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F014 Big data, AI, and the meaning of communication skills in digital health (John Nosta, Nostalab)
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 he redirected his creative energy into marketing. About ...
F013 What to expect from artificial intelligence in healthcare in the next 10 years? (Sally Daub, Enlitic)
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. What is AI, deep learning or a simple algorithm? What is the...
F012 How advanced is China in digital health? (Bay McLaughlin & Miranda Gottlieb)
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.io, part incubator, part accelerator, part investment fu...
F011 Will VR decrease drug expenditure? (Walter Greenleaf, Stanford)
According to dr. Walter Greenleaf, behavioral neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University, interactive virtual environments significantly reduce pain from as much as 44% during the most painful procedures (ex: burn wo...
F010 Can VR help treat addiction, PTSD, ADHD and other mental health issues? (Skip Rizzo, Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California)
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 learn about from two experts featured in Facs of digita...
F009: How actionable is precision medicine data today? (Subha Madhavan, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics)
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 and more effective disease treatments. The current reali...
F008: How do sex, blockchain and medical anthropology go together? (Samson Williams, Axes & Eggs)
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 journey. Samson Williams is an entrepreneur and fintech guru...
F007 The hype and the hope: blockchain in healthcare? (Michael Dillhyon - Healthbank; Samson Williams - Axes & Eggs; Eugene Borukhovich - Bayer)
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 some interesting ongoing blockchain projects such as the C...
F006* Rasu Shrestha at SXSW: “Healthcare shouldn’t be about survival but about thrival”
“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 Future for health at SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. With t...
F005 How to make employees value health? (Kathleen Harris, Time Warner)
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 Warner has more than 25.000 employees around the globe, ...
F004 Tackling mental health with digital health? (Dean Ornish - UCSF; Ritvik Singh - Psyinnovations; Richard Lee - Bravely)
According to WHO mental health disorders are generally characterized by some combination of abnormal thoughts, emotions, behaviour and relationships with others. Examples are schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disabilities and disorders due to drug ...
F003 What is the state of digital health adoption in Africa? (Moka Lantum, MicroClinic)
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 Magazine for his work as founder of the non-profit, 2020 MicroC...
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)
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 Unity Stoakes and Steven Krein are serial entrepreneurs, dri...
F001 How long can you live with the help of digital health? (Bertalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist)
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 physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top ...
024 Japan: where robots are friends of the elderly (Kyoko Watanabe - Defta Partners; Yuuri Ueda - Health 2.0 Asia)
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 worsening fiscal situation in Japan continues alongside the ...
023 Misconceptions Around Blockchain And What It Will NOT Solve In Healthcare? (Helen Disney - Unblocked; Navin Ramachandran - University College London)
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 Medicine Today on Digital Health addresses: what blockchain can...
022 What Can We Learn About Technology Adoption from Patients with Diabetes? (David Kliff, Diabetic Investor )
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 diabetes. He’s been following the field closely ever since...
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)
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 that keeps transforming rapidly. In October 2016, Dubai l...
020 USA Healthcare Leaders - How Far From Collaboration First, Competition Later Relationship...? (Rasu Shrestha - UPMC; Mitesh Rao - Stanford; Ashish Atreja - Mount Sinai)
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 to CB Insight, US represents 75% of the global digital he...
019 Is The Digital Health Revolution Just Starting? (Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0)
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, the world 11 years ago seems unrecognisable. After all,...
018 What Forces Are Reshaping Early Stage Digital Health Funding? (Christian Seale; Matt Storeygard; Kyoko Watanabe; Alexander Hoffman; Clara Leonard)
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. The included speakers were: Christian Seale, Partner, St...
017 Why Is Israel Called the Second Silicon Valley? (Levi Shapiro - mHealth Israel; Eyal Zimlichan - Sheba Medical; Ronny Shapiro, Shira LevAmi - Ministry of Health)
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 education and good ties with the best education institutions an...
016 How Is Digital Health Industry Reshaping Clinical Trials? (Guido Axman - Medicinisto; Alexander Puschilov - Viomedo)
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 new scientific findings. However, many challenges surroun...
015 Healthcare IT System Beyond Imagination: The Russian Way (Anna Dubovik, Government of Moscow)
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 over 23.6 thousand medical practitioners in Moscow. The syst...