Faces of Digital Health
Faces of Digital Health is a podcast about digital health, exploring how different healthcare systems adopt technologies in healthcare. Its aim is to satisfy curiosity about different cultures, identify barriers to success in different countries and finding answers and advice for accelerating the success of digital health entrepreneurs.
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F097 Digital health in South America 1/4: “Only...
After a special series about digital health in Asia and Africa covered in 2019, the upcoming four episodes will present speakers from South America. A shoutout goes to Unity Stoakes and Jennifer Hankin from Startup Health, which connected me to the speak...
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F096 Why can we be optimistic about the vaccine...
Glen de Vries is president of Medidata, the world’s largest platform for clinical research trial data. Medidata is working with several research groups working on the COVID-19 vaccine, including messenger RNA based vaccines in development by Moderna, whi...
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How did Germany accelerate the speed of the dig...
Germany is one of the European countries with higher healthcare expenditures. 11% of GDP goes to healthcare compared to the 9.6% European average. Patients can be covered under public health insurance, or if they earn more than 5000 euros monthly, they c...
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F094 How can we simplify regulation of digital ...
There are well over 300.000 digital health apps on the market. However, only a third of them have been updated in the last 18 months, says Liz Ashal Payne - CEO and Founder of ORCHA - a UK based organization with a mission to distribute validated apps to...
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F093 How does a doctor become a VC? (Benedict E...
Despite enjoying clinical practice, Benedict Evans still came to a point where he felt he is not passionate enough about what he does, and as a surgeon, he realized he enjoys talking to patients more than treating them when they are under anesthesia. He ...
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F092 How can blockchain bring back autonomy to ...
Leah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012 and now designed a solution that would empower doctors, make their credentialing easier which would simplify transitions from one hospital to the next one if ...
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F090 Nurses 4/4: All the aspects of community c...
This is the fourth episode in the short series about nurses who moved to entrepreneurship.
Mary Lou Ackerman is Vice President of Innovation and Digital Health with SE Health. Mary Lou is a founding member of SONSIEL (Society of Nursing Scientist, Inn...
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F089 Nurses 3/4: “If you leave nurses out of yo...
This is a third discussion in the short series about nurses going into entrepreneurship. Karmi Soder started working as a pediatric clinical care nurse in 1992. Today she is a skilled communicator with over 25 years of healthcare experience in clinical, ...
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F088 Nurses 2/4: Making healthcare holistic (Sh...
Sherezade Ruano is an Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse at Imperial College NHS Trust, Founder of RhythmiaBreath Medical Well-being programme and Co-Founder, CEO of RB Hub Digital Therapeutics. Passionate about the importance of mental wellbeing, stress and tr...
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F087 Nurses 1/4: Do you know what nurses do? (S...
2020 is the year of the nurse and the midwife. What do nurses actually do and why are they still a hidden innovation treasure in healthcare?
In this series consisting of discussions with nurse innovators, you will hear about:
What nurses actually do,
T...
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F086 TikTok 2/2: Interested in weird medical fa...
Karan Raj is a "veteran" in online education. He founded TheOSCEstation - an online medical education website with videos explaining different medical topics. TheOSCEstation primarily targets medical students and has been around on Youtube for several ye...
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F085 Tik tok 1/2: #MedicineExplained - doctors ...
There are three “laws” for successful TikTok posts: make people laugh, tell a personal story people can empathize with, or teach people something. Doctors use the platform to talk about their career paths; nurses use TikTok to record dancing routines dur...
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F084 Doctors in digital health 4/4: Mediquo: Wh...
This is the fourth and final episode of a short series of discussions with doctors that moved from full-time clinical practice to work in digital health. Guillem Serra is a serial entrepreneur coming from a family of doctors. His mother, father, grandfat...
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F083 Doctors in digital health 3/4: Connecting ...
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...
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F082 Doctors in digital health series 2/4: Mana...
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...
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F081 Doctors in digital health series 1/4: The ...
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...
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F080 How far are we with digitising mental heal...
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...
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S079 Women's health and the dream but real heal...
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 ...
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S078 DTx series 5/5: Diabetes clinical trials o...
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...
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F077 DTx series 4/5: Want to get rid of chronic...
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...
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F076 DTx series 3/5: Are you drinking? (Jamie M...
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...
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F75: Healthcare innovation financing in times o...
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 ...
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F074 Healthcare innovation financing in times o...
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 ...
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F073 DTx series 2/5: What's Pharma got to do wi...
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...
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F072 DTx series 1/5: How do DTx differ from med...
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...
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