How Telehospitalists Are Expanding Capacity and Coverage for Hospitals with Dr. Claire Smith SCP Health TRANSCRIPT
Release Date: 08/25/2026
Role of Cloud Fax in Fast and Secure Healthcare Messaging with Marcus Ionker Retarus TRANSCRIPT
Empowered Patient Podcast
Marcus Ionker, Product Line Manager and Messaging Evangelist at Retarus, which is a cloud-based transactional electronic messaging service provider offering fax, SMS, email, and logistics services to regulated industries like healthcare. By moving fax to the cloud, Retarus helps providers and payers reduce administrative costs, improve patient services, and comply with privacy regulations. The company is addressing the critical challenge of providing reliable, secure, and fast messaging to replace outdated physical fax machines and to eliminate paper-based processes in favor of digital...
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Role of Cloud Fax in Fast and Secure Healthcare Messaging with Marcus Ionker Retarus
Empowered Patient Podcast
Marcus Ionker, Product Line Manager and Messaging Evangelist at Retarus, which is a cloud-based transactional electronic messaging service provider offering fax, SMS, email, and logistics services to regulated industries like healthcare. By moving fax to the cloud, Retarus helps providers and payers reduce administrative costs, improve patient services, and comply with privacy regulations. The company is addressing the critical challenge of providing reliable, secure, and fast messaging to replace outdated physical fax machines and to eliminate paper-based processes in favor of digital...
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Disease-Modifying Allogeneic Treatment for Chronic Sciatica with Andrew Hall Consano Bio TRANSCRIPT
Empowered Patient Podcast
Andrew Hall, CEO of Consano Bio, is developing an allogeneic approach to treat chronic sciatica by activating healing in damaged spinal nerves, emulating the natural healing properties of human platelets. This condition currently has no approved treatments and is managed through symptomatic approaches like opioids, muscle relaxers, or surgery. Consano Bio's lead candidate represents the first potential disease-modifying therapy for pain management and can be manufactured at scale to treat the estimated 10 million Americans affected by this condition. Andrew explains, "We are developing...
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Disease-Modifying Allogeneic Treatment for Chronic Sciatica with Andrew Hall Consano Bio
Empowered Patient Podcast
Andrew Hall, CEO of Consano Bio, is developing an allogeneic approach to treat chronic sciatica by activating healing in damaged spinal nerves, emulating the natural healing properties of human platelets. This condition currently has no approved treatments and is managed through symptomatic approaches like opioids, muscle relaxers, or surgery. Consano Bio's lead candidate represents the first potential disease-modifying therapy for pain management and can be manufactured at scale to treat the estimated 10 million Americans affected by this condition. Andrew explains, "We are developing...
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How Real-Time Location Data and AI Improve Utilization of Clinic Exam Rooms with Isobel Handler Kontakt io TRANSCRIPT
Empowered Patient Podcast
Isobel Handler, Senior Director of Product Management at Kontakt.io addresses critical inefficiencies in clinical exam room utilization. By capturing data about staff-patient interactions and facility usage, the Kontakt.io platform incorporates real-time location data to optimize patient access, reduce waiting time, and improve staff safety. The solution helps healthcare organizations understand their current capacity utilization before investing in new facilities and supports integration of digital tools to include virtual visits and asychronous communication to better serve patients...
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How Real-Time Location Data and AI Improve Utilization of Clinic Exam Rooms with Isobel Handler Kontakt io
Empowered Patient Podcast
Isobel Handler, Senior Director of Product Management at Kontakt.io addresses critical inefficiencies in clinical exam room utilization. By capturing data about staff-patient interactions and facility usage, the Kontakt.io platform incorporates real-time location data to optimize patient access, reduce waiting time, and improve staff safety. The solution helps healthcare organizations understand their current capacity utilization before investing in new facilities and supports integration of digital tools to include virtual visits and asychronous communication to better serve patients...
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Treating Dysfunction of Resistance Arteries to Restore Blood Flow with Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz QanatPharma TRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, Founder of QanatPharma, emphasizes the critical role of resistance arteries, microscopic blood vessels that regulate blood flow and pressure throughout the body, in maintaining organ function. Due to their size, these resistance arteries have been overlooked but with new lab techniques, QP is discovering how their dysfunction contributes to heart failure, cognitive impairment and strokes. The company's lead candidate is a repurposed drug already approved for cystic fibrosis that shows promise in restoring brain blood flow and cognitive function in heart failure...
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Treating Dysfunction of Resistance Arteries to Restore Blood Flow with Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz QanatPharma
Empowered Patient Podcast
Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, Founder of QanatPharma, emphasizes the critical role of resistance arteries, microscopic blood vessels that regulate blood flow and pressure throughout the body, in maintaining organ function. Due to their size, these resistance arteries have been overlooked but with new lab techniques, QP is discovering how their dysfunction contributes to heart failure, cognitive impairment and strokes. The company's lead candidate is a repurposed drug already approved for cystic fibrosis that shows promise in restoring brain blood flow and cognitive function in heart failure...
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Drug Inhibits Epigenetic Enzyme To Treat Leukemia and Neuropsychiatric Disorders with Carlos Buesa Oryzon Genomics TRANSCRIPT
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Carlos Buesa, CEO of Oryzon Genomics, specializes in developing precision medicine based on epigenetics, the regulatory mechanisms that control gene expression without altering the DNA. A key target is the LSD1 enzyme which regulates cell differentiation and is a factor in acute myeloid leukemia and CNS disorders. LSD1 inhibition addresses a fundamental insight that the same dysregulated epigenetic genes implicated in leukemia also drive various neruopsychiatric and genetic syndromes suggesting a unified mechanistic understanding of diverse diseases. Carlos explains, "Epigenetics has...
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Drug Inhibits Epigenetic Enzyme To Treat Leukemia and Neuropsychiatric Disorders with Carlos Buesa Oryzon Genomics
Empowered Patient Podcast
Carlos Buesa, CEO of Oryzon Genomics, specializes in developing precision medicine based on epigenetics, the regulatory mechanisms that control gene expression without altering the DNA. A key target is the LSD1 enzyme which regulates cell differentiation and is a factor in acute myeloid leukemia and CNS disorders. LSD1 inhibition addresses a fundamental insight that the same dysregulated epigenetic genes implicated in leukemia also drive various neruopsychiatric and genetic syndromes suggesting a unified mechanistic understanding of diverse diseases. Carlos explains, "Epigenetics has...
info_outlineDr. Claire Smith, a regional medical officer at SCP Health and a practicing hospitalist in Missouri, highlights how virtual hospitalists are transforming healthcare by providing 24/7 physician collaboration to support onsite teams, particularly in rural hospitals and during patient surges. Implementing telehospitalists can play a critical role in reducing clinician burnout, improving access to physician expertise, and enhancing emergency department efficiency. Integrating telehospitalists into a care model shows potential to reshape workforce demographics and improve the ability to meet unpredictable demands.
Claire explains, "So a hospitalist is typically an internal medicine or family medicine-trained physician who focuses the entirety of their career on hospital medicine. So, taking care of hospitalized patients. They are focused on the end-to-end experience of a patient who is hospitalized. So they are integral in the admission from the emergency department, from the time it is determined the patient needs care within the hospital to the time that they are discharged to their next site of care, whether that be home, a skilled nursing facility, etc. So hospitalists do not focus on outpatient medicine. They collaborate with primary care physicians and care for hospitalized patients."
"And what we are seeing is that we are now integrating virtual hospitalists or telehospitalists into workflows to support teams in a variety of situations, including resource shortages or temporary surges in the patient population, so that we can best support the onsite teams and patients."
"What we see is that telehospitalists are being utilized when demands exceed onsite capacities, as well as in those rural situations where resources are more scarce. So a telehospitalist changes the dynamic from really an occasional ad hoc contact with advanced practitioners who may be supporting rural practice hospital medicine to reliable collaboration."
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