Digital Health Unfiltered
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTechnology is transforming healthcare - and it's up to us to implement the change. Tune in weekly to hear our insights from the front lines of digital health.
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Episodes
Sleep Tech with Drew Copeland
September 02, 2022 16:30 - 32 minutesSudipto and Nick catch up with sleep nerd Drew Copeland. We cover the latest in consumer sleep technology, talk about his process for separating hype from evidence, and when to steer people toward medical-grade diagnostics. Important Links: https://sleepbetter.nyc/about-us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Keeping Up with Medication Adherence
August 26, 2022 14:33 - 18 minutesMedication adherence used to be a significant aspect of digital health - there were always new pitches for apps and devices to review. Sudipto and Nick look at what happened to some of those companies, and why this sector has cooled off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apple & Amazon's Healthcare Moves
July 28, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutesTwo of the biggest companies on the planet have made some moves in healthcare this week - Apple released an information paper summarizing some of their accomplishments in health, fitness, medicine and research. And Amazon bought One Medical. Can tech giants save US Healthcare? Nick and Sudipto analyze, speculate, and issue some bold predictions. Important Links: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Health-Report-July-2022.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deepesh Chandra and the state of Digital Health today
July 07, 2022 20:23 - 29 minutesDeepesh Chandra is Chief Analytics Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health, and a driving force behind their new Accrete digital health ecosystem. Nick and Sudipto learned Deepesh's views of the state of the digital health industry in the US today, and how Accrete will help advance innovation and partnerships with health tech startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sword and Virtual PT
May 26, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutesDr. Vijay Yanamadala is the new CMO of Sword. Nick and Sudipto discuss Sword's approach to chronic pain - from sensors and remote monitoring, to coaching and mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Catching up with Kereeti
May 05, 2022 21:29 - 21 minutesKereeti Pisapati returns to the pod to discuss Oracle's purchase of Cerner and what that means for the EHR industry. We'll also talk about voice and cloud tech, and Google's plans for FitBit. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this episode reflect those of the speaker, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Mount Sinai Health System. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 4 D's of RPM
April 22, 2022 20:40 - 22 minutesWhat are the essential ingredients in a successful program for remote patient monitoring? Darryl Hollar joins Nick and Sudipto to discuss "the 4 D's of RPM". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Synthetic Data
December 09, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutesThere's a lot of buzz around Synthetic Data - but is the hype for real? Nick and Sudipto talk about the problems that synthetic data aims to solve in health IT, and whether generating a plausible fake population is as easy as vendors make it seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Making Digital Health Work for Patients and Clinicians
November 18, 2021 15:39 - 15 minutesTune in as Sudipto and Nick talk to Northwell's new Ambulatory CMIO (and old friend) Dr. Sophia Saleem. Can digital health improve patient care and engagement while simultaneously making clinician's lives easier? If anyone can thread this needle, it's Sophia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vaccine Passports
September 13, 2021 19:48 - 19 minutesAfter more than a year of rumors and development, vaccine passports are entering the mainstream. Sudipto and Nick look at the technology underlying the latest approach to control COVID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Catching Up With Kereeti
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutesKereeti Pisapati joins Nick and Sudipto to talk about Zus and the future of EHRs, and also compare notes on Teledoc and American Well's latest strategic moves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Digital Mental Health
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutesOur guest Elise Kohl Grant shares her perspective on digital mental health - the vendor landscape, the human element, who should pay, and where the industry is heading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Disrupting Sleep Tech
July 29, 2021 20:51 - 18 minutesSudipto and Nick dive deep into sleep technology - the latest moves from the tech giants, the evidence to date, and where we think this sleeper industry is headed. Important links: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/fcc-gives-amazon-greenlight-use-radar-monitoring-sleep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Funding Digital Health
July 23, 2021 13:41 - 28 minutesJessica Damassa joins Sudipto and Nick to discuss the wild world of funding health IT startups. Important Links: https://rockhealth.com/reports/q1-2021-funding-report-digital-health-is-all-grown-up/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Telehealth & Language
July 15, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutesNatalya Sholomyansky joins Nick and Sudipto to talk about her work bringing interpreter services to telemedicine encounters, at her institution. Important Links: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/mount-sinai-eases-translation-200-languages-through-its-epic-telehealth-platform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Closer to Home
July 08, 2021 16:56 - 14 minutesHouse calls, Hospital at Home, and taking health tech to the patient ... it's easy to get lost in the tech and business models, but the human element and home visits are playing a critical role in our digital health future. Sudipto and Nick review the history, and speculate on what models will scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21st Century Cures, and the Patient Portal
June 24, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes21st Century Cures Act is already making waves. But the most impactful change is yet to come: the API provisions go live next year. Will this put patients in the driver's seat for sharing data, and jumpstart health entrepreneurship? Nick and Sudipto make the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who pays for RPM?
June 18, 2021 13:22 - 17 minutesRemote Patient Monitoring is here - and it is proving its value in some settings. But whether RPM takes off will depend on reimbursement - not just how much, but how easy for providers and care teams to bill. Nick and Sudipto discuss the barriers to scaling RPM, the winners and losers thus far - and whether RPM blows up like telemedicine did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Digital Health: Fitting into Workflows
December 16, 2020 03:21 - 11 minutesSo you've finally contracted with a talented vendor making a high-tech new health gadget, and their device has gone through security review. Now you're ready for the hard part: training staff to enroll patients, monitor feeds, answer questions and perform maintenance. Darryl, Tiffany and Natalya join Sudipto to discuss why implementation is always the hardest part of IT Digital Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listening in on Telemedicine
December 09, 2020 04:01 - 12 minutesThe audio and video from telehealth visits isn't recorded, let alone processed and analyzed. But new companies claim they can help with documenting & coding of virtual visits. And sentiment analysis may uncover useful data about patient and physician attitudes, satisfaction, and risk. Raj, Darryl and Sudipto join Nick to discuss this technology, and whether we're likely to see it implemented in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Neuralink
December 01, 2020 22:24 - 15 minutesElon Musk's Neuralink technology can do some impressive things, and seems like a real boon to researchers. But Musk's predictions about treating brain disorders may just be hype. Tiffany, Nick, Natalya and Sudipto take a deeper look at brain implants today, and explore the medical (and consumer) future for wireless brain tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Voice analysis for disease detection
November 24, 2020 19:46 - 20 minutesWith more people receiving virtual care (telemedicine), it makes sense to leverage advanced voice analysis techniques to diagnose diseases - from pulmonary hypertension to dementia to COVID-19. In this episode, Nick & Sudipto discuss the technology behind disease detection via voice, and how that tech may be integrated into telehealth workflows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Telemedicine
November 17, 2020 23:37 - 13 minutesMost people still imagine telemedicine as a 2-way video conversation between a doctor and patient. But "asynchronous" care has also grown, offers some advantages, and may be better positioned to scale up during a pandemic. Darryl, Raj, Sudipto and Nick discuss these two models of telehealth, and how patients may digitally reach out to their clinicians in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
EHR + Big Tech
November 10, 2020 20:26 - 19 minutesEpic plus Microsoft. Cerner with Amazon. Meditech and Google. Major EHR vendors are pairing off with big tech companies - for their cloud capabilities, and maybe more. Sudipto and Tiffany join Nick to discuss this trend - what EHR vendors are hoping to gain from these new relationships, and what patients and providers can expect in terms of "smart" new features and improved productivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Disparities & Digital Health
November 03, 2020 17:50 - 20 minutesHealth outcomes in the US for people of color were already worse before COVID-19; the pandemic laid bare further disparities, with higher infection rates and mortality in this population. But COVID also prompted broad usage of telemedicine, and maybe, new opportunities to address healthcare disparities. Natalya, Darryl and Ricardo join Nick to discuss the technology's potential, and pitfalls, as digital health is deployed to improve health access, quality and ultimately, outcomes. Learn more...
Healthcare AI: Promise and Peril
October 27, 2020 16:27 - 19 minutesElectronic Health Records and clinical decision support has remained remarkably simple for decades; there's great potential (and need) for AI to guide clinicians on tougher questions of patient care. But these advanced techniques have their own limitations - sometimes quite insidious - that can lead to bad decisions and worse care. Nick, Sudipto and Darryl discuss the problem of bias in AI, and new ways to hopefully address it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Taking Your Medicine
October 20, 2020 17:58 - 17 minutesMedication adherence is a growing part of digital health, aiming to promote patients actually taking their prescribed medications. With stakeholders including app and device developers, to Pharma, Insurance and hospital systems, there's increasing pressure to produce evidence that the tools work. Natalya talks with Nick, Tiffany and Sudipto about the literature, and the gang shares their perspectives on what works in the realm of med adherence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
What Might Have Been
October 13, 2020 12:27 - 18 minutesWe're big believers in the potential for technology to reshape healthcare delivery, and we've come across great digital health companies that really impress us. But sometimes, the timing just isn't right, or something just prevents a partnership from taking off. In this episode Nick is joined by Darryl and Natalya - we each review a startup we loved, and think about what might have been. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Getting the Message
October 06, 2020 23:15 - 17 minutesHow should a patient get notified about a test result? How should a patient ask a question about those results? We know communication is critical to the doctor-patient interaction, but in digital health it's not as simple as it should be. The gang explores the complexity of digital health communication, and thinks about solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Geek Squad 2020
October 01, 2020 15:34 - 23 minutesIn our first episode, we dive into the world of remote patient monitoring, and specifically, what tech support needs to accomplish, when patients-generated health data isn't flowing to the care team. WIll the patients be able to go to a Genius Bar in their local clinic for tech support? Will a Geek Squad van pull up outside a patient's home to troubleshoot the connection? Or are we hoping the IT Help Desk will be able to file a ticket? Nick is joined by Sudipto, Natalya, Raj, Darryl and Ricar...