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For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.

Digital medicine companies can incorporate and build on existing business models in tech and biomedicine to bring transformational new products to market and eventually reshape medicine.

New instruments are needed to realize the potential of quantitative and systematic imaging of living samples. But what would such a microscope look like?

Clear and logical regulatory guidelines on the process and requirements for approval of health apps and wearable sensors will be essential for the digital medicine sector to unleash its full potential.

One of molecular biology's intellectual leaders, Alex Rich made fundamental discoveries concerning nucleic acids and ribosomes, which served not only as a foundation for modern biology but also spurred the field of biotechnology.

In the coming years, patient phenotypes captured to enhance health and wellness will extend to human interactions with digital technology.

Healthcare priorities all too often ignore the importance of diagnostics for disease control and case management. The Ebola epidemic illustrates the folly of this attitude when few therapeutic or prophylactic interventions are available.

Digital medicine is poised to transform biomedical research, clinical practice and the commercial sector. Here we introduce a monthly column from R&D/venture creation firm PureTech tracking digital medicine's emergence.

Applying federalist principles to networked health record data could facilitate realization of the potential of shared health data.

Analyzing structural similarities between compounds derived from traditional oriental medicine and human metabolites is a systems-based approach that can help identify mechanisms of action and suggest approaches to reduce toxicity.