Season 11

How to Identify High-Quality Digital Health Apps: The DIME Seal Explained
Faces of Digital HealthFebruary 14, 202500:35:33

How to Identify High-Quality Digital Health Apps: The DIME Seal Explained

This episode of Faces of Digital Health explores how digital health solutions can be evaluated for quality and reliability. Tjasa Zajc speaks with Vice President of Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Doug Mirsky and Boston Children’s Hospital SVP and Chief Innovation Officer John Brownstein about the DIME Seal, a certification designed to help hospitals and clinicians identify trustworthy digital hea...

OneLondon: Building a Connected Health Ecosystem for 10 Million People
Faces of Digital HealthFebruary 05, 202500:30:37

OneLondon: Building a Connected Health Ecosystem for 10 Million People

OneLondon—an ambitious project working to provide a single patient care record for 10 million people across London. Since its inception in 2018, OneLondon has evolved, connecting more healthcare providers, expanding patient access, and tackling critical challenges like end-of-life care, sickle cell disease management, and mental health crisis response. In this episode, Luke Readman, Director of Di...

How is Italy digitalizing healthcare in its 20 regions?
Faces of Digital HealthJanuary 14, 202500:33:38

How is Italy digitalizing healthcare in its 20 regions?

The discussion explores the current landscape of healthcare digitalization in Italy, emphasizing the fragmented regional approach, challenges with interoperability, and the recent strides toward a unified electronic health record (EHR). The guest, Marco Foracchia, CIO of Local Health Unit in Emilia Region, IRCCS sheds light on regional disparities, opportunities for improvement, and strategies for...

How does an acquisition look like from a startup founder and investor perspective?
Faces of Digital HealthJanuary 07, 202500:36:21

How does an acquisition look like from a startup founder and investor perspective?

David Buller is a Founding Partner at Ascension Life Fund and exited founder of Avantec Healthcare. With his extensive experience of both raising and investing money in digital health he shared insights into: 🎯 Strategic positioning for acquisitions in digital health 🎯 Lessons from selling a healthcare company 🎯 Role of venture capitalists (VCs) in supporting startups 🎯 Current and emerging tr...

Holiday Edition: Future Trends in Digital Health & AI (Daniel Kraft, Lucien Engelen, Zayna Khayat)
Faces of Digital HealthDecember 24, 202400:44:24

Holiday Edition: Future Trends in Digital Health & AI (Daniel Kraft, Lucien Engelen, Zayna Khayat)

In this special holiday edition of Faces of Digital Health, healthcare futurist and strategist Zayna Khayat, futurist and founder of NextMed Health Daniel Kraft and digital health expert, CEO of Transform.health Lucien Engelen discuss key trends in digital health and AI. The panel also touches on the role of new players in the health space like supermarkets and tech giants, the importance of preve...

How can healthcare companies improve their marketing? (Dr James Somauroo)
Faces of Digital HealthDecember 16, 202400:45:10

How can healthcare companies improve their marketing? (Dr James Somauroo)

In this episode James Somauroo, Host of The Healthtech Podcast and CEO of SomX, a PR and content agency specializing in healthcare and biotech. They dive into the challenges healthcare companies face in public relations, the role of content marketing, and actionable advice for founders and organizations at different stages of growth. From crafting a messaging house to building trust with clinician...

How will health AI assurance labs look like and who will pay for assessments?
Faces of Digital HealthDecember 10, 202400:30:15

How will health AI assurance labs look like and who will pay for assessments?

Several organizations are thinking about the right way to regulate AI and the idea of assurance labs which would test and validate AI solutions in the US healthcare is taking shape. This was the topic we discussed with Brian Anderson - CEO of the coalition for Health AI or CHAI: how will assurance labs look like, how much will assessments cost, who will pay for them, and how will AI “nutrition lab...

How Can Hospitals Advance Their Digital Transformation With HIMSS Maturity Models?
Faces of Digital HealthDecember 03, 202401:00:31

How Can Hospitals Advance Their Digital Transformation With HIMSS Maturity Models?

HIMSS, The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems. One way of helping hospitals advance their digitalization efforts is with the help of maturity models. These are assessment ques...

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...