Faces of Digital Health

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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How does remote patient monitoring look like in South Africa and Nigeria?
Faces of Digital HealthNovember 27, 202400:36:02

How does remote patient monitoring look like in South Africa and Nigeria?

Clinitouch, originating in the UK NHS, is expanding globally with a focus on chronic conditions and adapting to regional nuances in healthcare delivery. In this discussion several speakers discuss telemedicine in the context of Nigeria and South Africa. Speakers are: Bruce Adams, Commercial Director at Clinitouch (UK) Japie De Jongh, CEO, Synaxon (South Africa) Dr John Adesioye, CEO, Utopian Consu...

How can startups avoid failure? Listen better. (Laura Hilty)
Faces of Digital HealthNovember 19, 202400:17:12

How can startups avoid failure? Listen better. (Laura Hilty)

Laura Hilty has spent over 18 years working to improve the healthcare ecosystem, over 14 years of that in clinical research. She has held leadership roles spanning corporate strategy, M&A, product strategy, product management, and partnerships across stages from company start-up to scale, through Forte / Advarra and Epic. In this short discussion recorded at the Digital Health and AI Innovation Su...

The future of data in in collaboration among standards bodies (Rachel Dunscombe)
Faces of Digital HealthNovember 14, 202400:10:04

The future of data in in collaboration among standards bodies (Rachel Dunscombe)

This short discussion with Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of openEHR International Foundation, was recorded in Reading at the first openEHR Annual conference. Rachel Dunscombe discussed trends in data standards and the importance of structured data for the future development of AI. Recap of the discussion: Historical Context and Progress in Data Standards: Thirty years ago, the "Good European Healthcare Re...

Zayna Khayat: Language, Mindset and the Future of Care
Faces of Digital HealthNovember 11, 202400:30:07

Zayna Khayat: Language, Mindset and the Future of Care

In this discussion, strategist, and applied health futurist Zayna Khayat explores the evolution of healthcare, particularly the shift towards home-based care and patient empowerment. Key themes include: Language in Healthcare: Khayat stresses the need for a language shift to change mindsets in healthcare, highlighting that words shape reality. She proposes retiring overused terms like “innovation,...

How Patients Use AI (Grace Vinton, Grace Cordovano)
Faces of Digital HealthNovember 03, 202400:19:08

How Patients Use AI (Grace Vinton, Grace Cordovano)

Grace Cordovano is an expert healthcare navigating solutionist and award winning, board-certified patient advocate, and Grace Vinton is an account director at Amendola, Patient Advocate, and the host of Like a Girl Media's Podcast "HITea With Grace”. In this discussion, recorded at Digital Health and AI Summit in Boston, they discussed AI use cases for improved patient experience in healthcare, ho...

Gary Monk on DTx and Common Sense in Analysing Wellness Data From Apps and Wearables
Faces of Digital HealthOctober 23, 202400:17:16

Gary Monk on DTx and Common Sense in Analysing Wellness Data From Apps and Wearables

In this episode Gary Monk, independent consultant with over 25 years in the pharma and healthcare sectors where he worked in roles from R&D to business IT and strategic marketing, talks about the current state of digital therapeutics, remote patient monitoring, the potential of AI in healthcare, and the challenges with data integration. He also shares his personal insights on the use of wearables ...

How Successful Digital Intervention Can Be in Mental Health?
Faces of Digital HealthOctober 21, 202400:20:35

How Successful Digital Intervention Can Be in Mental Health?

If social media and smartphones are the root cause of the new mental health epidemic in younger generations, how successful can digital interventions be in addressing mental health issues? In this discussion, recorded at Digital Health and AI Innovation Summit in Boston in October, Katherine Wolfe-Lyga, Mental health professional and former college administrator, Vice President at BetterMynd, disc...

What is Impact Investing and Why You Should Consider Patenting Your Ideas (Michael Friebe)
Faces of Digital HealthOctober 07, 202400:40:12

What is Impact Investing and Why You Should Consider Patenting Your Ideas (Michael Friebe)

In this episode of Faces of Digital Health, Michael, an experienced innovator with over 80 patents and a professor in multiple countries, joins to discuss the future of digital health. The conversation dives deep into the concepts of innovation, patent strategies, and the challenges in digital health funding. Michael shares his insights on current investment trends, the future of healthcare, and t...

Where is Healthcare IT in Europe in 2024? (Tomaz Gornik)
Faces of Digital HealthOctober 03, 202400:49:09

Where is Healthcare IT in Europe in 2024? (Tomaz Gornik)

Better is a healthcare IT provider of a healthcare data platform, low-code tools that help healthcare organisations to rapidly build applications that suit their specific need and hospital medication management software, working across 20 markets. In this episode, based on 30+ years of experience, Tomaz Gornik, CEO of Better explained: - what is a data platform in healthcare, - what motivates vend...