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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F029/Xpomet ep.1: How should medical education ...
Investments in digital health have been rising for the last few years, encouraging innovation in applications of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, analytics, and other latest technologies in healthcare. At the same time, the next generations of d...
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F028 Anaesthesiology and the challenge of chang...
Chris Johnson is a Children’s Anaesthetist with 30 years of experience in clinical practice. Chris was the medical lead for the healthcare IT transformation of the Perth Children’s Hospital in Australia, which was planned after the institution relocated ...
35 min
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F027 Can Malta be a gateway to the European mar...
The first episode of Faces of digital health offers a reflection on digital health in 2018, followed by a discussion on digital health in Malta. Because the country is small, the adoption of new solutions could be faster compared to bigger countries.
Ste...
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F026 Cancer and the healing power of storytelli...
In 2012, right after finishing his PhD in neurobiology, Martin Inderbitzin got a rare type of pancreatic cancer. He found his strength in another patient's story. Martin's doctor told him about another young man, who survived and was now skiing in the mo...
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F025 How to raise money in the digital health s...
What mistakes are entrepreneurs making? Why does the US seem like a better starting point compared to Europe in the early stages? How to look for support in the most initial stages of a company? In this episode: digital health investments and opportuniti...
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F024 Gene editing, gene therapies, and genome s...
In November 2018, Associated Press shocked the global medical community with a news from China: A Chinese researcher claimed that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies. He edited the genes of twins with CRISPR/Cas9 technology, with t...
34 min
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F023 Patient centricity: music for patients, ti...
In the broadest possible sense, patient centricity is a mental shift from WHAT is done for the patient in the healthcare system, to HOW things are done. The HOW may include the used technology but also includes the environment. Walter Werzowa - Austrian ...
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F022 Thoughts on AI, interoperability, and bett...
This episode is a recap of a few talks at 2018 Exponential Medicine. You will hear thoughts on interoperability, practical use of AI in enterprises, some bold ideas about the future medicine thanks to digital innovation by Vinod Khosla, and lucid thought...
25 min
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F021 What is the CDC doing with blockchain? (Ja...
In 2017 media started reporting on promising blockchain projects inside the US Center for Disease Control (CDC). The hopes are that blockchain could help decrease the burden of reporting of epidemics, antibiotic prescriptions and the opioid crisis in the...
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F020 Blockchain, value of data, and the role of...
An update on the current landscape of healthcare blockchain projects, when can we expect practical implications, what the role of legislation will be, and how genomics research, AI and blockchain make a good combination. Intrigued? Listen to Ray Dogum - ...
50 min
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F019 Will robots eradicate medication managemen...
The key topic of today’s episode is pharmacy related robots, which will be presented by Lea Dias - a pharmacist by profession, who now works predominately as an advisor for international hospitals looking to implement robotic hardware and EHR software so...
35 min
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F018 Can Bolivia become the global digital heal...
In 2014, Shafi Ahmed removed a tumor from the liver and bowel of a patient in what was the first operation streamed live online using Google Glass. The procedure to remove was watched live via computer or mobile phone by 13,000 surgical students, healthc...
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F017 How are nurses shaping healthcare? (Shawna...
Shawna Butler in an entrepreNURSE. She had a wide range of experiences in emergency medicine, cardiac, critical care, international medical flight transport, and workplace wellness. She is part of the Exponential Medicine where the focus is on the opport...
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F016 Why aren’t nurses included in innovation p...
Nurses and midwives account for nearly 50% of the health workforce. While being an important group of healthcare stakeholders, they are often overlooked, especially when talking about innovation. However, they are very innovative and creative. According ...
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F015 Education, health and how to raise indepen...
Esther Wojcicki is an accomplished journalist and a teacher with a very successful family. Her husband Stanley is Stanford University professor of physics and together three daughters: Susan (CEO of YouTube), Janet, a Fulbright-winning anthropologist, ep...
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F014 Big data, AI, and the meaning of communica...
John Nosta has been holding a strong position as the number one influencer in the digital health space for quite a few years. His career started in a research lab at Harvard Medical School, until he redirected his creative energy into marketing. About ...
36 min
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F013 What to expect from artificial intelligenc...
AI is the buzzword startups are very keen on using when describing their products. For decades, movies are full of ideas on what artificial intelligence could do in a positive and negative way. What is AI, deep learning or a simple algorithm? What is the...
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F012 How advanced is China in digital health? (...
In this episode, two Americans share their insight in the healthcare development of the land with 1,4 billion people. Bay McLaughlin, Forbes contributor on tech in China and the co-founder of Brinc.io, part incubator, part accelerator, part investment fu...
45 min
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F011 Will VR decrease drug expenditure? (Walter...
According to dr. Walter Greenleaf, behavioral neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University, interactive virtual environments significantly reduce pain from as much as 44% during the most painful procedures (ex: burn wo...
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F010 Can VR help treat addiction, PTSD, ADHD an...
Virtual reality has a long history. Its applications precede pure fun, by today, many therapies for medical purposes have been designed.
Virtual reality has many medical applications, which you can learn about from two experts featured in Facs of digita...
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F009: How actionable is precision medicine data...
The two largest determinants of health are the zip code and credit scores. What does that have to do with precision medicine and genetics?
Big data combined with AI hold a lot of hope on prevention and more effective disease treatments. The current reali...
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F008: How do sex, blockchain and medical anthro...
A sex hunting anthropologist walks into a mortgage finance institution and out into the world to lead health initiatives globally; this is the fascinating tale of Samson Williams’ health career journey.
Samson Williams is an entrepreneur and fintech guru...
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F007 The hype and the hope: blockchain in healt...
This is a recording of a panel discussion on blockchain in healthcare, which took place at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, during the Future for health conference at SXSW. You will hear about some interesting ongoing blockchain projects such as the C...
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F006* Rasu Shrestha at SXSW: “Healthcare should...
“Most startups are in a hurry, most of healthcare not so much. How do we deal with that?” was one of the first questions with which Rasu Shrestha, CIO at UPMC addressed his audience during the Future for health at SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. With t...
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F005 How to make employees value health? (Kathl...
In this episode, you will hear how Time Warner, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks and film and TV entertainment, is approaching employee health. Time Warner has more than 25.000 employees around the globe, ...
33 min