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BioDigital Human Anatomy System Expands Possibilities for Virtual Bodies

by Gene Ostrovsky on May 24, 2012 •

There have been a lot of human anatomy simulators made over the years, but when we saw the BioDigital Human at the last TEDMED we were sold. Here’s John Qualter, co-founder of BioDigital Systems, and Dr. Marc Triola, Associate Dean for Educational Informatics at NYU School of Medicine, talking about the simulator and what led to its development.

Here’s our interview with Marc and John from the TEDMED Innovation Hub, including close up demo of the BioDigital Human:

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Flashback: BioDigital Human at TEDMED 2012

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Exclusive: A Closer Look at the Magnifi iPhone Optical Adapter

by Brian Klein on May 23, 2012
Exclusive: A Closer Look at the Magnifi iPhone Optical Adapter

Last month, Medgadget announced the development of the Magnifi iPhone adapter from start-up Arcturus Labs (Palo Alto, CA), which connects your iPhone 4 or 4S to optical instruments ranging from microscopes to binoculars and telescopes.

To learn more about the evolution of the Magnifi, we spoke with newlyweds Xianne and Isaac Penny who came up with the rough idea for the device while in grad school at Stanford University. They began the development of the product after graduating. Isaac Penny also worked as an engineer at Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, CA), where he helped create the daVinci Single-Site line of instruments.

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Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: N4A Diabetes Care Center

by Nicholas Genes on May 22, 2012
Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: N4A Diabetes Care Center

Among all the semi-finalists for Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Demo Day, we think N4A Diabetes Care Center was the most unexpected and confusing. N4A dates back to 1960′s legislation on aging, and is a loose affiliation of state agencies around aging. N4A literally stands for Advocacy, Actions, and Answers on Aging.

As Sandra Mark Woods explained in her presentation, they’re not an app, not software, nor offering live streaming, but they are a data-driven organization and “high-touch” in diabetes management. N4A is a Title VI organization that has been providing services in communities for decades. They are involved in Meals-on-Wheels, depression counseling, transport of patients to providers, and chronic disease management services. Millions use it, they have 800 million patient records and a diabetes index with 30 million maps.

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Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: LiveHealth

by Nicholas Genes on May 22, 2012
Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: LiveHealth

Next up in our coverage of semi-finalists for Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Demo Day is LiveHealth.

LiveHealth CEO Chris Gay started off by showing data that demonstrates that diabetes self-management can really help compliance and health outcomes — but education necessary for proper self-management requires 15 visits in the first year alone, which is too much for many patients, especially those without reliable transport or means.

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Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Semi-Finalist: EnduringFx

by Nicholas Genes on May 22, 2012
Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Semi-Finalist: EnduringFx

We think the most ambitious idea among semi-finalists for Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Demo Day came from EnduringFX, which used to be called Activity-based Integrated Data Model (seriously? another good idea on the name change, guys!)

EnduringFX’s president and founder, Jim Stritzinger, looks a bit like a young Tim cook. He’s from South Carolina, and a lot of EnduringFX’s activity is focused so far in that state. He began his pitch noting that American obesity is driving the terrible numbers we’re seeing in diabetes, as well as CHF and arthritis … 42% of the population is projected to be obese by 2030. He showed a heat map for how much of the US South is at risk for diabetes.

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Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: GreenDot

by Nicholas Genes on May 22, 2012
Diabetes Design Demo Day Semi-Finalist: GreenDot

Next up in our coverage of semi-finalists for Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Demo Day is GreenDot, which used to be called Diabetes 3.0 (good idea on the name change, guys!)

GreenDot was started by two UCSF endocrinologists – Jenise Wong and Aaron Neinstein. We believe they’re the only doctor-originated company in this bunch. They were frustrated, and their patients were frustrated, with the overwhelming amount of data generated by pumps and glucometers. Data in its own format, and in nonstandard layouts, is challenging for patients to interpret and difficult for doctors to compare.

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Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Semi-Finalist: iRetainRx

by Nicholas Genes on May 21, 2012
Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Semi-Finalist: iRetainRx

First up in our coverage of semi-finalists for Sanofi‘s Data Design Diabetes Demo Day is iRetainRx. Previous coverage here and here.

iRetainRx’s founder and CEO, David Parpart, began the pitch boldly, by saying, “We are going to save 500,000 lives this decade.” He then went on to describe how their interactive mobile system will allow caregivers, patients and pharmacists to collaborate on care plans. See, for every 100 prescriptions, only a fraction are filled, and only a fraction of those are even taken correctly. This attrition is particularly difficult with diabetes, where the regimens are complicated, the effect of the drugs can be hard to notice, and yet: noncompliance leads to huge extra social costs.

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Dr. Oz, Practice Fusion Give Philadelphia a Physical (video interview)

by Shiv Gaglani on May 21, 2012
Dr. Oz, Practice Fusion Give Philadelphia a Physical (video interview)

What do one of the most recognizable doctors in America and a rapidly growing electronic medical record (EMR) start-up have in common? Apparently, a commitment to public health and fascination with health data. This past weekend Medgadget was invited to observe Dr. Mehmet Oz, of The Dr. Oz Show, team up with Practice Fusion to screen a few hundred Philadelphians at the Temple University School of Medicine. Dozens of physicians and medical students were on hand to provide a “15-minute physical” consisting of BMI, blood pressure, and waist circumference measurements as well as lab tests including a lipid panel (HDL, LDL, and triglycerides) and blood glucose, made possible by Alere‘s mobile lab device, Cholestech LDX, which synced directly to Practice Fusion’s EMR. This allowed Practice Fusion to generate a real-time “report card” for Philadelphia, which Dr. Oz then presented to Mayor Michael Nutter in addition to taking the Mayor’s blood pressure (135/80) and waist circumference.

We had the opportunity to catch up with Practice Fusion as well as Dr. Oz and his medical unit’s clinical event director, Mike Hoaglin (pictured above with Dr. Oz), to ask them about the screening and what excites them about collecting city-wide data.

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Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Coverage

by Nicholas Genes on May 21, 2012
Data Design Diabetes Demo Day Coverage

On Wednesday evening we had the chance to return to Blueprint Health HQ for the Sanofi-sponsored contest event called Data Design Diabetes Demo Day (brought to you DDAVP). Medgadget spoke with some of the judges last month about the challenges of diabetes care, the goals of DDDemo day, and their choices for the five semi-finalists.

Well, on Wednesday the five semi-finalists had their chance to present their plans for improving US diabetes care: Greendot, EnduringFX, LiveHealth, iRetainRx, and N4A Diabetes Care Center.

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