About the podcast
Founded in 2017, Faces of Digital Health is a distinguished podcast dedicated to exploring the diversity of healthcare systems and innovations worldwide. Each episode features discussions with policy makers, experts, and entrepreneurs, challenging prevailing assumptions about the current state of healthcare innovation.
The show was recognized as one of the "Fifty Most Impactful Tech Innovators in Digital Healthcare" by Medika in 2021, top healthcare podcast according to Hyro in 2022, and still ranks among the top 100 healthcare and medicine podcasts on Goodpods in 2024, and is among the 11 recommended health tech podcasts on digital.heath.
In addition to the podcast, Faces of Digital Health has expanded its reach with a monthly newsletter launched in July 2022, offering comprehensive insights into emerging trends and key takeaways from major healthcare events. Since 2023, the podcast has also been delivering compelling video reports from industry events on LinkedIn, with an extensive archive available on the YouTube channel. Highlights include:
A feature on the 2023 HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipients, focusing on diversity and inclusion.
A conversation with Rasu Shrestha at NextMed Health 2023, exploring the groundbreaking partnership between Advocate Health and Best Buy.
An exclusive interview from Ljubljana with Jody Tropeano and Henry Stoneley from HLTH, discussing innovations in the US and Europe end of 2023.
An insightful discussion with John Halamka on advancements in AI regulation at HLTH Europe 2024.
The podcast aims to impart the critical insights necessary to spark global conversations that drive meaningful improvements in healthcare.
The vision of Faces of Digital Health is to catalyze a future where healthcare innovation keeps pace with technological advancements in other industries, ensuring that patients receive the care they need regardless of geographical location or socio-economic status.
About the host
Tjaša Zajc (Tyasha Zayc) is an internationally recognized passionate straight to the point keynote speaker, engaging panel moderator, top-rated podcaster, digital healthcare thought leader and a patient advacote through and through.
Brainlab put her on the list of 9 Digital Health Experts to Follow on LinkedIn in 2021, she is also on the list of 30 Healthcare IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2021 according to Health Tech.
She collaborates with HIMSS as the HIMSS TV host for HIMSS Europe 2023, 2024, and was a Programme Committee for HIMSS Europe 2024. As a patient advocate, she moderated the European Patient Forum Congress in 2021, and worked as a moderator of several panel discussions at The Economist Impact Cancer Series event in November 2021. She is a member of the Slovenian branch of Healthcare Businesswomen Association, active in the organisation board for membership and partnerships.
In the past she was a mentor in Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin and a contributor to MedTech Engine, among other things.
After years of experience in healthcare journalism and event management, she refocused to IT adoption in healthcare through business development and communications management at Better - leading provider of a platform to store, manage, query, retrieve and exchange structured electronic health record data based on openEHR vendor-neutral specification.
She has a Master’s degree in healthcare management and economics from the University of Ljubljana.
Her personal explorations of human diversity include a short-term volunteer work in Uganda and Turkey and a several month long hike of the Continental Divide Trail section between Colorado and Canada, and attending Burning man festival.
