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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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...
26 min
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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...
40 min
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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...
43 min
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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...
56 min
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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,...
51 min
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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...
39 min
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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...
43 min
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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...
50 min
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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 ...
44 min
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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...
35 min
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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...
34 min
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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. Wi...
33 min
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F101 A collection of thoughts about digital hea...
This episode is a collection of thoughts giving you a glimpse into the global digital health market. Leave a rating or a review: https://lovethepodcast.com/facesofdigitalhealth Speakers: Dr. Daniel Kraft, one of the top opinion leaders in digital heal...
20 min
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F100 Digital health in South America 4/4: Venez...
This is the 4th part of a short series about healthcare and digital health in South America. Venezuela is a country in the current severe turmoil because of a political crisis that also turned into a medical crisis. At the beginning of 2019, the governme...
45 min
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F099 Digital health in South America 3/4: Brazi...
This is the third episode of the short series about digital health in South America. In the previous episodes you could listen to Adrian Turjanski from an Argentinian genomics company there called Bitgenia, another speaker came from Colombia - Javier Car...
37 min
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F098 Digital Health in South America 2/4: Colom...
When Googling the Colombian healthcare system, there’s mostly praise about how good it is! The World Health Organization ranked Colombia’s healthcare system as number 22 in a review of 191 countries. Javier Cardona is the CEO of 1DOC3 - a Colombian compa...
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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...
38 min
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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...
43 min
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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...
30 min
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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...
39 min
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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 ...
29 min
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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 ...
41 min
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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...
52 min
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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, ...
52 min
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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...
45 min