Digital Health Unfiltered

Technology is transforming healthcare - and it's up to us to implement the change. Tune in weekly to hear our insights from the front lines of digital health.

Digital Health: Fitting into Workflows 12/16/2020

Digital Health: Fitting into Workflows 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/17213102

Listening in on Telemedicine 12/09/2020

Listening in on Telemedicine 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/17121968

Neuralink 12/01/2020

Neuralink 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/17025356

Voice analysis for disease detection 11/24/2020

Voice analysis for disease detection 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16941320

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Telemedicine 11/17/2020

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Telemedicine 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16851593

EHR + Big Tech 11/10/2020

EHR + Big Tech 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16759412

Disparities & Digital Health 11/03/2020

Disparities & Digital Health 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16669673

Healthcare AI: Promise and Peril 10/27/2020

Healthcare AI: Promise and Peril 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16567451

Taking Your Medicine 10/20/2020

Taking Your Medicine 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16478423

What Might Have Been 10/13/2020

What Might Have Been 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. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16381199

Getting the Message 10/06/2020

Getting the Message How should a patient get notified about a test result? How should a patient ask a question about those results? We know communication is critical to the doctor-patient interaction, but in digital health it's not as simple as it should be. The gang explores the complexity of digital health communication, and thinks about solutions. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16299476

Geek Squad 2020 10/01/2020

Geek Squad 2020 In our first episode, we dive into the world of remote patient monitoring, and specifically, what tech support needs to accomplish, when patients-generated health data isn't flowing to the care team. /episode/index/show/digitalhealth/id/16234187

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