Faces of Digital Health
Faces of Digital Health is a healthcare podcast about digital health technology, solutions, and innovations in practice, presented through real healthcare systems and the people behind them. The show looks into how different countries adopt digital health, what barriers they face, and why similar approaches succeed in some places but not others.
Episodes feature clinicians, patients, entrepreneurs, and health system leaders sharing their practical experience. The focus is on digital health trends, practical digital health, and actionable insights for anyone curious about how digital health works in practice.
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F126 How is Tradition Hindering Health Litera...
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F125 Amazon in Healthcare, AI Related Dispariti...
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F124 AgeTech 4/4: How would you choose to die? ...
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F123 AgeTech Series 3/4: Boosting Empathy In Ge...
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F122 AgeTech Series 2/4: Algorithm-based Matchm...
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F 121 AgeTech Series 1/4: Healthcare and techno...
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F120 A Glimpse Into Japan and How to Introduce ...
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F119 How are technologies improving global publ...
Book discussion: Technology and Global Public Health
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F118 Healthcare is Diverse. Why Is Healthtech I...
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...
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F117 How Music Beats Got a Breakthrough Device ...
Music can change our mood, energize ur, make us feel invincible.
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F116 Medication Management Goes Beyond Pill Re...
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...
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F115 Primary care digitalisation in New Zealand...
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...
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F114 “My hope is we will mispronounce COVID in ...
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...
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F 113 Predictions about 2021 (and beyond) by di...
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...
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F112 How is regenerative medicine disrupting th...
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...
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F111 The full circle in telemedicine - adding h...
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...
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F110 "Patient records on the blockchain are sti...
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...
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109 How digitally healthy is New Zealand? (Scot...
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,...
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F108 What's the value of telehealth consultatio...
In this episode, you will hear a discussion with Julian Flannery - the CEO of. Summus Global. Summus global provides access to specialists and physicians from across the world. The company has a network of over 4,000 specialists and physicians from 48 ho...
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F107 AI driven health insurance (Rajeev Ronanki...
Rajeev Ronanki is Chief Digital Officer at Anthem, which is striving to become a digital AI-first enterprise. In September Anthem launched a digital incubator where companies can test their solutions on Anthem’s anonymized data. Among other things Rajeev...
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F106 VRx book discussion: What 5000 studies tau...
We are in the middle of an unprecedented time of anxiety, depression and worries because of the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s affecting people’s jobs, a sense of security, and relative predictability, consequently our relationships and health, especi...
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Australia: The state of healthcare digitalizati...
Australia was in the global digital health-related news in 2018 of the national EHR project called My Health Record. The idea behind the project was to digitize the medical records of all the people from Australia. Today, 9 out of 10 Australians have My ...
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F104 Digital health in Spain and what is the co...
Spain has a universal healthcare system, where anyone that pays social security contributions is eligible for healthcare. From the digitalization perspective, Spain does not have a national institution to coordinate digital health projects. Instead, each...
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F103 How are smart garments making remote patie...
Chronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromorphic (bio-mimetic) algorithm, HOTS (Hierarchy Of event-ba...
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F102 How are connected health devices becoming ...
Do you remember the first connected scale? It came to the market in 2009 by a French company called Withings. By today the company created a number of connected health devices and is increasing its efforts to expand its presence in the clinical space.
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