Faces of digital health podcast — Faces of digital health

F056-F059 Digital health in Africa series (Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda)

Africa has 54 countries, that differ a lot in terms of their quality of health care, political situation, and innovation.

Country Profile, Healthcare PolicyTjasa ZajcNovember 30, 2019Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, South AFricaComment

F041–045 Digital health in Asia: China, India, South Korea, and Singapore

Asia is the second-largest digital health ecosystem in the world. 2018 ended with a record-breaking US 6.8B invested. According to IBC Asia, the digital health market is expected to reach $379 billion by 2024. How are digital health markets developing in India, China, Singapore and Korea?

F040 Slovenia: a country without copayments for drugs with a lively digital health community (Two-part episode)

Slovenia is a country of 2 million people, with a universal healthcare system, and quite a few success stories about digitization to share. One digitally unrelated thing patients in Slovenia can be grateful for is access to drugs.

F035 Estonia: To which extent does the digital infrastructure support healthcare? (Hannalore Taal)

Estonia has only 1,3 million people, but is famous worldwide for its digital governance. If you want, you can become an Estonian electronic resident and run your business from Estonia, regardless of your actual country of residence. Healthcare wise, 95% of healthcare data is in digital form, some of it supported with blockchain technology.

Country Profile, Healthcare PolicyTjasa ZajcApril 20, 2019Digital Health, Ehr, Estonia, Healthcare, Healthcare ItComment

Digital Health in Japan, China, Israel, Dubai, Germany, and Bolivia

This short recording offers a snippet of thoughts about digital healith in China, Japan, Germany, Dubai, Israel, Japan, and Bolivia.

F032 Tech advancements in surgery, VR and the healthcare crisis in Venezuela (Rafael Grossmann)

Rafael Grossmann is a Surgeon, Educator, Healthcare Futurist, known in the digital health community as the VR surgeon. Originally from Venezuela, Rafael has been practicing medicine in the US for more than 15 years.

Virtual Reality, Country Profile, DoctorsTjasa ZajcMarch 11, 2019Digital Health, Healthcare, Venezuelan Crisis, VRComment

F028 Anaesthesiology and the challenge of change management in hospitals (Chris Johnson…

During the planning of implementation requirements for the Perth Children’s Hospital, which took several years, Chris Johnson made sure to include in planning representatives of all the groups in the hospital, who would be affected most in the end — pharmacists, doctors and nurses.

In the end, around 40 people reviewed the implementation requirements and took part in meetings, where IT vendors were demoing their solutions.

Management, Country Profile, DoctorsTjasa ZajcJanuary 16, 2019Change Management, Healthcare, Healthcare It, HospitalComment

F027 Can Malta be a gateway to the European market? (Stefan Buttigieg)

Many European countries have various successful national eHealth implementation stories, with patients having access to their discharge letters, ePrescriptions, and some form of a personal health record. The success can partially be connected to the fact that the smaller the country, the easier it is to achieve connectivity.

Country ProfileTjasa ZajcJanuary 3, 2019Digital Health, Healthcare, Malta, StartupsComment

F018 Can Bolivia become the global digital health role model? (Shafi Ahmed)

Thanks to the invitation of Martin Dockweiler, President of Udabol University Bolivia, Shafi Ahmed will lead the new, latest technologies enhanced hospital in Bolivia. As he explains in the episode 18 of Faces of digital health podcast, the desire is to create a exemplary hospital, which would then be scaled to other locations as well.