Faces of Digital Health
Faces of Digital Health is a podcast about digital health, exploring how different healthcare systems adopt technologies in healthcare. Its aim is to satisfy curiosity about different cultures, identify barriers to success in different countries and finding answers and advice for accelerating the success of digital health entrepreneurs.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 360
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Nigeria: Innovation in One of The Worst Healthcare Systems in The World
One of the speakers at the Nextmed Health Conference 2023 said: “In the past, people didn’t age; they just died.” This is still a daily reality in many low-income countries, which face a lack of work…
00:18:13 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
How Are Drones in Malawi Solving Medical Supply Chain Challenges?
Africa is a huge continent with 1.2 billion people and a diverse set of countries. Healthcare systems are generally poor, with workforce and supply chain struggles, and infrastructure challenges such…
00:35:48 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
How Is France Executing The Vision To Become The European Digital Health Leader?
In June 2021, France announced a €7.5 billion Health Innovation Plan, as part of a broader financial investment to boost the French industry. This funding goes beyond digital health, it’s aimed at s…
00:37:18 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Bringing ePrescribing To The Next Level: To Patients
The first efforts to establish ePrescribing in the US started in 2001. However, by 2014 only 4% of clinicians had adopted it. Electronic prescribing became legal in all 50 states by 2007. Eight years…
00:28:45 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
(RERUN) Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana: How is Medtronic Labs Redefining Chronic Disease Management (Anne Stake)
A systemic approach to care for non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes is Africa is in its early stages, with the biggest challenge for patients being the price of medications, says…
00:42:39 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
How Can AI Help Predict Patient Drug Response? (Genialis)
Drug development is undeniably expensive. For years, the pharmaceutical industry cited an estimate of 3 billion US dollars. However, a recent study published in 2020 discovered that the median cost a…
00:37:59 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
How Can Digital Tools Aid Long-Term Chronic Care Management? (Omada Health)
Chronic diseases are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioral factors. They require long-term management and often behavioral changes. Achieving long-lastin…
00:31:53 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
How Can Generative AI "Super Staff" Healthcare? (Munjal Shah)
The field of generative AI companies is evolving fast and many companies, that have been exploring the field for years, are gaining in visibility. However, new companies are popping up as well. One o…
00:43:15 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
What Are Investors Betting On In Generative AI in Healthcare?
Generative AI is definitely the word we will remember 2023 by. Knowing that administrative burden is among the key reason for physician burnout, the idea that AI could tackle this challenge, became a…
00:33:27 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
BEST OF 2022: Has The Risk of Becoming a Nurse Become Too Great in the US?
Nurses play a key role in patient care, but their contribution to patient outcomes is often undervalued and underappreciated. It took a pandemic to create a major shift in their job opportunities and…
00:50:51 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
When Does it Make Sense To Get a Pharmacogenomic Test?
Healthcare is one of the rare industries, in which often times, by requesting a service, the work hardly begins for the patient. Especially in complex cases, care is rarely seamless: test are done, d…
00:47:58 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
Norway: The “pilot illness” - easy to do hospital pilot projects, difficult to get larger deployments
Telemedicine is becoming an archaic term in 2023. It is also too broad. We now have at-home hospitals, virtual wards, remote monitoring, and more. Video consultations and online patient portals saw a…
00:32:15 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
LATAM Ep.4: Improving Primary Care in Mexico
Mexico has 126 million people which is a bit more than half as much as Brazil in South America, or three times as much as Argentina, which we discussed in one of our previous episodes as well.
Mexic…
00:49:43 |
Thu 22 Jun 2023
LATAM Ep. 3: Improving Cancer Care in South America (Pegasi)
In the last few episodes, you’ve been able to hear two episodes about digital health in South America. We talked about Peru with Jhonathan Bringas, MD and innovator, CEO of Lapsi Health, we dove into…
00:55:14 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Finland: Room for Improvement in Public-Private Partnerships
In this episode, we’re diving in the Finish ecosysyem. What makes Finland repeatedly achieve the rank of the happiest country globally? In this episode, you will hear from Päivi Sillanaukee, Special …
00:28:43 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
Europe: How are Slovenia, Germany and the Netherlands Envisioning Future Healthcare Digitalization?
If it seems that the world is moving faster and faster with the rapid evolution of AI and other technologies, the digitalization of healthcare infrastructure is not changing with that speed. However,…
00:50:30 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
LATAM Ep.2: Argentina: Great Medical Education System and Turbulent Political Instability
South America is a large market, with great potential from the language perspective, since Spanish is the official language in most countries, except for Brazil. But what are the specifics of the reg…
00:28:01 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Cerebral: The Future Potential in Mental Health Lies in Leveraging AI For Care Provision
Access to mental health services wasn’t great before the pandemic. Then two things happened: the need for mental health services increased. But so has access to telemedicine providers of mental healt…
00:54:52 |
Thu 18 May 2023
LATAM Ep. 1: How digital is Peru? (Jhonatan Bringas)
After a series about digital health in the APAC region, this is the first episode about healthcare and digital health in South America.
Speaker: Peruvian clinician and innovator Jhonatan Bringas Dim…
00:31:01 |
Sat 13 May 2023
Women's Health Globally: What Does It Mean in Different Cultures?
Women's Health has increasingly garnered attention, with growing research, investments, and discussions surrounding the topic. Although overall digital health investments experienced a decline last y…
00:50:19 |
Sun 07 May 2023
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