Faces of Digital Health
Episodes
F043 Digital Health in Asia 3/5: India & reinvention of medical education with Project ECHO (Sunil Anand, Kartik Dhar)
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, una...
F042 Digital health in Asia 2/5: What drives the incredible pace of development in China? (Julie Wang)
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
F041 Digital health in Asia 1/5: An overview (Julien de Salaberry)
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
F040 Slovenia (Part 1): What to learn from Slovenia about drug regulation?
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
F040 Slovenia (Part 2): How strong is the digital health community?
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 syst...
F039 Patient behavior: what to consider when designing solutions? (Claire Kamoun)
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patients are getting increasingly engaged in their treatments, becoming the decisionmakers not just recipients of care. But to design a successful sol...
Coming soon: Digital health in Asia series
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 episod...
F038 What do you know about the African healthcare market? (Moka Lantum)
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Developing countries are often seen as ideal test hubs for innovation: there's no existing infrastructure to disrupt, the regulation permits a faster ...
F037 G4A and the evolution of the digital health ecosystem (Eugene Barukhovich, G4A)
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
G4A, formerly known as Grants4Apps is probably the most famous digital health accelerator inside a Pharma conglomerate. For a few years, the program ...
F036 How is AI decoding aging? (Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine)
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Longevity, eternal youth or even immortality have been an aspiration in religion and culture throughout history. Today, people adopt all sorts of appr...
F035 Estonia: To which extent does the digital infrastructure support healthcare? (Hannalore Taal)
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 resid...
Digital Health in Japan, China, Israel, Dubai, Germany and Bolivia
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This short recording offers a snippet of thoughts about healthcare China, Japan, Germany, Dubai, Israel, Japan, and Bolivia.
F034 How are AI and wearables disrupting clinical trials? (Dr. Sam Volchenboum, University of Chicago)
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 tri...
F033 Blockchain in Healthcare - a new book guide (David Metcalf, Alex Cahana, Editors)
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
F032 Tech advancements in surgery, VR and the healthcare crisis in Venezuela (Rafael Grossmann)
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
F031 Hacking global health through hackathons (Annie Lamontagne, Hacking Health)
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackathons have by today become a popular approach for bringing people with various backgrounds in the same room, offering them a concentrated time, u...
F030 What role does HIMSS play in the global healthcare transformation? (Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS)
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hal Wolf III became the CEO of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the largest global organisation connecting healthcare IT ...
F029/Xpomet ep.1: How should medical education be reinvented? (Nana Bit-Avragim, Digital Health Transformer)
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Investments in digital health have been rising for the last few years, encouraging innovation in applications of artificial intelligence, virtual real...
F028 Anaesthesiology and the challenge of change management in hospitals (Chris Johnson, anaesthetist)
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Johnson is a Children’s Anaesthetist with 30 years of experience in clinical practice. Chris was the medical lead for the healthcare IT transf...
F027 Can Malta be a gateway to the European market? (Stefan Buttigieg, Health 2.0 Malta)
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. Beca...
F026 Cancer and the healing power of storytelling (Martin Inderbitzin, My Survival Story)
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, right after finishing his PhD in neurobiology, Martin Inderbitzin got a rare type of pancreatic cancer. He found his strength in another pati...
F025 How to raise money in the digital health space? (Jack van Lint, NLC Healthtech Ventures)
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 supp...
F024 Gene editing, gene therapies, and genome sequencing on blockchain (Natalie Pankova, Shivom)
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2018, Associated Press shocked the global medical community with a news from China: A Chinese researcher claimed that he helped make the w...
F023 Patient centricity: music for patients, time for doctors (Walter Werzowa, Klaus Laczika, Denise Silber, Raquel Correia)
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 don...
F022 Thoughts on AI, interoperability, and better society from the Exponential Medicine 2018
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, s...
F021 What is the CDC doing with blockchain? (Jay Jemal, IT specialist)
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017 media started reporting on promising blockchain projects inside the US Center for Disease Control (CDC). The hopes are that blockchain could h...
F020 Blockchain, value of data, and the role of legislation with adoption (Ray Dogum, Health Unchained)
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An update on the current landscape of healthcare blockchain projects, when can we expect practical implications, what the role of legislation will be,...
F019 Will robots eradicate medication management errors in hospitals? (Lea Dias)
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 predomi...
F018 Can Bolivia become the global digital health role model? (Shafi Ahmed)
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
F017 How are nurses shaping healthcare? (Shawna Butler, EntrepreNURSE)
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shawna Butler in an entrepreNURSE. She had a wide range of experiences in emergency medicine, cardiac, critical care, international medical flight tra...
F016 Why aren’t nurses included in innovation processes more? (Rebecca Love, Hirenurses.com)
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nurses and midwives account for nearly 50% of the health workforce. While being an important group of healthcare stakeholders, they are often overlook...
F015 Education, health and how to raise independent children (Esther Wojcicki)
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Wojcicki is an accomplished journalist and a teacher with a very successful family. Her husband Stanley is Stanford University professor of phy...
F014 Big data, AI, and the meaning of communication skills in digital health (John Nosta, Nostalab)
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
F013 What to expect from artificial intelligence in healthcare in the next 10 years? (Sally Daub, Enlitic)
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
AI is the buzzword startups are very keen on using when describing their products. For decades, movies are full of ideas on what artificial intelligen...
F012 How advanced is China in digital health? (Bay McLaughlin & Miranda Gottlieb)
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, two Americans share their insight in the healthcare development of the land with 1,4 billion people. Bay McLaughlin, Forbes contribut...
F011 Will VR decrease drug expenditure? (Walter Greenleaf, Stanford)
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
According to dr. Walter Greenleaf, behavioral neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University, interactive virtual en...
F010 Can VR help treat addiction, PTSD, ADHD and other mental health issues? (Skip Rizzo, Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California)
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual reality has a long history. Its applications precede pure fun, by today, many therapies for medical purposes have been designed. Virtual real...
F009: How actionable is precision medicine data today? (Subha Madhavan, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics)
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
F008: How do sex, blockchain and medical anthropology go together? (Samson Williams, Axes & Eggs)
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A sex hunting anthropologist walks into a mortgage finance institution and out into the world to lead health initiatives globally; this is the fascina...
F007 The hype and the hope: blockchain in healthcare? (Michael Dillhyon - Healthbank; Samson Williams - Axes & Eggs; Eugene Borukhovich - Bayer)
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
F006* Rasu Shrestha at SXSW: “Healthcare shouldn’t be about survival but about thrival”
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“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,...
F005 How to make employees value health? (Kathleen Harris, Time Warner)
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ente...
F004 Tackling mental health with digital health? (Dean Ornish - UCSF; Ritvik Singh - Psyinnovations; Richard Lee - Bravely)
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
According to WHO mental health disorders are generally characterized by some combination of abnormal thoughts, emotions, behaviour and relationships w...
F003 What is the state of digital health adoption in Africa? (Moka Lantum, MicroClinic)
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
F002 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)
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 infl...
F001 How long can you live with the help of digital health? (Bertalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist)
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD is The Medical Futurist and Director of The Medical Futurist Institute analyzing how science fiction technologies can become r...
024 Japan: where robots are friends of the elderly (Kyoko Watanabe - Defta Partners; Yuuri Ueda - Health 2.0 Asia)
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Japan. The land of anime - hand-drawn or computer animations, a technological superpower with a staggering gross government debt. It accounted for 219...
023 Misconceptions Around Blockchain And What It Will NOT Solve In Healthcare? (Helen Disney - Unblocked; Navin Ramachandran - University College London)
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain is a new technology, still very complicated to understand, leaving a lot of space for misinterpretations and confusion in the public. This ...
022 What Can We Learn About Technology Adoption from Patients with Diabetes? (David Kliff, Diabetic Investor )
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
021 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)
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
020 USA Healthcare Leaders - How Far From Collaboration First, Competition Later Relationship...? (Rasu Shrestha - UPMC; Mitesh Rao - Stanford; Ashish Atreja - Mount Sinai)
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 inste...
019 Is The Digital Health Revolution Just Starting? (Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0)
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From todays perspective, when we already talk about practical uses of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robots in elderly care, Internet of T...
018 What Forces Are Reshaping Early Stage Digital Health Funding? (Christian Seale; Matt Storeygard; Kyoko Watanabe; Alexander Hoffman; Clara Leonard)
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How are VCs looking at the changing landscape of investment opportunities? This was the topic at the Early Stage investments panel at mHealth Israel C...
017 Why Is Israel Called the Second Silicon Valley? (Levi Shapiro - mHealth Israel; Eyal Zimlichan - Sheba Medical; Ronny Shapiro, Shira LevAmi - Ministry of Health)
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 mili...
016 How Is Digital Health Industry Reshaping Clinical Trials? (Guido Axman - Medicinisto; Alexander Puschilov - Viomedo)
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical trials are essential from many aspects. They are needed for assessment of safety, efficacy, and superiority of existing drugs, therapies, equ...
015 Healthcare IT System Beyond Imagination: The Russian Way (Anna Dubovik, Government of Moscow)
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Anna Dubovik, a data analyst working for the government of Moscow talks about IMIAS - Integrated Medical Information and Analytical Sy...
014 Blockchain in Healthcare: How and How Fast Could It Be Applied? (Nadia Thibault Diakun, Chrissa McFarlane)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, two brilliant women explain applications of blockchain in healthcare. The first expert you are about to hear from is Nadia Thibault D...
013 Consumer Trackers, Sensors, Health Monitors - How Useful for How Long? (Manesh Juneja)
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 supp...
012 Rethinking Business Models in Healthcare. Patients as Consumers? (Jesus del Valle, Axel Polack, Klaus Stöckemann, Dorjan Marušič, Stanislav Sirakov, Alex Farcet)
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
According to some estimates, it takes 17 years from a medical innovation to become a part of the standard practice in medicine. Adoption of technologi...
011 Tackling the German Healthcare System (Klaus Stöckemann, Peppermint Venture Partners, part 2)
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to digitalization on a national level, German eHealth is lagging heavily behind other European countries. Fax machines still have an imp...
010 Tackling the German Healthcare System (Klaus Stöckemann, Peppermint Venture Partners, part 1)
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Which funding models can digital health and biotech companies count on? This was one of the main topics at the last Charite Entrepreneurship Summit, h...
009 What Do Your Genes Say About You?
19 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
008 Cybersecurity in Healthcare (Sachin Gaur, InnovatioCuris)
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sachin Gaur, a researcher, and entrepreneur in space of mobile and Internet solutions talks about cybersecurity and innovation in hea...
007 Is India the mHealth Paradise and How Much Improvement Can Digital Health Bring To The Country? (Prabhu Guptara, William Carey University)
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
006 Biosensors, Not Simple Wearables Are The Way Forward In Digital Health (Anthony Turner, Linköping University Sweden)
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Wearables and measurements. Which Point of Care devices are just gadgets and which ones bring actual better outcomes for patients? British researcher ...
005 Online Health Communities: A Secret Treasury of Information on Patients (Gregor Petric, Faculty of Social Sciences Ljubljana)
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Internet forums have been here before smartphones and somehow, despite all the apps, they are still very much alive, especially for health information...
004 Where and How Can Doctors Prescribe Apps? (Ashish Atreja, Mount Sinai)
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012 Cleveland Clinic experts designed the Medical Innovation Playbook – a detailed report on the diverse and rapidly evolving technology commerc...
003 How Did a Digital Health Vision End Up in The Oval Office? (Unity Stoakes, Startup Health)
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
002 Why Is It So Hard To Integrate IT Into Healthcare? (Tomaz Gornik, Marand)
12 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 comp...
001 How Useful Are Digital Health Solutions in Reality?
12 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare and medicine are overwhelmed by innovation. There is a lot of excitement around digitization: convenience of telemedicine, electronic healt...