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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The Netherlands Ep. 2: Buurtzorg: Redefining Nursing With Self-Managing Teams
One of the biggest global challenges in healthcare at the moment is the workforce crisis. Workforce shortages are not related to the number of people that get trained for healthcare professionals but the working conditions that they need to…
Netherlands Ep. 1: Insights from the CIOs of Three University Medical Centers in the Netherlands
After a series of discussions about healthcare data in the US, we’re now moving to insights and good practices in the Netherlands. The Netherlands has roughly 17 million people. As you will hear, its healthcare is highly digitalized with hi…
Healthcare Data Series 5/5: Seqster - The Operating System For Easier Healthcare Research
This is the fifth and last episode of the Healthcare Data in the US series. In the first one, Arif Nathoo - CEO and co-founder of Komodo Health, described how the company is planning to capture and de-identify every encounter patients have …
Healthcare Data Series 4/5: Synthetic Data, Automation of Care Tasks, and Better Insights from EHR data in Acute and Oncology Care
Electronic health records and digital data gathering have now been around long enough that the focus has shifted from gathering to using the data for research, AI development, and clinical decision support systems. Various companies are try…
Healthcare Data Series 3/5: Palantir Foundry and Making Data-Driven Decision Healthcare
This is the third episode in a series of discussions about healthcare data challenges and data management practices in the US. One thing is clear to everybody: regardless of the efforts, patient data is still scattered around in different o…
Healthcare data series 2/4: EPIC Cosmos - Next Step in EHR Data Mining
If you work in healthcare IT, you must have heard the name EPIC. EPIC is a renowned EHR provider, that covers around a third of the US healthcare market. In 2019, Epic launched Cosmos, a special program for data mining of patient records da…
Healthcare Data Series 1/4: How is Komodo Health Gathering and Analysing Health Data of the Whole US Population?
The words healthcare data carry many associations: from frustrations around data interoperability, outrage about the value and monetization of healthcare data, anger due to poor access to medical records by patients, and we could go on. In …
NLP in Healthcare 3/3: ChatGPT, MedPalm and the impact of NLP in healthcare
This episode is the last on in the series of three discussions about natural language processing in healthcare. In the first episode, I discussed the state of symptom checkers with Jeff Cutler, CCO of Ada Health - the leading symptom-checki…
NLP in Healthcare 2/3: The Power of Voice and NLP for Medical Practice Optimization (Punit Singh Soni, Suki)
The promise of voice is great: doctors speak to their patients, while their words get correctly transcribed, interpreted and recorded in a structured way in a clinical system. No more long hours spent on typing clinical notes on the compute…
NLP in healthcare 1/3: The State of Symptom Checkers (Jeff Cuttler, Ada Health)
ChatGPT has been entertaining and amazing the world in the last month, and there’s no shortage of ideas and new inspiration about what AI could do for healthcare. In a short series of three episodes, we will touch upon this topic from three…
Healthcare in 2033: “You can only disrupt healthcare in a non-disruptive way” (Mark Coticchia, Baptist Health)
We tend to be very good at overestimating what can happen in a year and underestimating what can happen in a decade. At the last mHealth Israel Conference in Tel Aviv, Mark Coticchia, who is the Innovation, Technology Commercialization, and…
How Can We Improve Mental Health of Students and Young Adults? (Timely MD, Iris Telehealth)
This episode is the second about the evolution of mental health companies. In the previous episode, you could listen to Katie Di Perna Cook - SVP of Partnerships at Headspace Health, and today, we’re continuing the topic with Luke Hejlgl, C…
Building Mental Health Resilience (Katie DiPerna Cook, Headspace Health)
The pandemic has significantly increased the need for mental healthcare and destigmatized discussing well-being and mental health issues in everyday conversation. Unfortunately, the number of quality providers of mental health services is s…
EIT HEalth Germany-Switzerland Ep. 10: How do AI and VR improve eye care?
If someone told you to get an eye exam, would you associate that with a virtual reality headset? It might be where ophthalmology diagnostics will end up in the near future. Compared to the existing diagnostics tools, a VR approach is much m…
Blockchain and Web3 in 2022: Where Are We? (John Bass, Hashed Industries)
Last year, one of the key buzzwords in healthcare was virtual care; in 2020 it was probably telemedicine. In 2019 it was AI, in 2017 and 2018, it was blockchain in interoperability. There are many others of course, and many of these terms a…
EIT Health Germany-Switzerland Ep. 9: What expectations should we have in regard to the European Health Data Space?
The European Health Data Space is supposed to be implemented in a bit more than two years, by 2025. Two goals are at the forefront: to create the infrastructure for a European health data pool for researchers and innovators, and secondly, t…
Did The Risk of Becoming a Nurse Become Too Great in the US?
Nurses play a key role in patient care, but their contribution to patient outcomes is often undervalued and underappreciated. It took a pandemic to create a major shift in their job opportunities and power to negotiate. Many nurses left the…
HLTH Recap: From health disparities, sexual health, and patient experience as the key tool for improved patient outcomes
Between 13 and 16 November, HLTH, the largest digital health conference with over 9000 attendees, took place in Las Vegas. Over 400 speakers discussed the current trends and challenges in the industry. This short episode recaps some of the …
Global State of Digital Health presented at HLTH
Finn Partners and Galen growth Asia partnered for a global overview of the digital health investment landscape. More than 200M data points from more than 12,000 digital health ventures worldwide were taken into account when assessing the st…
Connecting Startups With Pharma and Healthcare Providers
For new ideas and solutions to reach the market, startup founders need to find the right partners that are willing to listen to them and take their ideas one step further. Established in 2015, the Health Innovation Hub & Holding provide…
How Are Shared Care Records Becoming a Reality in London? (Gary McAllister)
In the previous episode, you had a chance to listen to Dr Phil Koczan, GP in North East London and the Chief Clinical Safety Officer for London, Dr Katherine Buxton, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine for Imperial College Healthcare NHS…
How Did London Digitize Urgent Care Plans?
Too often, patients need to repeat their medical history when in contact with different healthcare providers. Consequently, clinicians need more time to make decisions than necessary because they can’t access patient data. London managed to…
Cancer Series Ep. 5: Digital Strategy of The Largest Single-Site Cancer Center in Europe
Medical progress is driven by research, and good research requires good data. The largest single-site cancer center in Europe and the biggest chemotherapy center in the UK - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust runs 650 clinical trials at any …
Cancer Series Ep. 4: Cancer is Gone, What Happens Next?
We are in the middle of a series of discussions related to cancer care, treatment improvements, data management in oncology, and the promise of AI to find the right treatment for the right patient in the fastest possible manner. As mentione…