Digital Health Today 360 with Dan Kendall – Details, episodes & analysis

Women and girls in low/middle-income countries are facing an urgent unmet need for modern contraception. This World Contraception Day, join guest host Sophie Park, Managing Director at G4A Digital Health Bayer in conversation with Dr. Ariane de Hoog, Lead Access to Medicine, Community Engagement at Bayer, and Titilola Olaolu-Hassan, Co-Founder & COO at Zuri Health, for this vital discussion on harnessing digital health solutions to empower women and enhance healthcare accessibility in Africa. Topics include: [00:02:14] Background to Bayer’s interest in empowering Women’s health. [00:05:05] Zuri Health: Affordable healthcare for underserved communities. [00:06:28] Impact goals behind Zuri becoming a G4A Portfolio company. [00:11:37] How the Zuri Health platform directly improves girls' and women's access to healthcare. [00:14:08] The future beyond family planning for Zuri Health in partnership with Bayer. [00:15:53] Bayer’s impact goal to provide 100 million women access to modern contraception by 2030. [00:20:23] Empowering women to make informed decisions irrespective of location Guest & Host Links Connect with Dan Kendall on LinkedIn Connect with Sophie Park on LinkedIn Connect with Dr. Ariane de Hoog on LinkedIn Connect with Titilola Olaolu-Hassan on LinkedIn Bayer G4A Zuri Health - Your-Life website - complimentary access to an array of educational and training resources on adolescent health and contraceptive counselling Digital Health Today would not be possible without the support of leading organizations. Thank you to: > Presenting Partner: Amalgam Rx > Contributing Partners and Sponsors: LSI | Lindus Health | Bayer G4A Connect on Digital Health Today: Browse Episodes | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Connect on Health Podcast Network: Browse Shows | Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and Moffitt Cancer Center have announced they are co-hosting CancerX, a new public-private partnership effort to rapidly accelerate the pace of cancer innovation in the U.S. Alongside the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Moffitt Cancer Center and DiMe are urging the healthcare and digital health sectors to boost technology-driven initiatives to combat cancer. The two groups are working together to accelerate cancer research advancements, and they invite other organizations to do the same. The Biden administration's revived Cancer Moonshot includes the new CancerX public-private partnership. According to officials, the goal is to use industry collaboration and disruptive innovation to lessen the burden of cancer on everyone. The CancerX program will focus on using digital innovation to reduce disparities and financial toxicity in cancer care and research, working with government organizations, and will enlist industry parties to help with the mammoth undertaking. CancerX uniquely blends DiMe’s expertise in convening cross-disciplinary groups to develop clinical-quality resources on a tech timeline with Moffitt’s top research and care experts working side-by-side to revolutionize cancer treatment, extend access to the highest-quality care, and save more lives. The initiative is open to all those working in the field who are committed to working collaboratively and share a vision of unleashing the power of innovation to design and create a future that's free of the burden of cancer. Topics include: What is the Digital Medicine Society? Announcing CancerX, key initiatives and membership structure Improving the global ecosystem Guest & Host Links Connect with Dan Kendall | LinkedIn Connect with Jennifer Goldsack | LinkedIn and listen to her episode from May 2019 CancerX Digital Medicine Society Dime Academy DiMe Society Slack Digital Health Today would not be possible without the support of leading organizations. Thank you to: > Presenting Partner: Amalgam Rx > Contributing Partners and Sponsors: Akili | Lindus Health | Bayer G4A Connect on Digital Health Today: Browse Episodes | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Connect on Health Podcast Network: Browse Shows | Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In this episode, I'm excited to introduce you to yet another outstanding health innovation leader who is hosting another new show on Digital Health Today. His degrees are in engineering and business, and he is a writer, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. He is a truly multi-talented person and I'm pleased to also call him a friend. I'm honored to introduce the host of the new Asia Pacific Edition of Digital Health Today, Tony Estrella." ~ Dan Kendall, Founder of Digital Health Today Click here to read the transcript Links and Resources: Connect with Tony Estrella: Twitter | LinkedIn | Personal Website Connect with Taliossa Read Tony's Book: Comatose FutureProofing Healthcare Full Whitepaper, Summary and Video: A Vision for Asia Pacific in 2050  Connect on Digital Health Today: Browse Episodes | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Connect on Health Podcast Network: Browse Shows | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Digital Health Today is made possible by the support of our sponsors. Special thanks to: Bayer G4A Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Takeda Roche Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Digital Health Today, we are jumping over to the country of Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people situated on the Baltic Sea. Estonia borders Latvia and Russia, and is across the water from its Nordic neighbor, Finland. Here to talk to us today is Ain Aaviksoo, he’s the Deputy Secretary General of E-services and Innovation, at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia. He tells us about Estonian business culture, their outstanding infrastructure, and the opportunities for outside companies and individuals to do research and business in Estonia. Estonian companies have transformed our experience with telephony with Skype, and banking with Transferwise, and they have their sights set on transforming the way people experience health and wellness as well. In his role as the Deputy Secretary General of E-services and Innovation, Ain works to combine medicine and informatics to disrupt healthcare in a great way. Estonia has a long history of digital innovation across public and private services. They’ve successfully migrated traditional “brick and mortar” activities to online, and they’ve implemented things like electronic voting and even an electronic residency program that is open to anyone around the world. Ain and I spoke about the various services and programs available in Estonia, and how they are positioned to help individuals and companies who would like to leverage the infrastructure they have in place. Today's Topics: How Estonia emerged from the Soviet Union as a technology powerhouse The “e-Estonia Model” and the advantages it provides to private and public organizations in Estonia How the Estonian Genome Center is making personalized medicine accessible for research and companies The role of the Estonian President as he takes on the six-month rotation of the EU Presidency The startup culture of Estonia The Estonian ‘e-residency' program that is open to anyone to set up a EU business and ‘electronic residency' The three legal pillars to create a secure environment for secure data sharing Links and Resources Mentioned: Information about Estonia Estonian Health Tech Cluster Estonia’s E-Residency Program Estonian Call for Proposals for Personalized Medicine (Closes 26 June 2017) Article about the World's First ‘E-Resident' Information about becoming an e-Resident General Data Protection Regulation coming into effect in May 2018 eHealth Tallinn 16-18 October 2017 (#ehealthtallinn2017) Ain on LinkedIn Ain on Twitter Digital Health Events Join Digital Health Today Video: TED Talk - A peek into our digital future: Estonia's e-Residency program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Digital Health Today, Yuval Mor, CEO of Beyond Verbal, dives into the research and potential of technology that uses vocal biomarkers to analyze emotions and physical health. We know that words are powerful and that what you say can be interpreted differently based on how you say it. The insights provided through our speech is getting supercharged thanks to the talented team of innovators at Beyond Verbal, a company based in Israel that can correlate distinct voice features with health conditions and reveal novel vocal biomarkers. The Mayo Clinic has used their technology in a study about Coronary Artery Disease, and it is also being used for Autism Spectrum disorder and Parkinson’s disease. To tell us more about the science and how it is being applied, I spoke with Yuval Mor, the CEO of Beyond Verbal. Yuval got a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University and a Management degree from Stanford University. He then worked in various leadership roles focusing on sales and marketing across a range of technology companies. In this interview, we cover how the company got started, how the technology has been deployed in the commercial environment, and how can be used in healthcare. You’ll also hear about their free app that they have available on iOS and Android. It’s called Moodies, and you can use it to analyze your own speech using their technology. It is very cool, and you’ll want to check it out. And it's free too; I think you’ll be impressed. Today’s Topics: Similarities of the startup scenes in Israel and Silicon Valley How the research linking vocal intonations and emotions began The research into physical health and novel vocal biomarkers How other organizations can participate in research using vocal biomarkers A crowdsourced study into the effectiveness of smiles in changing the vocal biomarkers over the phone Links and Resources Mentioned: Moodies App by Beyond Verbal (free!): iOS/Apple Company Website Beyond Verbal Health Research platform Beyond Verbal Developers Platform Beyond Verbal API Beyond Verbal on Twitter Digital Health Events Join Digital Health Today Videos: Jobs talks about the iPad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this show we’ve spoken to entrepreneurs that are serving needs in developed markets, we’ve spoken to entrepreneurs who are creating solutions for developing markets like those in sub-saharan Africa, but we’ve not spoken to startups that are doing both simultaneously. Today we’re changing that as we talk with Kate Newhouse, the CEO of Doctor Care Anywhere – a UK based company that is developing digital healthcare services to users in the UK and in Kenya. Kate studied history at the University of Oxford before starting a consulting career that focused on digital transformation and healthcare. We dive into the telemedicine industry and the start of Doctor Care Anywhere, and discuss the strategy that’s helped their company succeed in growing a technology platform when neither of the two co-founders, nor their first employee had a technical background. Today’s Topics: Developments in the telemedicine industry How they got funded How they won their first customers Who they won as their first customers How they decided to expand into Kenya How to grow a technology startup without being technical Links and Resources Mentioned: Kate Newhouse on LinkedIn: Doctor Care Anywhere on Twitter: @DrCareAnywhere ‏ Kate Newhouse on Twitter: @Katefsnewhouse Website: Doctorcareanywhere.com Digital Health Events Digital Health Jumpstart Join Digital Health Today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Chaitanya Dahagam. He is a Healthcare Technologist and Global Partner Innovation Executive at IBM Watson Health. He studied medicine at University of Alabama, he was a General Surgery Resident at the University of Texas, and then did what a lot of medically trained people are doing: he went into business. He’s going to tell us all about IBM Watson Health, some of the projects and organizations they are working with, and importantly, how you can find out more and become a partner with Watson Health. “AI” is a technology and buzzword that is being applied to nearly every industry. As data sets explode, the race is on to find ways to turn the piles of data into meaningful and actionable knowledge. AI holds the key to unlocking the insights that can detect, prevent and cure disease, and IBM Watson is determined to being the locksmith. As IBM Watson evolves from ‘gameshow celebrity’ to ‘healthcare expert’, there are clear ways that it can be applied to help solve the toughest challenges faced by health providers – but there are also clear ways where it won’t be applied. Tune in to Chaitanya Dahagam as he provides insights into how IBM Watson is being used and the potential it has for future developments. Today’s Topics: The difference between ‘Augmented Intelligence' and ‘Artificial Intelligence' How IBM Watson uses APIs and data sets The role of AI in clinical decision support versus decision making How to engage in IBM Watson programs for corporates and startups How healthcare professionals can change the practice of healthcare from the outside Links and Resources Mentioned: Best first stop: IBM BlueMix Environment (also the catalog is here) IBM Watson Health (HIPAA Compliant Solutions) Other resources: Watson Developer Cloud Watson Services Watson APIs Chaitanya Dahagam on LinkedIn Genie MD WellTok  BrightMinded Watson for Oncology  Digital Health Events Dan Kendall @ HealthTechDan Dan[@]digitalhealth.com Join Digital Health Today Digital Health Jumpstart! Video: How It Works: IBM Watson Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Brian O’Connor. Brian is chair of the European Connected Health Alliance, or ‘ECH Alliance’, which is a not-for-profit membership organization that, despite it’s name, works with stakeholders around the world to facilitate collaborative working and to bring about meaningful change in health and social care. Brian was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has spent his career as a consultant, manager and investor in both private and public companies. As head of the ECH Alliance he is creating a platform for change and disruption across Europe, China, and most recently, they’ve started work in North America working in both the US and Canada, in the interview, he sheds more light about that. Brian O’Connor lived and worked in Hong Kong for twelve years first as a corporate consultant – then he went on to create the largest private healthcare company in Hong Kong with over 700 GP practices and 3 million patient consultations a year covering everything from general practitioners and dentistry to traditional Chinese medicine and surgery. He understands that overcoming cultural and other barriers within healthcare is a key component of solving the problems faced around the world. He’s got a great way to deliver news that can otherwise be difficult and frustrating to hear, but he does it in a way that encourages and excites the change that is so badly needed in health care systems around the world. I’m very pleased to announce that ECH Alliance and Digital Health Today have teamed up and are working together to facilitate and promote the work being done globally to improve health and social care. There’s so much to be done, and ECH Alliance members are a core part of the Digital Health Today Community, so we are working together for the greater good to amplify the work each of our teams are doing. Before I sign off, I just want to give a shout out to Aline Noizet and Nick Adkins of the #pinksocks tribe. Nick Adkins out in Portland, Oregon sent me a few pairs of his famous pinksocks, and it was Aline Noizet who suggested that I receive some, so thanks to you both. I love them, I’m wearing them and sharing the pinksocks tribe far and wide. If you are not familiar with pinksocks and the GSD movement, click on the link to visit his site, and check out his Twitter feed. Let’s go #Pinksocks and #GSD (Get Stuff Done)! Today's Topics: The biggest obstacle to progress in healthcare… How permanent, multi-stakeholder ecosystems work to create change Lessons and insights shared between New York eHealth Collaborative and ECHAlliance Similarities between the Canadian and many European health systems How Virtual Reality is being used to treat people with phobias The implications of Brexit on UK health organizations, competitiveness, and funding How to be a part and benefit from the ECH Alliance Links and Resources Mentioned: New York eHealth Collaborative The Canadian Integrated Health Alliance South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Horizon 2020 Brian on LinkedIn ECHAlliance LinkedIn ECHAlliance on Twitter Pinksocks Digital Health Events Dan Kendall @ HealthTechDan Dan [@]digitalhealth.com Join Digital Health Today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Dr Daisy Robinton. I met Daisy at Wired Health in London earlier this year where she delivered a tremendous talk about CRISPR-Cas9 and once I heard it, I knew I had to ask her to come here on the program to share her insights and inspiration into the field of bioengineering. Daisy is a scientist in gene editing at Harvard University studying stem cell biology at the intersection of embryonic development and cancer. Her research focuses on molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and her papers focus on the potential and promise of stem cell research. In addition to her scientific career, she’s also an entrepreneur. Along with Dr Jack Kriendler, she cofounded Weird and Wonderful, which is a production company where they combine the arts with science to make the story of science entertaining and reach a broader audience. She was recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30 for 2017 (and just in the nick of time – she recently celebrated her 30th birthday!). She’s also a fashion and lifestyle model, promoting brands such as Reebok and Garmin, and she’s given a TedX talk (see the show notes) about the potential of gene therapy in treating aging. Daisy and I spoke about how new technologies such as CRISPR Cas-9 are accelerating the development of new genetic therapies, and how science and society are responding and adapting to the new possibilities bioengineering technologies present. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I think you will as well.  Links and Resources Mentioned: Daisy Robinton at Weird and Wonderful Daisy Robinton on LinkedIn Daisy Robinton on Twitter @daisyrobinton Report by U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine on Human Embryo Editing Editing Humanity – Article on the Economist Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support – Article on New York Times Digital Health Events Dan Kendall @ HealthTechDan Dan [@]digitalhealth.com Join Digital Health Today Videos: Bioengineering: The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Ageing | WIRED Health 2017 | WIRED Events Can we engineer the end of ageing? | Daisy Robinton | TEDxLondonSalon Consumer Genetic Testing -- "23andZ" | Incident Report 011 | ZDoggMD.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’ve been looking forward to recording this episode for a long time, my guest is Eugene Borukhovich, he started a new role last year as the Global Head of Digital Health Incubation & Innovation at Bayer. Eugene has worn a lot of hats over the years and has been instrumental in driving the global conversation on health innovation and disruption. In addition to his role at Bayer, he’s an advisor at Health XL, and he’s an active leader of the Health 2.0 organization. He’s built Health 2.0 networks in NYC and Amsterdam, and he recently formed a group in Dusseldorf. In this conversation, we cover the work they are doing at Bayer as they work to transform a company with over 150 years of innovation and 100,000 employees, and adapt to the rapid pace of development need to be competitive now and in the future. One of the programs we discuss is the Bayer Grants4Apps program, and I want to point out that the applications for this program are open until May 31st, 2017, the link to the application is on the shownotes at Digital Health Today.com/22, or you can find the application by visiting the website grants4apps.com. We covered a lot of ground here and I have a load of links, videos, articles and more on the website, so please do head over and check it out, again, Digital Health today.com/22 If you want a chance to catch Eugene in person, head to Health 2.0 in Barcelona, that event is being held on the 3rd to the 5th of May 2017, in just a few days in fact. Eugene’s giving a talk there, and if you haven’t been to this conference before, you really should get there. Health 2.0 a great organization, they run events all over the world, and just a few weeks ago they announced they were joining forces with HIMSS so they have even more things going on leveraging the strengths of both organizations globally. If do plan to be there at Health 2.0 Barcelona, let me know. I’ll be out there for a few days and would welcome the chance to say hello. If you don’t catch us in Barcelona, you can also find us the following week at the Cube Tech Fair being held in Berlin on the 10-12th of May. That event features Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple, Robin Wright known for her role in House of Cards, and I’ll be there as well participating in a panel, and Eugene will also be hosting a session there. Links and Resources Mentioned Eugene’s Article about the Triple “E” of #digitalhealth Bayer Grants4Apps accelerator – Applications open until May 31, 2017! Key Therapeutic Areas of Bayer Grants4Apps Grants for Apps Berlin Grants4Apps Dealmaker Program More about Bayer Innovation Health 2.0 Ginger.io Digital Health Events Eugene on Twitter Dan Kendall @ HealthTechDan Dan [@]digitalhealth.com Join Digital Health Today Video: xMed 2016 Insights Lounge - Eugene Borukhovich and Zayna Khayat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices