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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F083 Doctors in digital health 3/4: Connecting specialists and primary care doctors for faster, better patient care (Owain Rhys Hughes)
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 for more precise dosing of medications chronic patients wit...
F082 Doctors in digital health series 2/4: Managing task management in healthcare - “It’s about the patient, not paperwork” (Michael Docktor)
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 forces of digital health innovation at Boston’s Children’s...
F081 Doctors in digital health series 1/4: The Digitome, Digital Health for COVID-19 and a new approach to medication adherence (Daniel Kraft)
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 exploring global perspectives, you are going to hear from...
F080 How far are we with digitising mental health support? (Christopher Molaro)
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 "pervasive" impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. U...
S079 Women's health and the dream but real healthcare setting (Carolyn Witte)
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 of Tia - the next generation women's healthcare platform ...
S078 DTx series 5/5: Diabetes clinical trials on Whatsapp? (Abhishek Shah)
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 companies, payors and healthcare providers to improve healt...
F077 DTx series 4/5: Want to get rid of chronic pain? (Mark Liber, Kaia Health)
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 very expensive to treat, as patients require medical imagini...
F076 DTx series 3/5: Are you drinking? (Jamie Moore)
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 abuse for over a decade, with a digital approach, that ha...
F75: Healthcare innovation financing in times of COVID-19 (Part 2/2)
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, Germany and Israel to join us in the discussion about the ...
F074 Healthcare innovation financing in times of COVID19 (Part 1/2)
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, Germany and Israel to join us in the discussion about the ...
F073 DTx series 2/5: What's Pharma got to do with digital therapeutics? (Paul Simms)
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 trends and practices at events, in reports and conferences. In...
F072 DTx series 1/5: How do DTx differ from medications or digital health apps? (Jessica Shull)
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 Therapeutics Alliance, shaping advocacy and organizationa...
F071 Why is St. Louis a hidden digital health ecosystem gem in the US and the latest about digital health efforts for COVID-19
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-assessment apps are available, the US is seeing a rise of t...
F070 Why is getting sick in the US financially toxic for many people? (Christopher T. Robertson)
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 reducing, it is being replaced with the issue of underinsur...
F069 What else is there to learn about pitching digital health solutions? (Beth Susanne)
"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 to say NO to you," says Beth Susanne. The key thing to con...
F068 The power of patients 4/4: What skills do you need as a patient? (Grace Cordovano)
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 Unblock Health - a suite of services that finally provi...
F067 The power of patients 3/4: How can patients influence policy? (Bettina Ryll)
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 influencing role. When a patient’s interest in his disease...
F066 The power of patients 2/4: Patients need more than medical treatment (Marina Borukhovich)
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 shares her story of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 3...
F065 The power of patients 1/4: What do you do, when the system gives up on you? (Roi Shternin)
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 visited 33 doctors. “The 33rd doctor told my parents that I wil...
F064 Fighting loneliness in older people with robots (Richard Marshall)
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, Alzheimer’s disease, and even death. Can these problems be allevi...
F063 How to build a community in healthcare? (Aline Noizet)
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 health. She started her digital health journey working for the...
F062 GDPR, MDR, and what you can do about you medical data (Jovan Stevovic)
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, CEO and Co-Founder of Chino.io, companies are much bette...
F061 Why do so many data breaches and cyber attacks happen in healthcare? (Chris Bowen)
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 controls, and locking accounts after too many failed login atte...
F60 2020: Redefined experience, further progress of DTx and new expectation about investments, quantum computing
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 - answered a seemingly simple and open-ended question: Wha...