Digital Health: Fitting into Workflows
Digital Health Unfiltered
So you've finally contracted with a talented vendor making a high-tech new health gadget, and their device has gone through security review. Now you're ready for the hard part: training staff to enroll patients, monitor feeds, answer questions and perform maintenance.
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Listening in on Telemedicine
Digital Health Unfiltered
The audio and video from telehealth visits isn't recorded, let alone processed and analyzed. But new companies claim they can help with documenting & coding of virtual visits. And sentiment analysis may uncover useful data about patient and physician attitudes, satisfaction, and risk.
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Neuralink
Digital Health Unfiltered
Elon Musk's Neuralink technology can do some impressive things, and seems like a real boon to researchers. But Musk's predictions about treating brain disorders may just be hype. Tiffany, Nick, Natalya and Sudipto take a deeper look at brain implants today, and explore the medical (and consumer) future for wireless brain tech.
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Voice analysis for disease detection
Digital Health Unfiltered
With more people receiving virtual care (telemedicine), it makes sense to leverage advanced voice analysis techniques to diagnose diseases - from pulmonary hypertension to dementia to COVID-19.
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous Telemedicine
Digital Health Unfiltered
Most people still imagine telemedicine as a 2-way video conversation between a doctor and patient. But "asynchronous" care has also grown, offers some advantages, and may be better positioned to scale up during a pandemic.
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EHR + Big Tech
Digital Health Unfiltered
Epic plus Microsoft. Cerner with Amazon. Meditech and Google. Major EHR vendors are pairing off with big tech companies - for their cloud capabilities, and maybe more.
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Disparities & Digital Health
Digital Health Unfiltered
Health outcomes in the US for people of color were already worse before COVID-19; the pandemic laid bare further disparities, with higher infection rates and mortality in this population. But COVID also prompted broad usage of telemedicine, and maybe, new opportunities to address healthcare disparities. Natalya, Darryl and Ricardo join Nick to discuss the technology's potential, and pitfalls, as digital health is deployed to improve health access, quality and ultimately, outcomes.
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Healthcare AI: Promise and Peril
Digital Health Unfiltered
Electronic Health Records and clinical decision support has remained remarkably simple for decades; there's great potential (and need) for AI to guide clinicians on tougher questions of patient care. But these advanced techniques have their own limitations - sometimes quite insidious - that can lead to bad decisions and worse care. Nick, Sudipto and Darryl discuss the problem of bias in AI, and new ways to hopefully address it.
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Taking Your Medicine
Digital Health Unfiltered
Medication adherence is a growing part of digital health, aiming to promote patients actually taking their prescribed medications. With stakeholders including app and device developers, to Pharma, Insurance and hospital systems, there's increasing pressure to produce evidence that the tools work.
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What Might Have Been
Digital Health Unfiltered
We're big believers in the potential for technology to reshape healthcare delivery, and we've come across great digital health companies that really impress us. But sometimes, the timing just isn't right, or something just prevents a partnership from taking off.
info_outlineWe're big believers in the potential for technology to reshape healthcare delivery, and we've come across great digital health companies that really impress us. But sometimes, the timing just isn't right, or something just prevents a partnership from taking off.
In this episode Nick is joined by Darryl and Natalya - we each review a startup we loved, and think about what might have been.