Issue 059.

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Digital health research from Brian Dolan.

Welcome to E&O.

Last week I wrote about a secret JNJ acquisition and wondered if the VA confirmed that Google/Nest health project I wrote about last year. Next week I am open to ideas -- what should E&O dig into? Here's what's happening this week:

• The 4th of July holiday is coming up this weekend in the USA, so E&O is coming at you a bit earlier in the week.
• The FDA's digital health team is on a hiring spree. Is this prep for Pre-Cert? More here.
• Still thinking about Apple adding sleep tracking to the Watch. I think it is a fair bet that Apple moves deeper into sleep health, into quasi-diagnostic territory as they did with AFib. First, their heart rate sensor was just for exercising, remember. I could see their sleep efforts evolving quickly and moving into FDA-regulated territory for a huge,