Season 13

How Copenhagen Uses AI and Digital Care to Support an Aging Population
Faces of Digital HealthApril 17, 202600:30:35

How Copenhagen Uses AI and Digital Care to Support an Aging Population

This episode explores how Denmark’s 2024 health reform is accelerating an already mature digital health ecosystem, with a special focus on Copenhagen’s municipality-led elderly and community care services. Speakers Anders Elken Sønderby and Rikke Saltoft Andersen from City of Copenhagen, explain how the reform responds to demographic pressures: a growing elderly population, increasing chronic dise...

Do We Need to Address the Unofficial/Shadow AI Use Among Clinicians?
Faces of Digital HealthMarch 03, 202600:26:24

Do We Need to Address the Unofficial/Shadow AI Use Among Clinicians?

How is AI actually changing the day-to-day life of a clinician? In this episode, we sit down at the Smart Bridges GmbH Digital Health Excellence Forum in Frankfurt with Dimitri Varsamis PhD, Senior Programme Manager, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Georgi Nalbantov, PhD, Chief AI Officer at Hospital Zdraveto. They covered the impact of AI on the clinical workforce: 🎯 The Adminis...

Voice tech and AI: Is Detecting Diseases Based on 45 s of Voice Accurate? (Henry O'Connell)
Faces of Digital HealthJanuary 22, 202601:10:24

Voice tech and AI: Is Detecting Diseases Based on 45 s of Voice Accurate? (Henry O'Connell)

Ambient documentation is becoming normal in clinics. But the most interesting “voice” capability may not be transcription at all.In the latest episode of Faces of Digital Health, Henry O'Connell (Canary Speech) explains why voice biomarkers stalled for decades: the field analyzed words, not the neurological signal behind speech production.Canary’s approach focuses on the “primary data layer”—how t...

Robots and Healthcare: A Solution for Caregiving Shortage? (Tanja Ahlin)
Faces of Digital HealthJanuary 05, 202600:53:14

Robots and Healthcare: A Solution for Caregiving Shortage? (Tanja Ahlin)

The conversation explores the impact of robots on mental health and their role in healthcare. Anthropologist Tanja Ahlin and Faces of digital health host Tjasa Zajc discuss the fascination with robots, the ambiguous identity of robots, their use in elder care, the challenges of integrating robots, the global perspective on robots, and the misconceptions and realities of robots. The conversation ex...