• Mashup Score: 2

    For at least a decade, nearly every tech company has promoted their product as facilitating the “democratization” of something – perhaps “data driven medicine,” or “genetic information” or “access to clinical trials” or “digital health” (all real examples).  Like “mission-driven,” “results-oriented,” and “disruptive,” the term “democratization” has become so overused by the tech community that… Read More

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    • Just posted - new @timmermanreport piece about how ingratiating chatbots and a virtuous food app are potent examples of democratization of technology - perhaps (but not inevitably) for the better. https://t.co/tgr9SSKUnw cc @zakkohane @goldbergcarey @peteratmsr

  • Mashup Score: 6

    While medical advances have afforded us the luxury of longer lives, we now spend many of our later years coping with the ravages of chronic illnesses of aging — cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s, and cancer.  Many of these conditions seem linked to long-term exposure to low grade systemic inflammation, a… Read More

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    • Exciting day, 2/2: Latest @timmermanreport column concisely summarizing my thoughts on agency & health, and offering a more expansive framework for personal health companies, one based on cultivating agency, the ATP of behavior change: https://t.co/zYBMpfvVSf

  • Mashup Score: 6

    While medical advances have afforded us the luxury of longer lives, we now spend many of our later years coping with the ravages of chronic illnesses of aging — cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s, and cancer.  Many of these conditions seem linked to long-term exposure to low grade systemic inflammation, a… Read More

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    • Exciting day, 2/2: Latest @timmermanreport column concisely summarizing my thoughts on agency & health, and offering a more expansive framework for personal health companies, one based on cultivating agency, the ATP of behavior change: https://t.co/zYBMpfvVSf

  • Mashup Score: 1

    Consumer health and wellness is experiencing a flurry of activity.  The lab testing company Function (motto: “It’s time to own your health”) acquired Ezra, a whole body MRI company promising “the world’s most advanced longevity scan.”    Oura, maker of the popular smart ring, recently added an integration for continuous glucose measurement as well as… Read More

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    • A lot of thoughts distilled into my latest @timmermanreport piece celebrating recent progress towards a "personal health OS," but, thinking of @KAnthonyAppiah @jerryzmuller, urging us to aspire to a vision of health more capacious than dashboard metrics. https://t.co/KnZMY6mKCe

  • Mashup Score: 6

    In 2011, we were experiencing the ascension of technologies like the cloud and the smartphone.  Apps had become a thing: social network apps like Instagram (the iPhone “App of the Year” in 2011) and Twitter, utility apps like Evernote and Dropbox, navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze, and game apps like Angry Birds. Yet… Read More

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    • In latest @timmermanreport, I describe AI chasm in pharma R&D, the deep skepticism towards AI among seasoned R&D scientists, & how rapid adoption of clinical AI platform @EvidenceOpen shows how fast things can change https://t.co/e5vsxZgIRm @zakkohane @emollick @ScottGottliebMD

  • Mashup Score: 1

    Consumer health and wellness is experiencing a flurry of activity.  The lab testing company Function (motto: “It’s time to own your health”) acquired Ezra, a whole body MRI company promising “the world’s most advanced longevity scan.”    Oura, maker of the popular smart ring, recently added an integration for continuous glucose measurement as well as… Read More

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    • A lot of thoughts distilled into my latest @timmermanreport piece celebrating recent progress towards a "personal health OS," but, thinking of @KAnthonyAppiah @jerryzmuller, urging us to aspire to a vision of health more capacious than dashboard metrics. https://t.co/KnZMY6mKCe

  • Mashup Score: 1

    Consumer health and wellness is experiencing a flurry of activity.  The lab testing company Function (motto: “It’s time to own your health”) acquired Ezra, a whole body MRI company promising “the world’s most advanced longevity scan.”    Oura, maker of the popular smart ring, recently added an integration for continuous glucose measurement as well as… Read More

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    • A lot of thoughts distilled into my latest @timmermanreport piece celebrating recent progress towards a "personal health OS," but, thinking of @KAnthonyAppiah @jerryzmuller, urging us to aspire to a vision of health more capacious than dashboard metrics. https://t.co/KnZMY6mKCe

  • Mashup Score: 1

    Consumer health and wellness is experiencing a flurry of activity.  The lab testing company Function (motto: “It’s time to own your health”) acquired Ezra, a whole body MRI company promising “the world’s most advanced longevity scan.”    Oura, maker of the popular smart ring, recently added an integration for continuous glucose measurement as well as… Read More

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    • A lot of thoughts distilled into my latest @timmermanreport piece celebrating recent progress towards a "personal health OS," but, thinking of @KAnthonyAppiah @jerryzmuller, urging us to aspire to a vision of health more capacious than dashboard metrics. https://t.co/KnZMY6mKCe