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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. citizens’ personal data. But the U.S. Should it be?