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Mauro Frota is a master martial arts coach in Lisbon, Portugal, who has taken on a new venture as CEO of the world’s first boxing bag with a brain. With over 22 years experience in the fitness industry, Mauro is finally here to revolutionize the fitness industry in the best way possible. In this episode, Mauro shares with us the concept of BHOUT–a new product that takes fitness and gaming all in one.  Topics Covered  Where Mauro sees the fitness industry with the incorporation of blockchain technology.  The mission and vision of BHOUT  Who the customers of BHOUT will be and the process of searching the product market fits.  The specifics of the design of BHOUT’s product and its functionality.  The adoption challenges Mauro faced when working with customers.  Mauro shares their business model & the culture behind their community.  BHOUT tokenomics and gaming reward mechanisms Connect with Mauro  Linkedin Resources Mentioned  BHOUT - The first boxing bag with a brain Sweatcoin Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness  Build The Mom Test  The Lean Startup. News Corner https://www.newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-smart-hospitals-2023 https://finance.yahoo.com/triall-advance-blockchain-technology-clinical-070000007.html The Mayo Clinic, which was just listed as the #1 best smart hospital in the world, according to Newsweek journal, has recently announced that it will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform called Triall for a two-year multicenter pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. The goal is to ensure end-to-end clinical data integrity for clinical trials – from the initial startup to post-study evaluations by using Triall’s Veritable Proof API. Health Unchained Links Supercast: https://healthunchained.supercast.com/ Website: https://healthunchained.org Telegram: t.me/healthunchained Twitter: twitter.com/Healthunchaind

Most people can probably relate to the statement: “Everyone Hates Healthcare” After losing his healthcare insurance and experiencing an aggravating and incomprehensible process of finding an affordable doctor, a man started a journey to fix healthcare. In this episode, Michael Swartz, president at Health Karma, talks about the new show on the Outcomes Rocket Network: Everyone Hates Healthcare. Like him, people face so many problems interacting with healthcare, and on this podcast, Michael wants to create a platform for people to share their stories and experiences so we can all learn from them. He explains how he came up with the controversial title and how it reflects what the podcast strives to be. Tune in to this episode to learn about this upcoming podcast where you’ll learn from others’ healthcare experiences! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

The impending need for state Medicaid agencies and plans to administer redeterminations for Medicaid beneficiaries poses a risk of lost coverage for nearly 15 million individuals, especially for the vulnerable D-SNP population. Our expert panel provides insights into the groundwork needed to educate members about the requirements.   Panelists: Marty Janssen, Senior Program Director, Colorado Access; Errol Pierre, Vice President, State Programs, Healthfirst; Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, FAAP, Former US Medicaid Chief Medical Officer, Managing Partner, Social Innovation Ventures; Aanchal Falken, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Icario   Bios: https://www.sharedpurposeconnect.com/events/redetermination-strategies-to-maximize-continuous-medicaid-coverage/   This Bright Spots in Healthcare episode is sponsored by Icario Icario is a health action platform that unites pioneering technology, data science, and behavioral insights to connect everyone to better health. Icario develops personalized healthcare experiences that move people to better health with every action while reducing member abrasion through extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Learn more at icariohealth.com.

September 23, 2022: How do you integrate two health systems together? https://formichiganbymichigan.org/ (BHSH System) is the merger of Beaumont and Spectrum. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrjoseph/ (Jason Joseph), Chief Digital and Information Officer is helping create a new health system, For Michigan,‎ By Michigan. What are the top priorities? How do you integrate the EHR? What is your consumer facing strategy? What are your clinician enablement and efficiency platforms going to look like? How do you even begin to think about processes, governance and security? What about staffing? What about culture and remote working policies?  Key Points: A lot of times when mergers happen, it slows a bunch of work down Connectivity isn’t usually that hard. The variability in all of it is what you have to plan for. What are we doing in the area of clinical documentation with regard to technology? https://formichiganbymichigan.org/ (BHSH System) Sign up for our webinar: https://thisweekhealth.com/briefing_campaigns/patient-room-next-improving-care-efficiency/ (Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency) - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Sign up for our webinar: “https://thisweekhealth.com/briefing_campaigns/delivering-better-patient-experience-with-modern-digital-infrastructure/ (Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure)” - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

There were an estimated 18.1 million cancer cases around the world in 2020, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. According to the Comparator Report on Cancer in Europe 2020, the absolute number of people diagnosed with cancer rose around 50% in Europe over the past 20 years. However, the number of deaths only increased by 20%. The numbers show we’re making great strides in survival and treatments and early screenings. But because of the aging population, cancer care and prevention are rising global public health concerns.  In the next few episodes, we’ll talk about cancer, cancer care, and technology, the role of data and IT for improved care and research, AI in the search for new therapies, but also about cancer survivorship: what happens to patients after they are cancer free, but unfortunately far from back to the life they had before cancer.  Speaker in this episode is David J. Stewart, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. David recently wrote a book titled: A sort primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks. Find the book: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Primer-Cancer-Still-Sucks/dp/0228871999  David talked about the comparison of financial toxicity of cancer for patients in Canada and the US, and the challenges with drug development and access in the two countries; David also talked about his experience with healthcare digitalization and IT systems.    SUBSCRIBE TO THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: https://fodh.substack.com/ www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Leave a rating or a review: lovethepodcast.com/facesofdigitalhealth Thank you! :)

There's a lot that one can learn about themselves and their future children thanks to the advancements in genetics. In this episode, Saman Askari, Co-founder, and CEO at Mitera Genetics talks about genetic testing technologies in the reproductive healthcare space. He explains how Mitera Genetics offers education on genetic testing. If a patient chooses to get an Expanded Carrier Screening or a Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing, Mitera enables them to do it at home. This way, they seek to provide more knowledge and accessibility to genetic testing in a medically responsible manner as it counts on physicians and counselors that review every test and connect it back to patients' existing care systems. Saman talks about the challenges Mitera faced and conquered and also shares details on how to access their services. Tune in to this episode to learn how Mitera is helping patients and families take control of their reproductive health in a medically responsible manner! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

In this episode, you will learn more about online asynchronous healthcare with a focus on STI testing. This episode dives into the challenges of funding such a company and a few of the potential markets. You will also hear more about leveraging human capital and much more.

LabOps is the most critical piece at Odin Pharma. In this episode, Mandar Shah, Vice President of Research and Development at Odin Pharma, talks about how his team’s operations at the lab, develop improved sterile products with technology. His career evolved from developing new drugs and surgical products to evergreening patents with his R&D at Odin. He details the development process that passes through the formulation and the analytical labs as a group effort where integrity is crucial. He also explains how technology can supplement the LabOps people’s work while emphasizing the importance of the human team. He encourages LabOps people to think about what they are doing and why not be monotonous and mechanical. Tune in to this episode to learn how LabOps is crucial for developing sterile products at Odin Pharma! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

ONCE UPON A GENE - EPISODE 153 Improving Inclusion Practices in Schools with the Inclusive Educator - Bre Gastaldi Bre Gastaldi is known as the Inclusive Educator and she teaches school districts how to implement inclusive practices. She's also a special education teacher. She joins me for a discussion on diversity and inclusion in all aspects of education and the school setting.  EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS Can you tell us about yourself and your work as an inclusion expert? I got into special education by way of my own neurodivergence. I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school, studied psychology as an undergrad and I started understanding myself better and fell in love with psychology and working with kids. I got my masters degree and began teaching, eventually becoming an inclusion specialist. I was also looking for ways to include my students in a variety of activities. My students excelled because of it, the school culture shifted and I began working with other teachers and administrators to improve inclusion practices. I have since branched off and became the Inclusive Educator.  What is the biggest misconception around inclusion? Inclusion isn't a program because true inclusion exists within your child's general education classroom- it's not a class they go to. If only certain students can be in an inclusion program, it isn't inclusive. Inclusion is an undeniable sense of belonging from the time a child walks into a classroom. It's a feeling of belonging and being valued and celebrated.  How does inclusion affect a general education student? A 2008 analysis of several studies found that inclusion had a neutral to positive impact on neurotypical students in 81% percent of studies. When there's an inclusive classroom and culture, all students are learning more. School districts doing a good job being inclusive reveals an increase of graduation rates. Inclusion impacts general education students in that they improve in academics, but they're also socializing with a reduced sense of fear, they generally have a stronger self esteem and better sense of self. What are your top tips for inclusion? Let your child lead because they will tell you one way or another when they're ready to participate more. As a parent, be intentional about making positive connections with the multidisciplinary team. If your child isn't being included, start slowly with focusing on what their interests are. LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED The Inclusive Educator Website https://www.theinclusiveeducator.com/ Connect with Bre on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_inclusive_educator/ TUNE INTO THE ONCE UPON A GENE PODCAST Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5Htr9lt5vXGG3ac6enxLQ7 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/once-upon-a-gene/id1485249347 Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/once-upon-a-gene Overcast https://overcast.fm/itunes1485249347/once-upon-a-gene CONNECT WITH EFFIE PARKS Website https://effieparks.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/OnceUponAGene Instagram https://www.instagram.com/onceuponagene.podcast/?hl=en Built Ford Tough Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1877643259173346/ Once Upon a Gene TV https://www.thedisordercollection.com/

Joanne Conroy, M.D. is the CEO and President of Dartmouth Health. She was also recently elected by the American Hospital Association (AHA) to be their chair-elect designate. Prior to Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Dr. Conroy served as CEO of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (formerly the Lahey Clinic). She also served as Chief Health Care Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Conroy received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College and an M.D. from the University of South Carolina.  Key Insights:Dr. Conroy discusses her new role with the American Hospital Association and her overarching vision for leadership in healthcare. Work Force Challenges. One of the AHA’s top issues is the work force. There has been a significant decrease in healthcare workers across the country and we need to be creative about building pipelines for new workers as well as initiatives for retention.COVID-19’s Lasting Impact. There are two silver linings from the pandemic. First is the expansion of telehealth. COVID-19 vastly accelerate the timeline for telehealth adoption and use. Second is the growth in remote work. Remote options give organizations a recruiting advantage, allowing them to select from a national pool of applicants. Equity of Opportunity. To develop the next generation of women leaders requires developing leadership training and programing to identify future leaders, as well as creating opportunities for those people to demonstrate their leadership. Training isn’t useful with the opportunity to apply it.  Relevant Links:Follow Dr. Conroy on TwitterRead “AHA Board Names Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., as Chair-Elect Designate”

This episode features Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Dean Sarah Szanton and Humana Chief Nursing Officer Kathy Driscoll. The conversation covers the value of nursing and how nursing’s influence will reimagine the future of health. Podcast References and Resources: Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Humana Here is how we can reimagine nursing in Florida | Column -| The Nurse Podcast Channel is made possible with support from IHI. Learn more about how IHI is transforming health care education at IHI.org -| This episode originally aired on August 17, 2022 on On The Pulse. Listen, follow and subscribe here.

How can we enhance quality of care and the patient experience, increase provider efficiency and satisfaction, reduce administrative burdens and improve financial outcomes? Dragon Ambient eXperience (Nuance DAX), is an ambient clinical intelligence solution that automatically documents patient encounters accurately and efficiently at the point of care. Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health joins Bill Russell to discuss this revolutionary product. 7 mins saved per care delivery encounter. Reducing documentation time by 50%. 70% reduction in feelings of burnout and fatigue. 79% improved documentation quality. 83% of patients say their physician is more personable and conversational. https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/ (https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/) https://www.nuance.com/healthcare/ambient-clinical-intelligence.html (https://www.nuance.com/healthcare/ambient-clinical-intelligence.html) This is episode 4 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain and Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company). Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar:https://thisweekhealth.com/briefing_campaigns/patient-room-next-improving-care-efficiency/ ( Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency) - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

Between the closure of Amazon Care and the recent acquisition of One Medical, Amazon has been making significant moves in healthcare this year. Inspired by the buzz, John and David take the opportunity to reflect on Amazon’s shaky healthcare strategy: What worked? What didn’t? And what’s next?TOPICS:(0:37) How big is Amazon’s opportunity in healthcare?(1:53) What does Amazon do in healthcare?(2:33) Why is Amazon closing Amazon Care?(3:01) Is Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical a big deal?(4:18) Where has Amazon had success in healthcare?(7:38) What can the healthcare industry learn from Amazon? (8:26) What is Amazon’s biggest healthcare opportunity from a tech perspective?(10:07) What is Amazon’s biggest healthcare opportunity from a retail perspective? (13:30) How does Amazon’s healthcare ambitions impact patients? ABOUT CARETALKCareTalk is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare system. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (CEO, CareCentrix) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy. GET IN TOUCHBecome a CareTalk Podcast sponsor: https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/work-with-usGuest appearance requests: https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/contact-usVisit us at https://www.caretalkpodcast.comFOLLOW CARETALK Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Follow John on Twitter Follow David on Twitter#healthcarepodcast #healthcareindustry #healthcarebusiness #healthcarepolicy #ushealthcare #amazon #amazoncare #amazonhealthcare #healthcaretechnology #primarycare #doctors #nurses #medicine

Meet Joanne Conroy, M.D.:Joanne Conroy, M.D. is the CEO and President of Dartmouth Health. She was also recently elected by the American Hospital Association (AHA) to be their chair-elect designate. Prior to Dartmouth Health, Dr. Conroy served as CEO of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (formerly the Lahey Clinic). She also served as Chief Health Care Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Conroy received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College and an M.D. from the University of South Carolina. Key Insights:Dr. Conroy discusses her overarching vision for leadership and change in healthcare. Career Advice. Dr. Conroy tells every woman on a leadership trajectory that they need to have an appetite for personal and professional risk and be willing to move. Have that conversation with your family unit about what career progression and balance would look like. Broadening Horizons. For women that can’t move, Dr. Conroy recommends broadening your scope, and looking for opportunities outside of your organization. There may be opportunities for leadership in your community. Most important is to fulfill that role with purpose, and when achieve your goals don’t feel shy about telling others.Equity of Opportunity. To develop the next generation of women leaders requires developing leadership training and programing to identify future leaders, as well as creating opportunities for those people to demonstrate their leadership. Training isn’t useful without the opportunity to apply it. This episode is hosted by Gary Bisbee, Ph.D. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Think Medium. Relevant Links:Follow Dr. Conroy on TwitterRead “AHA Board Names Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., as Chair-Elect Designate”

Becoming who you are, creating connections, and kindling meaningful relationships is a journey. In this episode of the Future of Global Informatics, TJ Southern interviews Nicole Thomas, nurse, entrepreneur, and founder of Impact Nurse Consulting; Nicole shares her journey of becoming, from being a little girl to how Impact Nurse Consulting came to be. She explains how her organization implements innovative healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes and employee wellness.  She discusses social determinants of health and why she needs to have a community component in her work. Nicole talks about how the lack of technology is the most frequent problem she encounters with her organization and how nurse informaticists fit in to make connections between healthcare organizations, technology, and end-users. Tune in to listen to Nicole’s journey and learn from her experiences as a nurse and entrepreneur! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Have you ever looked up your symptoms on Dr. Google only for it to mistakenly say you have cancer or something worse?  In this episode, Peter Bannister, Vice President of Life Sciences at Ada Health, talks about how Ada has developed a more informed and accurate alternative for people to initially go to when feeling unwell. With the help of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, a vast medical knowledge engine behind it, and high clinical evidence expertise and standards, Ada Health can be used as an app or in other familiar interfaces to allow people to report symptoms and have a personalized question flow; The result of this is a set of suggested conditions that concur with their symptomatology. Ada has a user-friendly version for patients and one designed for the healthcare professional to review, accelerating the doctor-patient relationship. Peter explains how Ada focuses on low and middle-income countries and is available in 11 languages, including Swahili and Arabic. It seeks to be a reliable tool that triages users to the correct provider and form of treatment, allowing them to interact with an expert to get the support and care needed. Tune in to this episode to listen about how a combination of man and machine can transform the care that's delivered! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

September 21, 2022: Now more than ever, healthcare organizations must give patients easier access to their health data and focus on reducing friction. The challenge comes with balancing the need for improved user experience with the importance of adopting appropriate security measures to guard sensitive data. During this solution showcase with Lane Williams, Director Solutions Engineering at https://www.f5.com/ (F5) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlavalle/ (Jason LaValle), Senior Solutions Architect at https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/ (Sirius Healthcare (A CDW Company)) we cover: • Attack evolution – Discover how attackers evolve their online schemes to take advantage of inherent vulnerabilities on web and mobile applications. • Countermeasure efficacy – Address the whole spectrum of automated application attacks and digital fraud abuse by abandoning traditional point solutions. • Identity and access management – Understand how healthcare organizations can protect PHI and their brand without compromising user experience or patient access to personal information. What kind of attacks are coming for healthcare? What are the inherent vulnerabilities that they're going after? Are we seeing a difference between web attacks and mobile attacks? Are there different types of attacks for different types of devices? How do you create a framework that addresses all of the different attacks? Having dual factor is critical but no longer good enough. You also need protection on the edge. What opportunities do we have to identify fraud within our medical devices? Is there an architecture we should consider to have in place? Key Points: A web application firewall product is very important because you can see exactly what the user is doing Attackers are increasing their sophistication by writing AI programs to basically duplicate the effects Zero trust is not a one stop thing. It's more of a journey. IOMT - Internet of Medical Things https://www.f5.com/solutions/healthcare/how-to-protect-patient-data-phi-and-claims-payment-integrity-in-healthcare?utm_medium=paid-displayandutm_source=f5pcam-siriusandutm_campaign=amer-sde_ofp_satandutm_content=kt-banner (WHITEPAPER: How to Protect Patient Data and Claims Payment Integrity in Healthcare) https://www.f5.com/ (F5) https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/ (Sirius Healthcare (A CDW Company))

Dr. Silvia Mah is the founder and chairwoman of Stella, a business accelerator for women, and the founder of Stella Angels, a network of accredited angel investors who fund women. A social impact investor, Mah is also funding women-led startups through various funds including Next Wave Impact, Stella Impact Capital, Portfolia and Ad Astra Ventures. Connect with Mah on Linkedin.Stella Angels is a network of accredited angel investors who are funding women in two ways: by coordinating direct introductions to interested investors, and by creating special purpose vehicles (SPVs). When the Stella Angels community of investors has collectively committed $50K+ into one company, they can streamline the investment via an SPV, giving the founder just one line item on their cap table. Stella Angels is welcoming new members who are seeking to invest across industries in women-led companies with some traction. To get started, email [email protected] Stella Angels is a part of Stella, a membership community providing women founders with business courses, access to capital events, advisory services and funding opportunities. To join, visit https://community.stella.co/signup/.Stack the Deck for FemTech Survey: https://www.bit.ly/3eCE0LEPodcast Link: https://link.chtbl.com/FemTechFocusSocial HandlesLinkedin: @FemTech Focus @Brittany BarretoTwitter: @Femtech_Focus @DrBrittBInstagram: @FemTechFocus @DrBrittanyBarretoFacebook: @FemTech Focus @Dr. Brittany BarretoFemTech Focus Bio:FemTech Focus is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded to bring awareness externally and internally for the FemTech industry and to empower the key stakeholders including entrepreneurs, investors, physicians, governments, and biopharma with resources and research to elevate women’s health and wellness globally. Subscribe and Donate: www.femtechfocus.orgFemTech Focus Podcast Description:The FemTech Focus Podcast with Dr. Brittany Barreto is a meaningfully provocative conversational series that brings women's health experts - including doctors, scientists, inventors, and founders - on air to talk about the innovative technology, services, and products that are improving women, female, and girl's health and wellness, collectively known as FemTech. The podcast gives the host, Dr. Brittany Barreto, and guests an engaging, friendly environment to learn about the past, present, and future of women’s health and wellness. 

People don't know what it takes to actually research to optimize our health. In this episode, Joseph Kim, Chief Strategy Officer for ProofPilot, talks about the new podcast in the Outcomes Rocket Network Research Confidential, brought to you by ProofPilot. Joe wants to get people to see the inner workings of research from clinic staff, sponsors, and patients. He plans to start with site voices that include investigators, nurses, study coordinators, financial people, regulatory people, and pharmacists, hoping to bring their stories together and educate people. He also invites listeners to tune in for episodes twice a month. Tune in to this episode to learn about Outcomes Rocket’s new podcast on the sausage-making of research! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

As our listeners will know, StartUp Health invests in what we call health moonshots. These are big, audacious health goals that guide us as we push innovative health entrepreneurs — our global army of Health Transformers — to collaborate and focus on long-term impact. We have health moonshots around curing cancer, improving women’s health, ending the opioid crisis, and we’ve recently added another focused on Type 1 diabetes. This week, we launched a Health Equity Moonshot at the Clinton Global Initiative in order to build a framework that re-orients these inspiring problem solvers to tackle the challenge beneath the challenge, the social and systemic factors that drive health inequities. This transformative initiative will be integrated into all of StartUp Health’s other health moonshots, breaking down silos and encouraging local and global collaboration. Leading StartUp Health’s Health Equity Moonshot is Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, a global health entrepreneur and long-time Health Transformer (he is the CEO & Co-founder of StartUp Health portfolio company InOn Health) who has dedicated his life to reducing health disparities. Yelpaala is an American of Ghanaian heritage and sits at the intersection of the immigrant and Black experiences in the United States. In this StartUp Health NOW podcast episode, Yelpaala will share his vision for a Health Equity Moonshot and why it is necessary. Want to join this Health Equity Moonshot? If you’re an investor who believes in this vision, we want to hear from you. Are you a founder focused on breaking down health barriers for historically marginalized communities or who has been held back based on systemic bias in race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation? We want to hear from you. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health startuphealth.com Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox.  

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World leaders meet in New York this week, to commit - hopefully - $18 billion over the next three years to the Global Fund in its fight to end AIDS, TB and Malaria - as well as COVID-19, and in this episode, we are again sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS to explore how communities themselves lead country programs funded by the Global Fund, as well as the critical advocacy role they are playing right now to keep the world’s attention focused on the three diseases. Joining Ben are: Kanna Dharmarajah Lead HIV and Financing, Frontline AIDS Eddie Mkhatjwa, Project Manager, CANGO, Eswatini Yvette Raphael, Executive Director, Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa, South Africa https://frontlineaids.org https://cango.org.sz https://apha.org.za https://www.theglobalfund.org #FightForWhatCounts #HIV #AIDS #TB #Malaria #COVID-19 #UNGA #UNGA77 #pandemics

In this episode, Daniel Kraft, founder of Exponential Medicine and Digital.Health, and chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance talks about the internet of medical things and the future of medicine. Daniel reminisces on a TedTalk about medicine’s future and ten years later, he finds that we are in a new age of digitally connected and mobile health. For him, COVID brought transformation in an accelerated way in diagnostics, therapeutics, crowdsourcing trials, and beyond. Daniel believes the future of medicine consists in bringing multiple technologies together. He talks about developing technologies like digital twins, quantum computing, 3D printing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. He points out how smartphones today have become a powerful digital tool for individuals’ health as well. He thinks of digital health as the ability to take all new data, integrate it, make sense of it, and personalize it to the individual, clinician, or healthcare system needed. Daniel argues one of the challenges for medicine is keeping up with the innovation, which is why he’s built Digital.Health as a platform to address that problem. He thinks navigating the vast amount of applications and the data created from them and smart devices are getting more complicated. He talks about how the focus should be on producing insights and integrating them into the workflow. This information can provide an improvement in interaction with patients and accessibility. Daniel speaks about digital determinants of health as a new factor to take into account to optimize prevention, diagnostics, and therapeutics. He believes all these digital tools will upscale the healthcare space to a new golden age and democratize access. Listen to what Daniel Kraft, a noted visionary and futurist, has to say about creating the future of health, medicine, and orthopedics at DOCSF. Learn about the internet of medical things and why Daniel is certain that collaboration between innovators will bring forward a new age for health!