Faces of digital health is a podcast about digital health trends and how healthcare systems around the world adopt technology. The podcast steers away from American centricity in reporting about digital health. I believe this information can be helpful for healthcare entrepreneurs considering different global markets. It can give medical professionals and decision-makers insight into the latest digital health trends.
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Faces of Digital Health
Faces of digital health is a podcast about digital health trends and how healthcare systems around the world adopt technology. The podcast steers away from American centricity in reporting about digital health. I believe this information can be helpful for hea…
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- 2017 – 2026
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- Aug 2026
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F132 What's The State of Cybersecurity In Healthcare? (Lee Kim)
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 know? Lee Kim is Director of Privacy and Sec…
F131 How Can We Better Measure Pain? (Sara E. Berger, IBM)
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 researcher at IBM with over a decade of expe…
F130 How Can We Optimize the Use of Antibiotics? (Oliver Schacht, OpGen)
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 antimicrobials are not used effectively. In this …
F129 What Is the State of Digital Health Law? (Bianca Rose Phillips)
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 people know her by her framework of the so-…
F128 What Are We Missing About AI Development In Healthcare? (Casey Ross)
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 the FDA between 2012 and 2020. As it turns ou…
F127 Why Do People Go Bankrupt Due to Medical Costs in the US? (Ric Sinclair)
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 health insurance. Even if you have health …
F126 How is Tradition Hindering Health Literacy in Kenya, Tanzania and Malaysia? (Shamala Hinrichsen, Mariatheresa Samson Kaduschi)
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 company providing health information to the underse…
F125 Amazon in Healthcare, AI Related Disparities and the Microbiome Challenges (Erin Brodwin)
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 business. There were many doubts that Amaz…
F124 AgeTech 4/4: How would you choose to die? (Ryan Van Wert, Vynca)
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 treatment of Rodney Knoepfle. In theory, p…
F123 AgeTech Series 3/4: Boosting Empathy In Geriatric Care (Martina Viduka, Advosense)
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 third discussion about AgeTech: In the first epi…
F122 AgeTech Series 2/4: Algorithm-based Matchmaking Of The Elderly And Caregivers (Anja Silbauer)
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 entrepreneur, Anja Silbauer. According to OECD, hea…
F 121 AgeTech Series 1/4: Healthcare and technology in the oldest population in the world - Japan
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 alone in the hospital, without the option to s…
F120 A Glimpse Into Japan and How to Introduce AI to Clinicians (Adrian Sossna)
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, time-series data, such as ECG data, and…
F119 How are technologies improving global public health (Dr. Padmini Murthy)
Book discussion: Technology and Global Public Health
F118 Healthcare is Diverse. Why Is Healthtech Investing Not? (Dr. Fiona Pathiraja)
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 opportunities. US VC funding for female-founded or co-founded com...
F117 How Music Beats Got a Breakthrough Device FDA Designation (Brian Harris, MedRythms)
Music can change our mood, energize ur, make us feel invincible.
F116 Medication Management Goes Beyond Pill Reminders. Patients Want Transparency. (Jennifer Butler)
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 burdensome. Patients might not take medications because th...
F115 Primary care digitalisation in New Zealand, Australia and the USA (Dimitri Varsamis)
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 Zealand, Australia, and the USA - lessons for the UK’s N...
F114 “My hope is we will mispronounce COVID in ten years” (John Nosta)
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 the first episode of this year, I wanted to prepare an e...
F 113 Predictions about 2021 (and beyond) by digital health experts from the US, Israel, Mexico, Chile, UK, Italy and South Korea
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 leaders from the digital health industry across the world. Y...
F112 How is regenerative medicine disrupting the MedTech industry (Frank Barry)
The idea behind regenerative medicine is to enable medicine to use human cells as therapies. This means that instead of using artificial joints and other implants we currently use for healing, we could use cells that would regenerate our own tissues. Acc...
F111 The full circle in telemedicine - adding home delivery of medications and at-home diagnostics ( Sid Viswanathan, Truepill)
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 to hit revenues of $131 billion by 2025 worldwide. The A...
F110 "Patient records on the blockchain are still a dream" (Robert Miller)
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 program or an actual implementation. However, we probably won't...
109 How digitally healthy is New Zealand? (Scott Arrol)
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 containing the virus better than most countries in the world,...