Check out these must-read digital medicine articles and publications shared by Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Editor-in-Chief of via his Twitter feed (@EricTopol) during the month of August.

• When Machines Run Amok, Frank Rose, The Wall Street Journal, August 2017
• Artificial intelligence: The future is superintelligent, Stuart Russell, Nature, August 2017
• Incidence of Previously Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation Using Insertable Cardiac Monitors in a High-Risk Population, James Reiffel et al., JAMA Cardiology, August 2017
• Robert Koch Institut: towards digital epidemiology, Anita Makri, The Lancet, August 2017
• Artificial intelligence will create new kinds of work, the Economist, August 2017
• High Definition Medicine, Ali Torkamani et al., Cell, August 2017
• For robots to work with people, they must understand people, The Economist, August 2017
• Eliminating the Human, David Byrne, MIT Technology Review, August 2017
• Self-healing soft pneumatic robots, Seppe Terryn et al., Science Robotics, August 2017
• Alphabet acquires Senosis, a stealthy health app from serial entrepreneur Shwetak Patel, Jonah Comstock, MobihealthNews, August 15
• Newly granted Apple patent shows ways to turn an iPhone into a health sensor, Jonah Comstock, MobihealthNews, August 2017
• Diagnosing peri-implant disease using the tongue as a 24/7 detector, J Ritzer et al., Nature Communications, August 2017
• Flexible shape-memory scaffold for minimally invasive delivery of functional tissues, Miles Montgomery et al., Nature Materials, August 2017
• Shulkin says VA docs could start using Cerner by 2019, Arthur Allen, Politico, August 2017
• Recode Your Health, Ben Court, Men’s Health, August 2017
• The doctor will analyze you now, Brian Stauffer, Politico, August 2017
• An AI That Know the World Like Children Do, Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, June 2017
• A Smartphone App Reveals Erratic Diurnal Eating Patterns in Humans that Can Be Modulated for Health Benefits, Shubhroz Gill and Satchidananda Panda, Cell Metabolism, November 2015
• Want a Diagnosis Tomorrow, Not Next Year? Turn to AI, Megan Molteni, WIRED, August 2017
• Can a Crowdsourced AI Medical Diagnosis App Outperform Your Doctor?, Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American, August 2017
• Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues to Your Mental Health, Niraj Chokshi, The New York times, August 2017
• AMA, others strike long-term partnership with Human Diagnosis Project, Mike Miliard, MobiHealthNews, August 2017
• Inkjet-printed point-of-care immunoassay on a nanoscale polymer brush enables subpicomolar detection of analytes in blood, Daniel Joh et al., PNAS, August 2017
• Alexa, Understand Me, George Andres, MIT technology Review, August 2017
• How Alexa’s best skill could be as a home health-care assistant, Bertha Coombs, CNBC, August 2017
• The iPhone checkup: Apple patents system to use the front camera and sensors to monitor everything from a user’s emotional state to their blood pressure and body fat, Sage Lazzaro, DailyMail, August 2017
• Teenage team develops AI system to screen for diabetic retinopathy, Jeff Lagasse, MobiHealthNews, August 2017
• Andrew Ng’s Next Trick: Training a Million AI Experts, Will Knight, MIT Technology Review, August 2017
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, Jean Twenge, The Atlantic, September 2017
• Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression, Andrew Reece & Christopher Danforth, EPJ Data Science, August 2017
• Using millions of emoji occurences to learn any-domain representations for detecting sentiment, emotion and sarcasm, Bjarke Felbo et al., BioRxiv
• Amazon Wants to Judge Your Style, So We Judged Amazon, Geoffrey Fowler, The Wall Street Journal, August 2017
• Postmodern Prometheus, Haym Hirsh, Science, August 2017
• From Peas to Disease: Modifier Genes, Network Resilience, and the Genetics of Health, Jesse Riordan, AJHG, August 2017
• Technical Medicine: Designing Medical Technological Solutions for Improved Health Care, Marleen Groenier et al., Medical Science Educator, July 2017
• Deep Learning’s Next Frontier, Andrew Ng, Harvard Business Review, July 2017

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