Sun.Dec 15, 2019

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Proteus : What's gone wrong at the Billion Dollar Digital Health and Smart Pill Startup?

Lloyd Price

Proteus Digital Health’s CEO once confidently proclaimed that in a couple of decades, “every medicine will have a chip in it.” At a time when many companies are trying to break into the airy realm of digital health, and getting funded, Proteus seemed to not only be making headway toward its CEO’s ambitious vision, but to have the bona fides to back it up.

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Industry Voices—Nutrition is a 'blind spot' in patient care that needs prioritizing

FierceHealthIT

There is a significant gap in how nutrition is addressed in healthcare settings, which creates a critical “blind spot” in patient care.

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Apparently Only Doctors Can Help on Twitter?

Society for Participatory Medicine

In a piece entitled, “ Why Doctors Need to be on Twitter ,” Jack Turban, MD and Jessica Gold, MD seem to have transported back in time to a world where e-patients don’t exist. The piece argues that because Twitter is such a cesspool of misinformation and outright lies, more doctors need to get on the social network to help combat these ills.

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