Podcasts by Faces of Digital Health
Faces of Digital Health is a podcast about digital health, exploring how different healthcare systems adopt technologies in healthcare. Its aim is to satisfy curiosity about different cultures, identify barriers to success in different countries and finding answers and advice for accelerating the success of digital health entrepreneurs.
Further podcasts by Tjasa Zajc
Podcast on the topic Wissenschaft
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Healthcare Digitalization in the Middle East 2/2: Ambition and the and Leadership Aspirations (Michele Tarnow) from 2022-02-24T22:45:17
This is the second episode about digital health transformation in the Middle East. I spoke with Michele Tarnow, a healthcare leader experienced in managing across multi-national geographies, organi...
ListenHealthcare Digitalization in the Middle East 1/2: What Contributes to Rapid Development? (Ziad Tabet) from 2022-02-17T21:11:34
In the next two episodes, we’ll dive into healthcare development a digitalization in the Middle East. You’re going to hear from two speakers based in Dubai. The speaker of today’s episode is Ziad T...
ListenEIT Health Germany Series 2/12: Improving Medication Prescribing With Digital Twins (ExactCure) from 2022-02-10T20:03:50
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world. Exactcure is a digital health startup from France addres...
ListenClubhouse, Digital Therapeutics and How Can We Speed Up Innovation Adoption in Healthcare (Jhonathan Bringas, Diana Van Stijn) from 2022-02-03T21:54
If you took part in the Clubhouse frenzy last year, you probably came across the Digital Health Channel and MedNet club. Digital Health Channel which currently has 6400 members, was among the key d...
ListenWhy Should We Care About Open AI in Healthcare? (Bart De Witte, Hippo AI Foundation) from 2022-01-27T21:54:47
The positive potentials of AI in healthcare are breathtaking. From smoother processes to more accurate care with fewer medical errors. But if we learned anything from the last 15 years of living wi...
ListenEiT Health Germany Series 1/12: Changing The Paradigm in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance (Alexander Belcredi) from 2022-01-20T15:30
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem related to the overuse of antibiotics and the lack of development of new ones. Many solutions are entering the market to address the issue: software sol...
ListenHow Do You Make Decisions in Healthcare? (Talya Miron-Shatz) from 2022-01-13T21:36:07
Have you ever had the experience of not knowing how to decide about your medical condition? Or when you went to the doctor’s and haven’t asked half of the things you remembered might be useful to k...
ListenWhat are the Current Technology Challenges and Priorities for Healthcare Providers? (Karl Kellner, Venkat Inumella, McKinsey&Company) from 2022-01-06T22:16:32
The field of healthcare digitalization is maturing and getting increasingly sophisticated, demanding healthcare and technology leaders to think more strategically than they were perhaps required a ...
ListenREFLECTIONS: A transocean podcast session (Joy Rios, Bianca Rose Phillips, Tjasa Zajc) from 2021-12-23T19:09:01
This is the last episode of Faces of digital health in 2021. Instead of an interview or a string of predictions for 2022, you will hear a reflection about the past year or two which I had with two ...
ListenVR: Promises and Challenges in 2021 (Rafael Grossman, Jennifer Esposito, Aaron Gani) from 2021-12-16T15:58
A lot has been done in the VR for healthcare space today, especially in the US. The therapeutic potential is undeniable. Over 5000 studies have shown the efficacy of VR for pain management, PTSD, e...
ListenSwitzerland, Diversity, and Meaningful Impact (Claire Murigande) from 2021-12-09T13:49:29
Claire Murigande is a Medical Affairs leader born in Burundi, lived in Kenya, and is now based in Switzerland. She is a biologist by background, passionate about empowering team members and bringin...
ListenHow Do Nursing And Cybersecurity Go Together? (Marylyn Harris) from 2021-12-02T22:20
Marylyn Harris, RN, MSN, MBA is a Cybersecurity Consultant, Speaker, Writer and Social Entrepreneur. Harris is a decorated (former) U.S. Army Nurse and Gulf War Veteran. She was honorably discharge...
ListenAustralian Healthcare, Co-design and AI (Marie Johnson) from 2021-11-26T16:29:58
Marie is the CEO of the Centre for Digital Business. She is a writer, commentator and international speaker on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, cyber, technology, ethics and the hum...
ListenNordics Series 4/4: Europe Can Learn About Collaboration (Anna Adelöf Kragh) from 2021-11-18T08:00
This is the last episode in a short series about healthcare digitalization in the Nordics. The discussion resolves around healthcare in the Nordics more broadly, data standards and interoperability...
ListenNordics Series 3/4: Finland and Secondary use of Data from 2021-11-12T09:10:40
Finland has well-established regulations and processes for the use of data for secondary purposes. This is overseen by the Social and Health Data Permit Authority Findata, which facilitates data pe...
ListenNordics Series 2/4: Norway, long and healthy life and data (Nard Schreurs) from 2021-11-05T19:01:54
This is the second episode about digital health in the Nordics. In the previous episode, you could listen about Denmark, how elderly care is managed there and how EHRs have been in place for years ...
ListenNordics Series 1/4: Denmark, Elderly Care and 34 Years of Access to Doctor Notes (Erik Jylling) from 2021-10-29T18:33:56
This is the first out of four episodes about digital health and healthcare in the Nordics. In the next few weeks, you will hear about Denmark, Norway, Finland, and a broader regional overview. Not ...
ListenBetween Malta and UK: A Radiologists's View (Ryan Grech) from 2021-10-24T08:30
A few years ago Stefan Buttigieg, a digital health evangelist from Malta said that Malta is a great testbed for digital health startups interested in entering Europe (https://www.facesofdigitalheal...
ListenIsrael: How are the Government, Hospitals and HMOs working together? from 2021-10-15T17:59:44
End of August Days of eHealth were organised as part of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of EU. In four days a lot of insight was offered about healthcare digitalization in Catalonia, German...
ListenWhy Are Adolescents and Young Adults Special Patients? (Ivett Jakab) from 2021-10-07T15:52
From the 26th and 29th of October, I will be co-hosting the EPF Congress 2021, brought to you by the European Patients’ Forum. This year’s topic is the digital transformation of healthcare. Speaker...
ListenGemany: Hospital Digitalization Initiatives from 2021-10-01T15:10:09
Slovenia is currently presiding the council of EU until 2022. In the first week of September, the members of the Slovenian health tech ecosystem organized a conference about examples of good practi...
ListenHow Can We Increase Gender Diversity in the PE/VC space? (Yahel Halamish) from 2021-09-23T20:42:30
Nina Capital, is a specialized venture capital firm investing in early stage startups at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Level 20 is a not for profit organisation founded in 2015 by ...
ListenCatalonia: Betting on Open Standards (Pol Perez Sust) from 2021-09-16T19:46:29
If we look at nationwide successful digitalization projects, we often hear about Estonia, Israel, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, or Israel. All these countries have less than 10 million people. It is ...
ListenTaiwan: The State of Digitalization, AI and What Went Wrong With COVID? (Yu Chuan Jack Li) from 2021-09-09T23:23
Taiwan spends only 6.4% of it’s GDP for healthcare, but has high satisfaction rates with healthcare, and is also very digitalized. In this episode, a closer look into healthcare in Taiwan is provid...
ListenCanada: How Can Hospital Networks Innovate? (Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, Danina Kapetanovi?) from 2021-09-03T17:11
After a summer of discussions about medication safety, medication errors, the role of AI in prescribing decision support, precision medicine, and drug development, we’re moving to explore healthcar...
ListenHow Is AI Improving Medication Discovery and Management? (Marinka Zitnik) from 2021-08-28T16:36:30
Dr. Marinka Žitnik is a computer scientist from Harvard, studying applied machine learning with a focus on challenges brought forward by data in science, medicine, and health. A large aspect of her...
ListenWhy Patient Safety is Like Global Warming (Abdulelah Alhawsawi) from 2021-08-22T20:08
According to WHO the occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe care is likely one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability in the world. Patient harm is caused by several healthcare issue...
ListenAn Insight in Global Medication Safety Approaches (Lea Dias) from 2021-08-12T20:00
Lea Dias is a former Medication Safety Pharmacist at Perth Children’s Hospital, now the Founder and CEO of Quaefacta. In 2013, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust enabled her to go on a six-week t...
ListenWhy Aren't Polypills Used and What Are The Limits Of Pharmacogenomics? (John Horn) from 2021-07-30T20:53:30
Do you know what clinical pharmacists do? For one thing, clinical pharmacists optimize patient’s medications. This can have a big impact on improving patient outcomes and patient quality of life. I...
ListenWhy Do Doctors Skip Medication Interaction Alerts? (David W. Bates) from 2021-07-20T10:00
Being a doctor can be very gratifying when a life is saved or a patient is cured. However, the number of jobs and skills physicians need to master is increasing with the advancement of technology a...
ListenHow Do Nurses See Medication Administration Challenges? (Martina Viduka) from 2021-07-15T18:00
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare. They’re the closest to the patient, they offer support to them and the doctors. Their mission is to make patients feel better and recover as fast as possible....
ListenHow Demanding Is Management of Psychiatric Disorders? (Roni Shiloh) from 2021-07-09T09:00
With mental health being at the forefront of our attention in 2020, next to COVID, have you ever wondered, how the work of a psychiatrist looks like? Many clinicians fear psychiatric drugs, but Ron...
ListenF138 (OVER)DOSE Part 2 - after documentary expert panel discussion from 2021-07-05T08:55
This is a panel discussion that happened after the premiere of the documentary (OVER)DOSE - How can we prevent medication errors? which aired on 29 June. You can listen to the adapted audio-only ve...
ListenF137 (OVER)DOSE Part 1 - documentary adapted for radio from 2021-07-02T12:17
This is a short documentary about medication-related patient safety. The documentary explores and offers an overview of the current challenges and technical solutions related to medication safety t...
ListenF136 Do You Understand the Psychology of Chronic Disease? (David Kliff, The Diabetic Investor) from 2021-06-17T00:00
David Kliff is the author and publisher of the Diabetic Investor eNewsletter, former investment advisor and as a person living with diabetes. As the author and publisher of the Diabetic Investor eN...
ListenF135 Why is Medication Price Transparency in the US Complicated and Problematic? (Carm Huntress) from 2021-06-10T19:00
Because US healthcare is private and operates by the rules of the free market, prices for services and medications can differ substantially. Solutions such as GoodRx and Amazon Pharmacy are address...
ListenF134 What Do You Know About SPACs in Healthcare? (mHealth Israel episode) from 2021-06-04T09:22
Funding in technologies, especially software in healthcare, has been booming in the last few years. Recently, SPACs - special purpose acquisition companies have gained in popularity. SPACs are not ...
ListenF133 How Can You Make Cancer Care Children-Friendly? (Simone Mozzilli, Liliane Dubois, Beaba) from 2021-05-28T13:35
Simone Lehwess Mozzilli and Liliane Dübois both had cancer in their past. Liliane as a child, Simone as an adult. They are both an integral part of the Brazilian non-profit Beaba. Beaba offers supp...
ListenTrailer 1: (OVER)DOSE - How Can We Prevent Medication Errors? from 2021-05-21T09:15
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world. Globally, the cost associated with medication errors has ...
ListenF132 What's The State of Cybersecurity In Healthcare? (Lee Kim) from 2021-05-15T01:30
Phishing, Whaling, and exposure of patient data are a rising occurrence of the increasingly digitalized healthcare systems. 2020 saw more data breaches than previous years. What are the basics to k...
ListenF131 How Can We Better Measure Pain? (Sara E. Berger, IBM) from 2021-05-06T20:31
How would you rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10? Pain is a very subjective matter and there’s plenty of research done and in progress to understand it better. In this episode Sara E. Berger, a r...
ListenF130 How Can We Optimize the Use of Antibiotics? (Oliver Schacht, OpGen) from 2021-04-29T18:00
It is absolutely scary to get an infection and run out of options to treat it. Broadly speaking, existing antibiotics are and are going to keep losing their effectiveness, if antibiotics and antimi...
ListenF129 What Is the State of Digital Health Law? (Bianca Rose Phillips) from 2021-04-23T16:03
Bianca Rose Phillips is a Global Digital Health Law theorist from Australia, and the founder of a Digital Health Think Tank. In her legal work, she is focused mostly on Australia and the USA. Many ...
ListenF128 What Are We Missing About AI Development In Healthcare? (Casey Ross) from 2021-04-15T22:47
Casey Ross is an investigative reporter for STAT News, where he covers AI development in healthcare and medicine. Last year he analyzed over 160 AI product market approval submissions cleared by th...
ListenF127 Why Do People Go Bankrupt Due to Medical Costs in the US? (Ric Sinclair) from 2021-04-08T20:00
Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy in the US cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. It’s understandable since if you get sick, you might lose a job and your...
ListenF126 How is Tradition Hindering Health Literacy in Kenya, Tanzania and Malaysia? (Shamala Hinrichsen, Mariatheresa Samson Kaduschi) from 2021-04-01T22:20
This episode explores health literacy improvement and women empowerment in Malaysia, Kenya and Tanzania. You are going to hear from two speakers: Shamala S. Hinrichsen, the CEO of Hanai, a compan...
ListenF125 Amazon in Healthcare, AI Related Disparities and the Microbiome Challenges (Erin Brodwin) from 2021-03-25T21:10
This episode explores Amazon’s efforts in healthcare, the challenges of increasing transparency in AI development in healthcare, and a little bit about the state of turning microbiome research into...
ListenF124 AgeTech 4/4: How would you choose to die? (Ryan Van Wert, Vynca) from 2021-03-18T21:03
In January 2021 a jury in Montana delivered what is believed to be the first verdict in a wrongful life case, awarding over $400,000 compensation for medical and emotional costs due to the unwanted...
ListenF123 AgeTech Series 3/4: Boosting Empathy In Geriatric Care (Martina Viduka, Advosense) from 2021-03-11T20:57
While discussions about the end of life are not easy, the pandemic opened up space for us to talk more openly about dying and the best possible care in the last days of our lives. This is the thir...
ListenF122 AgeTech Series 2/4: Algorithm-based Matchmaking Of The Elderly And Caregivers (Anja Silbauer) from 2021-03-05T15:09:46
As a part of the currently running series about AgeTech, today’s episode is focused on elderly care and how to best match caregivers and the elderly. You are going to hear from an Austrian entrepre...
ListenF 121 AgeTech Series 1: Healthcare and technology in the oldest population in the world - Japan from 2021-02-26T17:44:42
This is the first episode about AgeTech and rethinking the last years of our lives. Over 2.3 million people died due to COVID by February 2021. These were mostly older people. Many of them died alo...
ListenF 121 AgeTech Series 1/4: Healthcare and technology in the oldest population in the world - Japan from 2021-02-26T17:44:42
This is the first episode about AgeTech and rethinking the last years of our lives. Over 2.3 million people died due to COVID by February 2021. These were mostly older people. Many of them died alo...
ListenF120 A glimpse into Japan and how to introduce AI to clinicians (Adrian Sossna) from 2021-02-19T20:03:18
Hacarus is a Japanese company developing AI Solutions for Manufacturing and Medical Industries. Their Salus platform for medical and life sciences uses Medical imaging data such as CT & MRI scans, ...
ListenF119 How are technologies improving global public health (Dr. Padmini Murthy) from 2021-02-11T23:31:50
Book discussion: Technology and Global Public Health
Dr. Padmini (Mini) Murthy - Professor and Global Health Director at New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice. Dr. Mu...
F118 Healthcare is Diverse. Why Is Healthtech Investing Not? (Dr. Fiona Pathiraja) from 2021-02-04T21:37
Diversity is an increasingly debated topic in startup investments, since founders of under-represented backgrounds may it be gender, race, age, and more too often experience inequality in opportuni...
ListenF117 How Music Beats Got a Breakthrough Device FDA Designation (Brian Harris, MedRythms) from 2021-01-29T00:17:54
Music can change our mood, energize ur, make us feel invincible. It goes beyond that: it can heal.
MedRythms is a digital therapeutics company building direct stimulation solutions that use cl...
F117 How Music Beats Got a Breakthrough Device FDA Designation (Brian Harris, MedRythms) from 2021-01-28T22:17
Music can change our mood, energize ur, make us feel invincible. It goes beyond that: it can heal. MedRythms is a digital therapeutics company building direct stimulation solutions that use clinica...
ListenF117 How Music Beats Got a Breakthrough Device FDA Designation (Brian Harris, MedRythms) from 2021-01-28T22:17
Music can change our mood, energize ur, make us feel invincible. It goes beyond that: it can heal. MedRythms is a digital therapeutics company building direct stimulation solutions that use clinica...
ListenF116 Medication Management Goes Beyond Pill Reminders. Patients Want Transparency. (Jennifer Butler) from 2021-01-22T22:15:05
Medication management is a complicated, expensive, and complex healthcare problem. Because taking medications is only a small part of patient’s lives, taking them correctly can be complicated and b...
ListenF115 Primary care digitalisation in New Zealand, Australia and the USA (Dimitri Varsamis) from 2021-01-14T23:02
Dr. Dimitri Varsamis is Senior Policy Lead for digital primary care at NHS England. End of 2020 he published a report titled Incentives and levers for digitizing and integrating primary care in New...
ListenF114 “My hope is we will mispronounce COVID in ten years” (John Nosta) from 2021-01-07T23:35
2021 is finally here, and as with any new year, we wish this one to be better than the previous one. 2020 sure changed the perspective of what that actually means. I am your host Tjaša Zajc and for...
ListenF 113 Predictions about 2021 (and beyond) by digital health experts from the US, Israel, Mexico, Chile, UK, Italy and South Korea from 2020-12-27T20:36:37
Recap: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digital-health-2021-predictions In this last episode of 2020, we will reflect on the year and look into the future with some of the experts and opinion lea...
ListenF112 How is regenerative medicine disrupting the MedTech industry (Frank Barry) from 2020-12-18T18:39:46
Someday in the future, we will hopefully see 3D printed tissues and organs. To see where we are today, I spoke with prof. Frank Berry - Senior Scientist at the UHN Arthritis Programme at the Krembi...
ListenF111 The full circle in telemedicine - adding home delivery of medications and at-home diagnostics ( Sid Viswanathan, Truepill) from 2020-12-11T18:00
The U.S. prescription drug market is worth $400 billion. Companies such as GoodRx, RxSaver and now Amazon Pharmacy are starting to bring pricing transparency. Online pharmacy services are projected...
ListenF110 "Patient records on the blockchain are still a dream" (Robert Miller) from 2020-12-04T19:26
In the last two years, the hype around blockchain settled down, and now projects can focus more on development rather than managing attention. Many projects have gone from an idea to a pilot progra...
Listen109 How digitally healthy is New Zealand? (Scott Arrol) from 2020-11-27T14:09:44
When this discussion was recorded on 20th November, New Zealand, which has 4.9 million people, only had 50 reported cases of COVID in the whole country. The reason the country is successful in cont...
ListenF108 What's the value of telehealth consultations for doctors and patients? (Julian Flannery) from 2020-11-20T13:34:39
In this episode, you will hear a discussion with Julian Flannery - the CEO of. Summus Global. Summus global provides access to specialists and physicians from across the world. The company has a ne...
ListenF107 AI driven health insurance (Rajeev Ronanki, Anthem) from 2020-11-13T22:32:55
Rajeev Ronanki is Chief Digital Officer at Anthem, which is striving to become a digital AI-first enterprise. In September Anthem launched a digital incubator where companies can test their solutio...
ListenF106 VRx book discussion: What 5000 studies taught us about the healing power of VR? (Dr. Brennan Spiegel) from 2020-11-06T22:36:24
We are in the middle of an unprecedented time of anxiety, depression and worries because of the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s affecting people’s jobs, a sense of security, and relative predicta...
ListenAustralia: The state of healthcare digitalization (Louise Schaper, AIDH) from 2020-10-31T16:43
Australia was in the global digital health-related news in 2018 of the national EHR project called My Health Record. The idea behind the project was to digitize the medical records of all the peopl...
ListenAustralia: The state of healthcare digitalization (Louise Schaper, AIDH) from 2020-10-31T16:43
Australia was in the global digital health-related news in 2018 of the national EHR project called My Health Record. The idea behind the project was to digitize the medical records of all the peopl...
ListenF104 Digital health in Spain and what is the concept of a liquid hospital? (Cesar Morcillo Serra) from 2020-10-24T19:17:38
Spain has a universal healthcare system, where anyone that pays social security contributions is eligible for healthcare. From the digitalization perspective, Spain does not have a national institu...
ListenF103 How are smart garments making remote patient monitoring comfortable? (Laurent Vandebrouck, Chronolife) from 2020-10-16T22:03:13
Chronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromor...
ListenF102 How are connected health devices becoming increasingly medically relevant (Mathieu Letombe, Withings) from 2020-10-09T13:12:59
Do you remember the first connected scale? It came to the market in 2009 by a French company called Withings. By today the company created a number of connected health devices and is increasing its...
ListenF101 A collection of thoughts about digital health from around the world from 2020-10-03T22:55
This episode is a collection of thoughts giving you a glimpse into the global digital health market. Leave a rating or a review: https://lovethepodcast.com/facesofdigitalhealth Speakers: Dr. Danie...
ListenF100 Digital health in South America 4/4: Venezuela: “Many hospitals went from digital back to paper” (Luis Santiago, Pegasi) from 2020-09-26T17:52:59
This is the 4th part of a short series about healthcare and digital health in South America. After presenting Brazil, Colombian and Argentina, Luis Santiago talks about Venezuela and Chile.
ListenF099 Digital health in South America 3/4: Brazil: “Our goal is to bring specialised cancer management EHR to underserved areas of the world” (Paulo F. B. de Gusmão, OTAWA Health) from 2020-09-18T21:49:13
This is the third episode of the short series about digital health in South America. In the previous episodes you could listen to Adrian Turjanski from an Argentinian genomics company there called ...
ListenF098 Digital Health in South America 2/4: Colombia: “Doctors normally have two or three jobs” (Javier Cardona, 1Doc3) from 2020-09-10T21:34:33
When Googling the Colombian healthcare system, there’s mostly praise about how good it is! The World Health Organization ranked Colombia’s healthcare system as number 22 in a review of 191 countrie...
ListenF097 Digital health in South America 1/4: “Only 0.1% of the population has been sequenced so far” (Adrian Turjanski, Bitgenia, Argentina) from 2020-09-04T11:45:20
After a special series about digital health in Asia and Africa covered in 2019, the upcoming four episodes will present speakers from South America. A shoutout goes to Unity Stoakes and Jennifer Ha...
ListenF096 Why can we be optimistic about the vaccine development for COVID-19? (Glen de Vries, Medidata) from 2020-08-28T06:01:09
Why are clinical trials complicated and how is technology from platforms to AI helping accelerate trial development and data analysis.
ListenHow did Germany accelerate the speed of the digitization of healthcare? (Henrik Matthies, Maike Henningsen, Maren Lesche) from 2020-08-21T06:00
Germany is one of the European countries with higher healthcare expenditures. 11% of GDP goes to healthcare compared to the 9.6% European average. Patients can be covered under public health insura...
ListenF094 How can we simplify regulation of digital health apps? (Liz Ashall Payne, ORCHA) from 2020-08-14T19:18:25
There are well over 300.000 digital health apps on the market. However, only a third of them have been updated in the last 18 months, says Liz Ashal Payne - CEO and Founder of ORCHA - a UK based or...
ListenF093 How does a doctor become a VC? (Benedict Evans) from 2020-08-07T05:35:18
Despite enjoying clinical practice, Benedict Evans still came to a point where he felt he is not passionate enough about what he does, and as a surgeon, he realized he enjoys talking to patients mo...
ListenF092 How can blockchain bring back autonomy to the physician-patient relationship? (Leah Houston, HPEC) from 2020-07-30T19:08:37
Leah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012 and now designed a solution that would empower doctors, make their credentialing easier which would s...
ListenF090 Nurses 4/4: All the aspects of community care (Mary Lou Ackerman, Canada) from 2020-07-23T13:28:12
This is the fourth episode in the short series about nurses who moved to entrepreneurship. Mary Lou Ackerman is Vice President of Innovation and Digital Health with SE Health. Mary Lou is a found...
ListenF089 Nurses 3/4: “If you leave nurses out of your innovation process, you’re making a mistake” (Karmi Soder, Israel) from 2020-07-16T22:45:29
This is a third discussion in the short series about nurses going into entrepreneurship. Karmi Soder started working as a pediatric clinical care nurse in 1992. Today she is a skilled communicator ...
ListenF088 Nurses 2/4: Making healthcare holistic (Sherezade Ruano, UK) from 2020-07-10T11:41:29
Sherezade Ruano is an Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse at Imperial College NHS Trust, Founder of RhythmiaBreath Medical Well-being programme and Co-Founder, CEO of RB Hub Digital Therapeutics. Passionat...
ListenF087 Nurses 1/4: Do you know what nurses do? (Shawna Butler, USA) from 2020-07-02T19:52
2020 is the year of the nurse and the midwife. What do nurses actually do and why are they still a hidden innovation treasure in healthcare? In this series consisting of discussions with nurse inn...
ListenF086 TikTok 2/2: Interested in weird medical facts? (Karan Raj) from 2020-06-26T18:50:30
Karan Raj is a "veteran" in online education. He founded TheOSCEstation - an online medical education website with videos explaining different medical topics. TheOSCEstation primarily targets medic...
ListenF085 Tik tok 1/2: #MedicineExplained - doctors sharing medical knowledge in a whole new format (Amanda d'Almeida, Dan Villavecer) from 2020-06-19T20:03:35
There are three “laws” for successful TikTok posts: make people laugh, tell a personal story people can empathize with, or teach people something. Doctors use the platform to talk about their caree...
ListenF084 Doctors in digital health 4/4: Mediquo: Whatsapp for healthcare (Guillem Serra) from 2020-06-12T12:57:08
This is the fourth and final episode of a short series of discussions with doctors that moved from full-time clinical practice to work in digital health. Guillem Serra is a serial entrepreneur comi...
ListenF083 Doctors in digital health 3/4: Connecting specialists and primary care doctors for faster, better patient care (Owain Rhys Hughes) from 2020-06-05T06:09:30
This is the third discussion in a short series about doctors who left clinical practice to work as entrepreneurs in digital health. In the previous episodes, Daniel Kraft talked about a new idea fo...
ListenF082 Doctors in digital health series 2/4: Managing task management in healthcare - “It’s about the patient, not paperwork” (Michael Docktor) from 2020-05-29T14:03:48
This is a second episode from the short series about why doctors leave clinical practice to work in digital health. GI pediatric specialist Michael Docktor was, until recently, one of the driving f...
ListenF081 Doctors in digital health series 1/4: The Digitome, Digital Health for COVID-19 and a new approach to medication adherence (Daniel Kraft) from 2020-05-22T00:18
This is the first part of a special 4 episode series about doctors who left full-time clinical practice to develop new solutions for healthcare improvement. As Faces of digital health is a podcast...
ListenF080 How far are we with digitising mental health support? (Christopher Molaro) from 2020-05-15T11:45:46
On April 15th this year a panel of experts published a position paper online in the Lancet Psychiatry, where they outlined a proposed government response to curb the long-term "profound" and "perva...
ListenS079 Women's health and the dream but real healthcare setting (Carolyn Witte) from 2020-05-08T20:58:49
Healthcare is anything but relaxing once you're a patient. But what if you could look forward to your appointments as you look forward to a wellness visit? This was among the guidelines designers ...
ListenS078 DTx series 5/5: Diabetes clinical trials on Whatsapp? (Abhishek Shah) from 2020-05-01T05:02
Wellthy is one of Asia's leading digital therapeutics companies that inspires and enables patients to prevent, reverse and control chronic diseases. It works with pharmaceutical, medical devices co...
ListenF077 DTx series 4/5: Want to get rid of chronic pain? (Mark Liber, Kaia Health) from 2020-04-24T21:14:03
In any given year, 12% to 14% of the adult population in the US will visit their physician for back pain. In the UK muscosceletal conditions (MSK) affect 1 in 4 of the adult population. MSK are ver...
ListenF076 DTx series 3/5: Are you drinking? (Jamie Moore) from 2020-04-17T23:09:48
According to WHO, 3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol. These deaths represent 5.3 % of all deaths. Australian organization Hello Sunday Morning has been tackling alcohol ...
ListenF75: Healthcare innovation financing in times of COVID-19 (Part 2/2) from 2020-04-11T07:41
On April 9th, Slovenian health tech community and Faces of digital health organised a webinar about healthcare innovation funding in times of COVID-19. We asked four experts from Slovenia, Italy, G...
ListenF074 Healthcare innovation financing in times of COVID19 (Part 1/2) from 2020-04-11T07:39:17
On April 9th, Slovenian health tech community and Faces of digital health organised a webinar about healthcare innovation funding in times of COVID-19. We asked four experts from Slovenia, Italy, G...
ListenF073 DTx series 2/5: What's Pharma got to do with digital therapeutics? (Paul Simms) from 2020-04-03T21:32:31
Paul is the CEO and Founder of Eyeforpharma - international hub connecting senior-level pharma executives, patient groups and other health stakeholders to exchange ideas and observe shifting trend...
ListenF072 DTx series 1/5: How do DTx differ from medications or digital health apps? (Jessica Shull) from 2020-03-28T11:55:36
Digital therapeutics (DTx) are clinically validated digital solutions with proven positive effects on disease management and outcomes. in this episode, Jessica Shull, European Lead for the Digital ...
ListenF071 Why is St. Louis a hidden digital health ecosystem gem in the US and the latest about digital health efforts for COVID-19 from 2020-03-20T21:04:18
When Europe became the new epicentre of the COVID-19 spread, and with the steady rise of infected in the US, tech companies offered their knowledge to curb the pandemic: COVID-19 triage and self-as...
ListenF070 Why is getting sick in the US financially toxic for many people? (Christopher T. Robertson) from 2020-03-13T09:33:28
As of 2017 healthcare is the leading category of the 78,5 billion in consumer debt collected each year, which is more than 40 times the size of credit card debt. While the number of uninsured is re...
ListenF069 What else is there to learn about pitching digital health solutions? (Beth Susanne) from 2020-03-06T22:47:20
"Each investor sees about 1200 pitch decks per year, meets 500 founders, and invests in 10 companies. So when preparing for your pitch, you need to be aware that investors are looking for reasons t...
ListenF068 The power of patients 4/4: What skills do you need as a patient? (Grace Cordovano) from 2020-02-28T13:54:39
Grace Cordovano is an expert healthcare navigating solutionist and award winning, board-certified patient advocate specializing in the oncology space. She is the founder of Enlightening Results and...
ListenF067 The power of patients 3/4: How can patients influence policy? (Bettina Ryll) from 2020-02-21T20:31:15
Clinical advocacy has many different shapes. In the US, says Dr. Bettina Ryll, patient advocates work as patient’s navigators in the healthcare system. In Europe, they have a more activist/policy i...
ListenF066 The power of patients 2/4: Patients need more than medical treatment (Marina Borukhovich) from 2020-02-14T10:03:08
In the second episode of the short series about the patient perspective of healthcare Marina Borukhovich, born in Belarus, raised in US and living for the past 8 years in Netherlands and Germany sh...
ListenF065 The power of patients 1/4: What do you do, when the system gives up on you? (Roi Shternin) from 2020-02-07T23:23:30
Roi Shternin had medical ambitions while he was still a student. Before he turned 20 however, his physical health started deteriorating to the point where he couldn’t get up from his bed. He visite...
ListenF064 Fighting loneliness in older people with robots (Richard Marshall) from 2020-01-30T23:38:13
Social isolation and loneliness are linked to several health problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheime...
ListenF063 How to build a community in healthcare? (Aline Noizet) from 2020-01-25T09:35:14
Building communities is time-consuming and demands special soft skills. Aline Noizet is a digital health connector with rich experiences of building and getting to know communities in digital healt...
ListenF062 GDPR, MDR, and what you can do about you medical data (Jovan Stevovic) from 2020-01-17T23:19:10
In May 2020, Medical Device Regulation goes into effect. Digital health companies providing software intended for medical use will need to comply with new requirements. According to Jovan Stevović,...
ListenF061 Why do so many data breaches and cyber attacks happen in healthcare? (Chris Bowen) from 2020-01-09T22:20:21
According to Clearwater cyberIntelligence Institute, one of the key issues in data breaches are user authentication deficiencies. These include password strength requirements, single sign-on contro...
ListenF60 2020: Redefined experience, further progress of DTx and new expectation about investments, quantum computing from 2019-12-21T00:22:39
Nine opinion leaders in digital health - John Nosta, Rafael Grossmann, Aline Noizet, Brian de Francesca, Irma Rastagayeva, Eugene Borukhovich, Maneesh Juneja and Nana bit Avragim and Levi Shapiro -...
ListenF059 Digital health in Africa 4/4: Doctor's appointments made easy in South Africa (Sheraan Amod) from 2019-12-13T22:25:24
South Africa is a restless country with Race and ethnicity still causing a lot of tension in the society. On the healthcare side, there are only 0.9 doctors per 1000 people in the country. Out of ...
ListenF058 Digital health in Africa 3/4: Bringing Babylon to Rwanda (Patrick Singa Muhoza) from 2019-12-09T10:24:01
In 2016, the UK based company Babylon Health, radically transforming access to primary care in the NHS in the UK, opened a subsidiary in Rwanda. The Rwandan version ob Babylon is called Babyl, and ...
ListenF057 Digital health in Africa 2/4: Telemedicine can't save healthcare in Nigeria (Ocoche Ubenyi) from 2019-11-30T22:11:18
As of 2016, Nigeria was Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation. By 2050, Nigeria is expected to be one of the ten largest economies in the world. Healthcare wise, the country is in dire ...
ListenF056 Digital health in Africa 1/4: Spreading health information in Tanzania (Mariatheresa Samson Kadushi) from 2019-11-21T21:57:28
Africa has 54 countries, that differ a lot in terms of their quality of care, political situation, and innovation. This short series explores healthcare in 4 African countries: - the most populous ...
ListenF055 What do pink socks have to do with digital health? (Nick Adkins) from 2019-11-11T09:06:39
If you go to digital health conferences, you might have noticed people wearing pink socks. Or a guy with a long beard and a kilt caught your eye. That was Nick Adkins - the Co-Founder of Pinksocks ...
ListenF054 What on Earth is up with space health? (Ilaria Cinelli) from 2019-11-03T22:40:24
Less than 600 people traveled to space by today. What do we know about space health so far, and why does it matter for the broader population? A discussion with Ilaria Cinelli - a biomedical engine...
ListenF053 How well do you sleep? (Richard Jacobs) from 2019-10-25T09:34:17
What are the basics of sleep hygiene, the importance of sleep and harm lack of sleep causes to our health? Richard Jacobs is the host of Future Tech Podcast and Future Tech Health Podcast. By now, ...
ListenF052 AI in healthcare 6/6: What if AI gets out of control? (Bart De Witte) from 2019-10-18T12:32:07
The sixth and final episode of a short series about AI in healthcare features Bart de Witte and a discussion about data privacy, the future of AI models in healthcare and the issue of a potentially...
ListenF051 AI in healthcare 5/6: Decision support for stroke therapy (Michelle Livne, Vince Madai) from 2019-10-13T22:08:04
AI models in the field of stroke with Vince Madai and Michelle Livne from Charite hospital in Berlin, who work on predictive models for decision support systems for the treatment of strokes. Vince ...
ListenF050 AI in healthcare 4/6: The power of voice (Bill Rogers) from 2019-10-04T17:55
Voice applications in healthcare are used in telemedicine, for remote patient monitoring, clinical trials, and more. Bill Rogers, CEO of Orbita - a leading provider of conversational AI for healthc...
ListenF049 AI in healthcare 3/6: Impacts in diabetes (Tadej Battelino) from 2019-09-27T08:25:43
In 2016 FDA approved the so-called artificial pancreas - Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G system (Medtronic) a hybrid closed-looped system for glucose measurement and insulin delivery. A lot of companies a...
ListenF048 AI in healthcare 2/6: Radiology disrupted? (Woojin Kim) from 2019-09-19T22:40:42
The idea that AI will replace radiologists comes from the fact that today’s AI models models are very good at pattern recognition. But in reality, the “rich data” coming from radiologists is in the...
ListenF047 AI in healthcare 1/6: Giving patients their lives back from 2019-09-11T19:06:17
Short series about AI in healthcare: 1 - the potential impact of AI on patients When reading about how digital health and AI are improving disease management, waiting times in decision making healt...
ListenF046 Nurses are innovators - why they should be more involved in solution design (Shawna Butler) from 2019-08-30T12:49:04
No matter which country you go, the predictions about the healthcare workforce estimate that we will encounter significant shortages of doctors in the future. It’s less often heard that the predict...
ListenF045 Digital Health in Asia 5/5: Telemedicine is illegal in South Korea (Ogan Gurel) from 2019-08-22T21:26:47
South Korea is famous for many things - worldwide, the Republic of Korea has by far the highest robot density in the manufacturing industry, the third-largest market for virtual currency, behind th...
ListenF044 Digital Health in Asia 4/5: Singapore and lucid dreaming (Tony Estrella) from 2019-08-15T20:14:19
Singapore, also known as Asia for beginners, is a 5.6 million people country, offering an encouraging environment to tech companies and expats. The government in Singapore is promoting IT adoption ...
ListenF043 Digital Health in Asia 3/5: India&reinvention of medical education with Project ECHO (Sunil Anand, Kartik Dhar) from 2019-08-08T21:58:31
If anyone, India is in dire need to increase access to quality care. According to WHO, the density of doctors of all types (allopathic, ayurvedic, unani and homeopathic) in 2001 was 8 doctors per 1...
ListenF042 Digital health in Asia 2/5: What drives the incredible pace of development in China? (Julie Wang) from 2019-08-01T21:04:20
China’s population is larger than the population of the US and Europe combined. The country is becoming the leader in AI development. The enabling factor for China’s rapid advancement in AI is that...
ListenF041 Digital health in Asia 1/5: An overview (Julien de Salaberry) from 2019-07-25T22:14:31
Asia is the second-largest digital health ecosystem in the world. 2018 ended with a record-breaking 6.8 billion US dollars invested. According to IBC Asia, the digital health market is expected to ...
ListenF040 Slovenia (Part 1): What to learn from Slovenia about drug regulation? from 2019-07-11T16:09:24
This episode is the first part of a two-part series about healthcare in Slovenia. Given that drug prices are a consistently controversial topic in the US healthcare system, the first part of the se...
ListenF040 Slovenia (Part 2): How strong is the digital health community? from 2019-07-11T16:07:06
This is the second part of a two-part series about healthcare in Slovenia. Slovenia is a country of 2 million people, with a universal healthcare system, where electronic medical cards have been in...
ListenF039 Patient behavior: what to consider when designing solutions? (Claire Kamoun) from 2019-06-28T08:00:35
Patients are getting increasingly engaged in their treatments, becoming the decisionmakers not just recipients of care. But to design a successful solution for patient support with high user retent...
ListenComing soon: Digital health in Asia series from 2019-06-19T04:48:18
Asia is the 2nd largest digital health ecosystem in the world. Investments in the sector totaled 6.3 billion in 2018. 5 Faces of digital health episodes are going to be published in July, offering ...
ListenF038 What do you know about the African healthcare market? (Moka Lantum) from 2019-05-31T12:48:10
Developing countries are often seen as ideal test hubs for innovation: there's no existing infrastructure to disrupt, the regulation permits a faster speed of adoption. However, like any market, Af...
ListenF037 G4A and the evolution of the digital health ecosystem (Eugene Barukhovich, G4A) from 2019-05-17T05:36:36
G4A, formerly known as Grants4Apps is probably the most famous digital health accelerator inside a Pharma conglomerate. For a few years, the program was designed to support a handful of startups by...
ListenF036 How is AI decoding aging? (Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine) from 2019-05-03T11:00:19
Longevity, eternal youth or even immortality have been an aspiration in religion and culture throughout history. Today, people adopt all sorts of approaches to increase their wellbeing, delay aging...
ListenF035 Estonia: To which extent does the digital infrastructure support healthcare? (Hannalore Taal) from 2019-04-19T07:39:58
Estonia has only 1,3 million people but is famous worldwide for its digital governance. If you want, you can even become an Estonian electronic resident and run your business from Estonia, regardle...
ListenDigital Health in Japan, China, Israel, Dubai, Germany and Bolivia from 2019-04-15T18:40:39
This short recording offers a snippet of thoughts about healthcare China, Japan, Germany, Dubai, Israel, Japan, and Bolivia.
ListenF034 How are AI and wearables disrupting clinical trials? (Dr. Sam Volchenboum, University of Chicago) from 2019-04-05T19:31:40
ClinicalTrials.gov currently lists 302,091 clinical studies in the US. It is impossible for patients and their doctors to be aware of all clinical trials an individual might be eligible for. While ...
ListenF033 Blockchain in Healthcare - a new book guide (David Metcalf, Alex Cahana, Editors) from 2019-03-22T10:32:48
Anyone who wishes to learn about blockchain in general or specifically in healthcare can get overwhelmed by the number of results offered by a Google search. Awareness of the difficulty of finding ...
ListenF032 Tech advancements in surgery, VR and the healthcare crisis in Venezuela (Rafael Grossmann) from 2019-03-08T12:45:20
Every person is unique and we all differ in our looks, but have you ever wondered, how much do people differ on the inside? This is something surgeons are most familiar with. Rafael Grossmann is kn...
ListenF031 Hacking global health through hackathons (Annie Lamontagne, Hacking Health) from 2019-02-22T11:39:06
Hackathons have by today become a popular approach for bringing people with various backgrounds in the same room, offering them a concentrated time, usually during a weekend, to come up with innova...
ListenF030 What role does HIMSS play in the global healthcare transformation? (Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS) from 2019-02-07T16:40:16
Hal Wolf III became the CEO of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the largest global organisation connecting healthcare IT providers) in 2017. While having rich experienc...
ListenF029/Xpomet ep.1: How should medical education be reinvented? (Nana Bit-Avragim, Digital Health Transformer) from 2019-01-24T23:12:23
Investments in digital health have been rising for the last few years, encouraging innovation in applications of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, analytics, and other latest technologies i...
ListenF028 Anaesthesiology and the challenge of change management in hospitals (Chris Johnson, anaesthetist) from 2019-01-15T20:57:20
Chris Johnson is a Children’s Anaesthetist with 30 years of experience in clinical practice. Chris was the medical lead for the healthcare IT transformation of the Perth Children’s Hospital in Aust...
ListenF027 Can Malta be a gateway to the European market? (Stefan Buttigieg, Health 2.0 Malta) from 2019-01-02T22:15:36
The first episode of Faces of digital health offers a reflection on digital health in 2018, followed by a discussion on digital health in Malta. Because the country is small, the adoption of new so...
ListenF026 Cancer and the healing power of storytelling (Martin Inderbitzin, My Survival Story) from 2018-12-21T09:53:08
In 2012, right after finishing his PhD in neurobiology, Martin Inderbitzin got a rare type of pancreatic cancer. He found his strength in another patient's story. Martin's doctor told him about ano...
ListenF025 How to raise money in the digital health space? (Jack van Lint, NLC Healthtech Ventures) from 2018-12-13T06:09:01
What mistakes are entrepreneurs making? Why does the US seem like a better starting point compared to Europe in the early stages? How to look for support in the most initial stages of a company? In...
ListenF024 Gene editing, gene therapies, and genome sequencing on blockchain (Natalie Pankova, Shivom) from 2018-12-04T06:51:21
In November 2018, Associated Press shocked the global medical community with a news from China: A Chinese researcher claimed that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies. He edit...
ListenF023 Patient centricity: music for patients, time for doctors (Walter Werzowa, Klaus Laczika, Denise Silber, Raquel Correia) from 2018-11-27T17:23:02
In the broadest possible sense, patient centricity is a mental shift from WHAT is done for the patient in the healthcare system, to HOW things are done. The HOW may include the used technology but ...
ListenF022 Thoughts on AI, interoperability, and better society from the Exponential Medicine 2018 from 2018-11-13T17:49:49
This episode is a recap of a few talks at 2018 Exponential Medicine. You will hear thoughts on interoperability, practical use of AI in enterprises, some bold ideas about the future medicine thanks...
ListenF021 What is the CDC doing with blockchain? (Jay Jemal, IT specialist) from 2018-10-30T09:18:05
In 2017 media started reporting on promising blockchain projects inside the US Center for Disease Control (CDC). The hopes are that blockchain could help decrease the burden of reporting of epidemi...
ListenF020 Blockchain, value of data, and the role of legislation with adoption (Ray Dogum, Health Unchained) from 2018-10-16T07:49:23
An update on the current landscape of healthcare blockchain projects, when can we expect practical implications, what the role of legislation will be, and how genomics research, AI and blockchain m...
ListenF019 Will robots eradicate medication management errors in hospitals? (Lea Dias) from 2018-10-03T20:01:26
The key topic of today’s episode is pharmacy related robots, which will be presented by Lea Dias - a pharmacist by profession, who now works predominately as an advisor for international hospitals ...
ListenF018 Can Bolivia become the global digital health role model? (Shafi Ahmed) from 2018-09-18T19:53:58
In 2014, Shafi Ahmed removed a tumor from the liver and bowel of a patient in what was the first operation streamed live online using Google Glass. The procedure to remove was watched live via comp...
ListenF017 How are nurses shaping healthcare? (Shawna Butler, EntrepreNURSE) from 2018-08-07T05:29
Shawna Butler in an entrepreNURSE. She had a wide range of experiences in emergency medicine, cardiac, critical care, international medical flight transport, and workplace wellness. She is part of ...
ListenF016 Why aren’t nurses included in innovation processes more? (Rebecca Love, Hirenurses.com) from 2018-07-24T07:26:49
Nurses and midwives account for nearly 50% of the health workforce. While being an important group of healthcare stakeholders, they are often overlooked, especially when talking about innovation. H...
ListenF015 Education, health and how to raise independent children (Esther Wojcicki) from 2018-07-11T15:22:26
Esther Wojcicki is an accomplished journalist and a teacher with a very successful family. Her husband Stanley is Stanford University professor of physics and together three daughters: Susan (CEO o...
ListenF014 Big data, AI, and the meaning of communication skills in digital health (John Nosta, Nostalab) from 2018-06-25T21:59:57
John Nosta has been holding a strong position as the number one influencer in the digital health space for quite a few years. His career started in a research lab at Harvard Medical School, until...
ListenF013 What to expect from artificial intelligence in healthcare in the next 10 years? (Sally Daub, Enlitic) from 2018-06-12T08:56:43
AI is the buzzword startups are very keen on using when describing their products. For decades, movies are full of ideas on what artificial intelligence could do in a positive and negative way. Wha...
ListenF012 How advanced is China in digital health? (Bay McLaughlin&Miranda Gottlieb) from 2018-05-29T08:14:34
In this episode, two Americans share their insight in the healthcare development of the land with 1,4 billion people. Bay McLaughlin, Forbes contributor on tech in China and the co-founder of Brinc...
ListenF011 Will VR decrease drug expenditure? (Walter Greenleaf, Stanford) from 2018-05-15T20:31:24
According to dr. Walter Greenleaf, behavioral neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University, interactive virtual environments significantly reduce pain from as mu...
ListenF010 Can VR help treat addiction, PTSD, ADHD and other mental health issues? (Skip Rizzo, Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California) from 2018-05-01T17:20:20
Virtual reality has a long history. Its applications precede pure fun, by today, many therapies for medical purposes have been designed.Virtual reality has many medical applications, which you can ...
ListenF009: How actionable is precision medicine data today? (Subha Madhavan, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics) from 2018-04-19T21:20:54
The two largest determinants of health are the zip code and credit scores. What does that have to do with precision medicine and genetics? Big data combined with AI hold a lot of hope on prevention...
ListenF008: How do sex, blockchain and medical anthropology go together? (Samson Williams, Axes&Eggs) from 2018-04-03T21:45:56
A sex hunting anthropologist walks into a mortgage finance institution and out into the world to lead health initiatives globally; this is the fascinating tale of Samson Williams’ health career jou...
ListenF007 The hype and the hope: blockchain in healthcare? (Michael Dillhyon - Healthbank; Samson Williams - Axes&Eggs; Eugene Borukhovich - Bayer) from 2018-03-21T18:25:15
This is a recording of a panel discussion on blockchain in healthcare, which took place at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, during the Future for health conference at SXSW. You will hear about s...
ListenF006* Rasu Shrestha at SXSW: “Healthcare shouldn’t be about survival but about thrival” from 2018-03-15T13:35:44
“Most startups are in a hurry, most of healthcare not so much. How do we deal with that?” was one of the first questions with which Rasu Shrestha, CIO at UPMC addressed his audience during the Futu...
ListenF005 How to make employees value health? (Kathleen Harris, Time Warner) from 2018-03-08T16:40:36
In this episode, you will hear how Time Warner, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks and film and TV entertainment, is approaching employee health. Time...
ListenF004 Tackling mental health with digital health? (Dean Ornish - UCSF; Ritvik Singh - Psyinnovations; Richard Lee - Bravely) from 2018-02-21T07:58:24
According to WHO mental health disorders are generally characterized by some combination of abnormal thoughts, emotions, behaviour and relationships with others. Examples are schizophrenia, depress...
ListenF003 What is the state of digital health adoption in Africa? (Moka Lantum, MicroClinic) from 2018-02-07T08:08:36
Moka Lantum is an expert on the African healthcare market. We discussed healthcare IT and digital health adoption in Africa. He was nominated as 2016 Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazi...
ListenF002 Is it possible to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world? (Esther Dyson - Way to Wellville; Steven Krein, Unity Stoakes - Startup Health) from 2018-01-26T08:41:27
The legendary investor Esther Dyson is not a big fan of technology. She is a proponent of big ideas, demanding projects with a long-term positive influence on society. Founders of StartupHealth Uni...
ListenF001 How long can you live with the help of digital health? (Bertalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist) from 2018-01-11T09:09:43
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD is The Medical Futurist and Director of The Medical Futurist Institute analyzing how science fiction technologies can become reality in medicine and healthcare. As a geek ph...
Listen024 Japan: where robots are friends of the elderly (Kyoko Watanabe - Defta Partners; Yuuri Ueda - Health 2.0 Asia) from 2017-12-28T12:23:59
Japan. The land of anime - hand-drawn or computer animations, a technological superpower with a staggering gross government debt. It accounted for 219% of GDP in 2016. The long-lasting trend of wor...
Listen023 Misconceptions Around Blockchain And What It Will NOT Solve In Healthcare? (Helen Disney - Unblocked; Navin Ramachandran - University College London) from 2017-12-12T16:08:09
Blockchain is a new technology, still very complicated to understand, leaving a lot of space for misinterpretations and confusion in the public. This is one of the things the 23rd episode of Medici...
Listen022 What Can We Learn About Technology Adoption from Patients with Diabetes? (David Kliff, Diabetic Investor ) from 2017-11-27T13:47
If there is someone you want to ask for an opinion on diabetes management challenges it’s David Kliff, editor of Diabetic Investor — THE source of information when it comes to business aspects of d...
Listen021 Is Dubai Going To Become The Global Capital of Digital Health? (Michael Stroud - Dubai Healthcare City; Brian de Francesca - VER2; Mazin A. Gadir &Osama Elhassan - Dubai Health Authority) from 2017-11-13T20:02
Dubai is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is the most populous city and Emirate in the country with a GDP of 82 billion USD. It is a global business hub ...
Listen020 USA Healthcare Leaders - How Far From Collaboration First, Competition Later Relationship...? (Rasu Shrestha - UPMC; Mitesh Rao - Stanford; Ashish Atreja - Mount Sinai) from 2017-10-27T11:43
IT in healthcare is at the moment usually an added layer to existing ways of working, consequently too often a source of frustration and anguish instead of aid for medical professionals. According ...
Listen019 Is The Digital Health Revolution Just Starting? (Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0) from 2017-10-15T13:03
From todays perspective, when we already talk about practical uses of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robots in elderly care, Internet of Things, implantable, digestable and other sensor...
Listen018 What Forces Are Reshaping Early Stage Digital Health Funding? (Christian Seale; Matt Storeygard; Kyoko Watanabe; Alexander Hoffman; Clara Leonard) from 2017-10-02T05:14
How are VCs looking at the changing landscape of investment opportunities? This was the topic at the Early Stage investments panel at mHealth Israel Conference, held in Jerusalem in September 2017....
Listen017 Why Is Israel Called the Second Silicon Valley? (Levi Shapiro - mHealth Israel; Eyal Zimlichan - Sheba Medical; Ronny Shapiro, Shira LevAmi - Ministry of Health) from 2017-09-19T16:12
Israel is a country of 8.5 million people, attributing around 7.5 % of the GDP to healthcare. Serial entrepreneurship is the norm here, fueled by military service discipline, high population educat...
Listen016 How Is Digital Health Industry Reshaping Clinical Trials? (Guido Axman - Medicinisto; Alexander Puschilov - Viomedo) from 2017-09-05T00:58
Clinical trials are essential from many aspects. They are needed for assessment of safety, efficacy, and superiority of existing drugs, therapies, equipment. They are essential to an assessment of ...
Listen015 Healthcare IT System Beyond Imagination: The Russian Way (Anna Dubovik, Government of Moscow) from 2017-08-08T16:51
In this episode Anna Dubovik, a data analyst working for the government of Moscow talks about IMIAS - Integrated Medical Information and Analytical System. It connects more than 660 clinics and ove...
Listen014 Blockchain in Healthcare: How and How Fast Could It Be Applied? (Nadia Thibault Diakun, Chrissa McFarlane) from 2017-07-10T17:36
In this podcast, two brilliant women explain applications of blockchain in healthcare. The first expert you are about to hear from is Nadia Thibault Diakun. She was in the team of researches that w...
Listen013 Consumer Trackers, Sensors, Health Monitors - How Useful for How Long? (Manesh Juneja) from 2017-06-20T15:34
Do you, or have you, ever owned or tries a wearable sensor? Wearable devices for healthcare are estimated at 870 million USD today. The market is supposed to grow to 4,4 billion USD by 2019, when t...
Listen012 Rethinking Business Models in Healthcare. Patients as Consumers? (Jesus del Valle, Axel Polack, Klaus Stöckemann, Dorjan Marušič, Stanislav Sirakov, Alex Farcet) from 2017-05-31T19:47
According to some estimates, it takes 17 years from a medical innovation to become a part of the standard practice in medicine. Adoption of technologies in healthcare is slow. Investments in digita...
Listen011 Tackling the German Healthcare System (Klaus Stöckemann, Peppermint Venture Partners, part 2) from 2017-05-19T19:18
When it comes to digitalization on a national level, German eHealth is lagging heavily behind other European countries. Fax machines still have an important place in healthcare, says Dr. Klaus Stöc...
Listen010 Tackling the German Healthcare System (Klaus Stöckemann, Peppermint Venture Partners, part 1) from 2017-05-10T15:26
Which funding models can digital health and biotech companies count on? This was one of the main topics at the last Charite Entrepreneurship Summit, held in Berlin at the beginning of May. In this ...
Listen009 What Do Your Genes Say About You? from 2017-04-19T09:51
In 2004, after 14 years of research, The Human Genome Project was concluded. 99,9% of the human genome was sequenced and we learned that people have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. Genes are seen...
Listen008 Cybersecurity in Healthcare (Sachin Gaur, InnovatioCuris) from 2017-03-31T18:36
In this episode, Sachin Gaur, a researcher, and entrepreneur in space of mobile and Internet solutions talks about cybersecurity and innovation in healthcare in India. After working and studying in...
Listen007 Is India the mHealth Paradise and How Much Improvement Can Digital Health Bring To The Country? (Prabhu Guptara, William Carey University) from 2017-03-21T13:46
It is hard to imagine the size of the country with 1.3 billion people. That is the approximate population of India. In healthcare, the country faces many challenges: a big shortage of doctors, espe...
Listen006 Biosensors, Not Simple Wearables Are The Way Forward In Digital Health (Anthony Turner, Linköping University Sweden) from 2017-03-06T17:28
Wearables and measurements. Which Point of Care devices are just gadgets and which ones bring actual better outcomes for patients? British researcher prof. dr. Anthony Turner, Head of The Biosensor...
Listen005 Online Health Communities: A Secret Treasury of Information on Patients (Gregor Petric, Faculty of Social Sciences Ljubljana) from 2017-02-21T13:51
Internet forums have been here before smartphones and somehow, despite all the apps, they are still very much alive, especially for health information. They give patients information, support, psyc...
Listen004 Where and How Can Doctors Prescribe Apps? (Ashish Atreja, Mount Sinai) from 2017-02-07T12:24
In 2012 Cleveland Clinic experts designed the Medical Innovation Playbook – a detailed report on the diverse and rapidly evolving technology commercialization programs of the USA’s top medical cent...
Listen003 How Did a Digital Health Vision End Up in The Oval Office? (Unity Stoakes, Startup Health) from 2017-01-24T02:36
In 2010 an idea was born: to build an army of entrepreneurs to improve health care worldwide. Only a year later the founders of StartUp Health pitched their vision to former U.S. president Barack O...
Listen002 Why Is It So Hard To Integrate IT Into Healthcare? (Tomaz Gornik, Marand) from 2017-01-12T04:48
Remember how if you go from central Europe to the UK or US, you can’t plug your charger into a socket, because they are different? They are not compatible. This is how a lot of medical data looks l...
Listen001 How Useful Are Digital Health Solutions in Reality? from 2017-01-12T04:42
Healthcare and medicine are overwhelmed by innovation. There is a lot of excitement around digitization: convenience of telemedicine, electronic health records, apps, new devices. However, don't be...
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