still goes on, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and healthcare professionals are pivoting their focus to commit to the fight against the virus.

▶️ We triied here to summarize some of the main news. Two very recent publications show the advancement of AI, both in radiotherapy and cardiology. The rest of the news are covid-focused. As you may know, Google and Apple are teaming up to create a contact tracing app. Amazon also commit to the fight, in partnership with Fred Hutch. You’ll also find at the end some of the main fundraising news, and a (very classic but important) book recommandation.

Take good care 🙏,

Alaedine

What about science?

Each week, we curate some scientific articles that introduce a disrupting innovation or a worth-reading opinion.

Machine Learning to Predict Stent Restenosis | Canadian Journal of Cardiology

This study sought to use ML to discriminate stent restenosis (SR) compared with existing predictive scores of SR.

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AI in radiotherapy: state of the art and future directions | Medical Oncology

Recent advances in computing capability allowed the development of sophisticated predictive models to assess complex relationships within observational data.

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Week's hot trends and impacts

Thoughts on GAFA moves and the after-crisis.

Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility | TechCrunch

Apple and Google have provided a number of updates about the technical details of their joint contact tracing system, which they’re now exclusively referring to as an “exposure notification” technology.

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Fred Hutch launches new COVID-19 volunteer study | Fredhutch

Boeckh and colleagues from Fred Hutch’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division research team will manage the study. Amazon will support them with funding and technical expertise and infrastructure.

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AI is helping triage coronavirus patients. The tools may be here to stay. | MIT Technology Review

Faced with staff shortages and overwhelming patient loads, a growing number of hospitals are turning to automated tools to help them manage the pandemic. Maybe they should keep them.

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Life after COVID-19: What Will Change? | The Medical Futurist

COVID-19 will come to an end without doubt. We will get back to our lives and visit the great outdoors. But that life will be significantly different from the one we had before the outbreak.

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For VCs

Some of the biggest fundraising/acquisition of the week.