technologies disrupting healthcare (webinar)

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Technologies Disrupting Healthcare

Ashish Advani, PharmD

Clinical Associate Professor, Mercer University

Drug Information Pharmacist, Atlanta Medical Center

Founder, InpharmD

December 31, 2015

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Google

=semisecret division that uses data to drive technological advances

If they find a sweet spot of ensuring the privacy of our data but leveraging it to

further health technology, [Google X] may be able to affect major changes such as

a cancer-detecting pill, smart contact lens for diabetic patients, and even a

medical record open sharing platform.

-Huffington Post

=independent research and development biotech company established

in 2013 with a goal of combating aging and associated diseases

Partners:

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IBM

Watson= supercomputer designed to mimic how human cognition

works (hence, how we learn), born ten years ago

Watson is currently learning how to better prevent and treat cancer.

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23 and Me

2006-2013: Sold genetic tests directly to consumers

2013: Food and Drug Administration deemed they could no longer

give patients health information after they completed genetic tests,

but they still claim to sell “a lot” of kits

2015: Plans to start inventing medicines itself

Blood data is the most valuable because you can tie it to diagnosis…This,

plus medical records (Blue Button), activity data, and environmental data

(per GPS), will be extremely valuable in the future.

-Anne Wojcicki, CEO

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Medisafe

About half of all

Americans prescribed

medication take it

regularly.

And half of those don't

even take it properly.

2012: Launch

2014: Revealed that Type 2 diabetic users of its technology boasted

adherence rates of 26% higher than standard rates for long-term therapies

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PillPack

Twenty percent of Americans take five or more prescription drugs and

managing all of those medications can be a nightmare.

Robots sort pills into

personalized packets,

saving money on human

labor.

2014: Launch

2015:

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Apple + Other Wearables

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Demo

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