Crista Galli Ventures Fund is especially attentive to giving an opportunity to founder with under-represented backgrounds. The fund was founded by Dr. Fiona Pathiraja who is a radiologist by training.
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There are a number of players that are trying to disrupt the pharmacy market. Companies such as GoodRx, RxSaver and now Amazon Pharmacy are starting to bring pricing transparency in the field. The Amazon Prime prescription savings benefit can save members up to 80% off generic and 40% off brand name medications when paying without insurance. Truepill is offering healthcare players a fast way to digital transformation.
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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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ORCHA offers app providers a review that gives them oversight of their compliance with different jurisdictions. So far, over 6000 apps have been reviewed. ORCHA, which operates in 6 countries in Europe, New Zealand and UAE, uses 300 data points in their review process.
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Despite enjoying clinical practice, Benedict Evans still came to a point where he felt he is not passionate enough about what he does, and as a surgeon, he realized he enjoys talking to patients more than treating them when they are under anesthesia. He went to a consulting position at McKinsey, then back to an NHS Trust to drive digital innovation and now to a VC position.
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Leah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012. When a hospital she used to work for stole her identity for fraud billing, she decided to design a blockchain-based solution that would prevent such abuses from happening to any doctor in the future.
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In this series with Shawna Butler, Sherezade Ruano, Karmi Soder and Mary Lou Ackerman, you will hear about what nurses actually do, the changing role of nurses in healthcare, relationship nurses have with technology — IT systems, new innovations, why they should be at the policymaking table.
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TikTok is an increasingly popular platform without an age limit of the audience and creators. 15 to 60-second videos offer audience information, challenge them to dance, or just take user’s minds off every day worries. All sorts of professionals are using TikTok to build their brand or just have a little bit of fun. Medical workers are no exception.
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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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Many doctors leave full-time medical practice to become entrepreneurs. Many of them do that to solve systemic issues plaguing healthcare. This series includes four doctors from the US, UK and Spain, Daniel Kraft, Michael Docktor, Owain Rhys Hughes and Guillem Serra explain their experiences with healthcare IT during their clinical practice, and their motivation to develop technological solutions for healthcare.
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On 9 April 2020 Healthday.si and Faces of digital health organised a webinar, supported by Project Arte and Technology Park Ljubljana, about the effects of COVID-19 on health tech funding. Tune in to hear from Nana Bit-Avragim (Germany), Levi Shapiro Israel), Giovanni Loser, investor (Italy), Blaž Triglav, healthcare executive (Slovenia).
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When Europe became the new epicentre of the Covid-19 spread, and with the steady rise of infected in the US, tech companies offered their knowledge to curb the pandemic: from Covid-19 apps, the rise of telemedicine use in the US, 3D printing in Italy and more efforts to curb the Coronavirus crisis.
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“Research shows that if you show up overconfident you have 58% better chance of getting hired. Your demeanour really matters it needs to support the verbal message. Voice, tone and body language present 93% of information absorbed by the listeners, only 7% are words. If voice, the tone is not aligned with the message, you are in trouble,” says Beth.
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Building communities is time-consuming and demands special soft skills. Aline Noizet is a digital health connector with rich experiences of building and getting to know communities in digital health.
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Hacking health encourages collaboration of different stakeholders in healthcare and inclusion of professionals such as designers, programmers and technical specialists in early stages of problem-solving.
As a non-profit organisation, Hacking Health is supported by volunteers in each active city, where they catalize collaboration between universities, tech hubs, patients and medical organisations.
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What are the common mistakes in fundraising? Why does the US seem like a better starting point compared to Europe for early-stage companies? How to look for support in the initial phase of a company?
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Nurses and midwives account for nearly 50% of the health workforce. Despite their significance in the healthcare system, they are often overlooked, especially when talking about innovation.
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Communication of ideas is of significant importance for the success of a product, yet often times, companies struggle with it. As John Nosta observes, many innovators are tremendously hampered by the ability of the marketplace to absorb or understand that innovation.
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