As part of the December 2021 series of discussions with inspiring people in healthcare and digital health, this episode presents Claire Murigande - Medical Affairs Expert, TEDx speaker and the host of Narratives of purpose podcast.
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Marie Johnson talks about healthcare in Australia, how can we make AI solutions such as coaches more human, and her thoughts regarding the future development of AI for healthcare.
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This short series explores the state of healthcare IT and digital health in Finland, Norway, Denmark, and on a broader scale. The topics addressed include national healthcare infrastructures, access to healthcare, care for the elderly, and more.
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Malta is a country of half a million people, a nationally-funded NHS, and a vibrant digital health community that will host the MedTech World Summit in November.
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End of August, Days of eHealth were organised as part of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of EU. Among other presentations were panel discussions about healthcare digitalization practices in Germany, Catalonia, Israel and Finland.
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Taiwan spends only 6.4% of it’s GDP for healthcare, but has high satisfaction rates with healthcare, and is also very digitalized. Taiwan was successful and an exemplary country at managing the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and later experienced a huge wave of infections in 2021. What happened?
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Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal (CIUSSS West-Central Montreal) covers 345,000 people, with a staff of over 12,000 and over 600 doctors. In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Connected Health Innovation Hub inside the network was formed to further leverage technologies and innovation for increased healthcare improvement and sustainability.
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Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy in the US cite medical issues as one of the main factors to their financial downfall. Part of the reason is the healthcare costs structure that has shifted towards patients, says Ric Sinclair, the Chief Strategy and Product Officer of Waystar.
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4 digital health Japanese startups, directly and indirectly, addressing healthy aging.
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AI is complex and when introduced to the clinical practice, adoption is anything but easy. “On the one hand, there's the hype machine that provides these very extravagant articles about magical things that you can do it with AI. Then there's the reality of what can be achieved and what can be done. At Hacarus we’re addressing this with a training program for the medical industry, which we call the Hacarus AI Academy. This is a full course program, where we train doctors, medical professionals, researchers in pharmaceutical companies, the basics of how to work with AI. “
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Dr. Dimitri Varsamis is Senior Policy Lead for digital primary care at NHS England. End of 2020 he published a report titled Incentives and levers for digitising and integrating primary care in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA - lessons for the UK’s NHS. Dr. Varsamis researched primary care digitalisation prior to the global coronavirus pandemic.
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New Zealand is not a very large country so one might think digitalization of the healthcare system shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. On the contrary, it is far from simple because of the complex and fragmented healthcare system design.
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Australia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health.
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Sanitas is the leading Spanish health insurance and service provider and have been devoted exclusively to health care for more than 60 years. The Sanitas’ Cima hospital in Barcelona is an exemplar in digital innovation adoption.
Even before COVID, an innovation platform was established which seeks to promote entrepreneurship among employees. Another platform is in place, that aims to attract startup talent in areas such as prevention and genomics, liquid hospital, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data & analytics, and robotics.
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Chronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromorphic (bio-mimetic) algorithm, HOTS (Hierarchy Of event-based Time-Surfaces). The algorithm detects and predicts deterioration in patients’ state of health and alerts caregivers to allow earlier intervention and avoid costly hospitalizations.
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Episode 101 highlights some of the thoughts about digital health development and factors impacting innovation and solutions design across the world: Venezuela, India, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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What is the state of healthcare in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia? Four presented digital health startups are improving access too health, health data management for healthcare providers, cancer management, and genomics advancements.
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When Jens Spahn became the health minister In March 2018, Germany quickly became the European Northern star of accelerated healthcare digitization. What exactly happened?
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Guillem Serra comes from a family of doctors and studied medicine himself, but saw that everyday routine doctors operate under is too repetitive for his taste. He decided against becoming a traditional doctor and created a platform connecting patients to doctors in a healthcare regulation-compliant way. MediQuo is a leading eHealth app in Spain and Latin America
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As of 2017 healthcare is the leading category of the 78,5 billion in consumer debt collected each year, which is more than 40 times the size of credit card debt. While the number of uninsured is reducing, it is being replaced with the issue of underinsurance. 3 in 10 people reported costs caused them not to take their medicines as prescribed in the past year, writes law professor Christopher T. Robertson in his last book Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It.
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