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Cancer Series Ep. 3: AI, Precision Oncology and Understanding Cancer (Pangea Biomed)
This is the 3rd episode in the Cancer Series. In this episode, you’ll hear a bit about precision medicine in oncology, drug repurposing and the increasing challenges precision medicine poses for clinical trials. I spoke with Tuvik Beker, CE…
Cancer Series Ep.2: Cancer, Genomics and Data Science
This is the second episode in a special series about cancer, cancer care, accessibility and technologies related to cancer care. The first episode focused on the current state of cancer care with a speaker from Canada - David J. Stewart, MD…
Cancer Series Ep. 1: Access to Care, Financial Toxicity and Healthcare IT in Oncology
There were an estimated 18.1 million cancer cases around the world in 2020, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. According to the Comparator Report on Cancer in Europe 2020, the absolute number of people diagnosed with…
The Power Of At-Home Diagnostics and Prevention of STDs (Ash Wellness)
This episode explores the role of at-home diagnostic testing in managing and preventing sexually transmitted diseases. More than 1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which include syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV hepatitis, …
Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana: How is Medtronic Labs Redefining Chronic Disease Management
This is the second episode where we will discuss healthcare delivery in Africa. In the previous episode, the entrepreneur and regulatory advisor Herve Mwamba from South Africa talked about stereotypes and medical device regulation in Africa…
South Africa & Africa More Broady: What’s The State of Medical Device Regulation?
It’s September, it’s time for school and a new season of Faces of digital health podcast episodes. Faces of digital health strives to bring you an insight into digital health development across the world. We’re going to start this season in…
What Makes Hospital Medication Management Complex? (Talking Healthtech Summit)
There are “five rights” of medication use: the right patient, the right drug, the right time, the right dose, and the right route. It might seem obvious, but in practice, an error can occur at the level of each of these “right”s. Unsafe med…
EIT Health Germany Series 7/12: How Can A Digital Health Solution Become a "DiGA App" in Germany?
Patients dream about reliable and clinically meaningful digital innovations that would help improve their health in a smooth way. With the digital health market maturing, startups increasingly need to not only offer a good user experience b…
How Advanced are Artificial Limbs? (Dima Gazda, Esper Bionics)
In 2017, 57.7 million people were living with limb amputation due to traumatic causes worldwide. Apart from accidents, a person might need an amputation due to vascular diseases and diabetes. You might have come across increasingly sophisti…
Best of 2021: Taiwan and its Healthcare Digitalization (Yu-Chuan Jack Li)
This episode was first published in summer 2021, and is one of the most listened-to episodes from 2021. Taiwan spends only 6.4% of it’s GDP for healthcare, but has high satisfaction rates with healthcare, and is also very digitalized. In th…
EIT Health Germany Series 6/12: Crowdfuding Doesn't Work for Healthcare and the Rise of Digital Visual Stress
One of the more prominent news in July was that according to Sifted, healthcare seed investments in Europe surpassed Fintech investments in June, making the health tech industry the industry that’s attracting the most investments. At the sa…
Best of 2021: (OVER)DOSE - How Can We Prevent Medication Errors and Patient Harm?
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 to raise awareness about the need to further…
Sleep and Digital Health in Brazil (Renata Redondo Bonaldi)
Brazil had over 200 million people; how many of them sleep well? I hope you’re enjoying summer and resting enough. Many people have issues with sleeping: either not sleeping enough or sleeping poorly. Oftentimes, poor sleep hygiene, such as…
What Do Patients Really Think About Data? (EPF Congress 2022)
How many times in the last year or two have you heard that patients should own their data or have control over their data? These statements sound simple but are much more complex once you start to look at the implications they might have in…
Pakistan: Making The Best of Existing Technology With a Strategic Approach (Zahid Ali)
After several discussions about digital health in the APAC region, we are finishing the exploration in the region with a debate about healthcare digitalization in Pakistan. Pakistan has 242 million people. It’s the 5th largest population in…
Digital Health in APAC: An Overview (Keren Priyadashini, Microsoft Asia)
Dr. Keren Priyadashini is Regional Business Lead of Worldwide Health for Microsoft Asia. She leads the company’s healthcare business segment across 17 markets in Asia Pacific. Looking at digital health investments in the APAC region, accord…
(TRAILER) The State of the Right To Be Forgotten for Cancer Survivors in Europe (dr. Françoise Meunier)
Many cancer survivors in long-term remission are faced with restricted access to financial services because of their medical history. Some EU countries have already implemented the right to be forgotten - a right for patients to not disclos…
Why is Australia Not a Global Exemplar in Telehealth? (Peter Birch)
In the previous episode we explored healthcare and the position of doctors in Malaysia. Today and in the next few episodes, we will stay in the Asia Pacific region, by peeking into Australia, Pakistan Singapore, and more. My guest today is …
Doctors and Healthcare in Malaysia (Selina Chew)
In the previous episode, you could listen to Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones - Founder & CEO - of Medic Footprints. Medic Footprints is a UK-based company, with a mission to bring various career opportunities to doctors. The projections of cli…
What Do Doctors Want? (Abeyna Bubbers Jones)
WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle-income countries. However, countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face, to varying degrees, difficulties in the educatio…
SPELLED OUT: How is Pharma Taking Advantage of Digital Health?
Is it time to stop talking about digital health and just focus on health? Where, in which department, do digital health innovations fit within Pharma? Do we expect too much in terms of the speed of digital health innovation in Pharma? These…
EIT Health Germany Series 5/12: How Can We Help With Medical Aid in Ukraine?
When the war in Ukraine began, Marta Kaczmarek welcomed one of the refugee families to her home. She then thought about how more could be done to help Ukrainians and started an incentive called EIT Health Ukraine. EIT Health, which is a Eur…
Rethinking Access to Healthcare in Rural America (Jennifer Schneider, Homeward)
Jennifer Schneider used to be the Chief Medical Officer and President of Livongo. In 2022 she started a company focused on improving access to healthcare in rural America. More than 46 million Americans, or 15 percent of the U.S. population…
Voice Tech: How Well Are You Listening To Your Customers? (Amy Brown, Authenticx)
Voice could be called one of the exciting new avenues for medicine and healthcare: first, it is seen as a potential optimization tool, if we used voice tech instead of typing data into software. A few months ago, Julia Hoxha, the CEO of Zan…