Digital Orthopaedics Conference (DOCSF)

How are biases present in orthopedic surgery?

This is the main discussion topic with Dr. Melissa Zimel, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Oncology at UCSF. Bias is defined as prejudice in favor of or against someone or something. She reflects on the concept of conscious and unconscious bias too, and the implications it can have on the community. She shares that one can train its brain to identify these implicit biases and then applies this to an orthopedic surgeon. Biases are normal; sometimes, we don’t even know we have them. Dr. Zimel shares her thoughts about this topic, not only in private practice or academic settings; But on hiring processes, school applications, and more. 

Biases are intrinsic to human nature. However, we can work to be more aware and eradicate them to improve our practice. 

Welcome to the DocSF21 experience audio tour!

This podcast is for you to discover and get to know the DOCSF21 events thoroughly. DOCSF21 is focused on two key things: AI and Patient experience. Its purpose is to bring people together and create a community for a better future. From applied AI to innovation, to a Bone Tank and Voices of DOCSF21, you will get wonderful conversations throughout different topics. By the hand of wonderful speakers and guests, the best in their field, get the nuts and bolts of new digital solutions in musculoskeletal care.

Join Stefano Bini, the founder of DOCSF21, during this and the following episodes, and discover the amazing advancements of DocSF! 

Welcome to the DocSF21 experience audio tour!

This podcast is for you to discover and get to know the DocSF21 events thoroughly. DocSF21 is focused on two key things: AI and Patient experience. Its purpose is to bring people together and create a community for a better future. From applied AI to innovation to a Bone Tank and Voices of DocSF, you will get wonderful conversations throughout different topics. By the hand of wonderful speakers and guests, the best in their field, get the nuts and bolts of new digital solutions in musculoskeletal care.

Join Stefano Bini, the founder of DocSF21, during this and the following episodes, and discover the amazing advancements of DocSF! 

Healthcare is in transition, not just in the U.S. but in Europe as well. The COVID pandemic has sped up the transition to digital medicine and it would be interesting to know how other countries are dealing with the transition. In this episode, we are privileged to hear from Roberto Ascione, CEO at Healthware Group, a next-generation integrated consulting group that has been supporting life sciences companies, healthcare stakeholders, and start-ups to navigate the transformation in healthcare, from strategy to technology.  

Roberto discusses what's happening in the world of digital health in Europe. He shares with us his company's partnership with Frontiers Health and what they did to produce an interesting and dynamic conference despite the distance and the number of participants. He talks about large-scale adoptions in Europe, digital therapeutics, and the importance of designing solutions in partnership with venture capital companies. 

Roberto also shares the possible challenges he foresees and where Frontiers is going in the next couple of years. There's so much to learn from this episode on the work that Frontiers and DOCSF are doing to help improve outcomes in healthcare, so please tune in!

Welcome to DOCSF365, a website committed to bringing digital health to musculoskeletal care. We believe you can find in this site knowledge and skills you need to lead digital innovation in your practice. 

In this short introduction, our host, Stefano Bini welcomes you to the site and shares his goals and plans to bring Digital Orthopedics to your fingertips. On the DOCSF365 site, you will find the best-curated content from the most respected voices in digital health, modular segments that can be consumed live or on-demand, courses on specific topics like machine learning and robotics, and masterclasses from world-class consulting firms. 

This site will feature the most innovative thinkers of our time, and we look forward to having you visit us on the site. 

We've had the COVID-19 pandemic for only three to four months now, but it has drastically changed much of life as we know it. The coronavirus cleared calendars, emptied restaurants, and wreaked havoc on local and national economies. It's like a bad movie that keeps going, and the ending is not yet in sight. Yet despite all of its negative consequences, we are learning some powerful lessons — Lessons that can be applied to whatever challenge we face, whether pandemics, floods, and earthquakes. 

Nice segue way to the title of the last session, right? For this episode, we have Dr. Tom Barber again as our guest. He was in one of the previous sessions before, as well. 

Together with Shawna and Dr. Barber, we discuss things we have learned from this COVID-19 era that we can apply to the future. We tackled the idea of having responsive committees, leadership, communication, flexibility, preparation, telemedicine, and many other possible solutions. Dr. Barber, is a great communicator, and he expressed his ideas clearly.  

Tune in to learn lessons we've learned and how we can apply them in the future!

Today's Guests

Thomas Barber

Dr. Thomas Barber is the Associate Deputy Physician in Chief, Perioperative Services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Before Memorial Sloan, he was a professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a recognized health care leader. Thomas received his bachelor's degree at Harvard University and his MD at the University of Rochester. 

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Do you think that the ease of spread and the wide infection rate of COVID-19 is influenced by technology? Was the pandemic a wake-up call to the healthcare system?

These are some of the questions we will answer in today's session. Our special guest is Kevin Schulmer, one of the authors of the recently published article 'COVID-19 and Health Care's Digital Revolution' in The New England Journal of Medicine. He wrote that 'the spread of COVID-19 is a product of the digital and technological revolution that has transformed our world over the past century'. 

In this interview, he discusses the healthcare response in the time of Covid. He talks about the impact of analog medicine, using digital technologies for care, patient's perspective in the new kind of care, policies and regulations, the possibility of tailored recommendations, and more. 

You'll definitely want to tune in to this episode where Kevin helps us see a vision of the new horizon of orthopedic care and what we need to do to adjust. 

Today's Guest

Dr. Schulman is a Professor of Medicine, and a Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in June, 2018. His interests include organizational innovation in health care, health care policy and health economics. 

Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Schulman served as a Professor of Medicine at Duke University, directed the Health Sector Management Program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business for a dozen years, created and directed the Duke University Master’s of Management in Clinical Informatics Program, and served as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School.

He is a co-founder of Bivarus (exit January, 2018), co-founder and Managing Member of Faculty Connection, LLC., and is a Board Member of Grid Therapeutics.

(Bio from https://profiles.stanford.edu/kevin-schulman)

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Reference:

https://profiles.stanford.edu/kevin-schulman

While our brave healthcare workers continue to fight against the spread of the  COVID pandemic, the healthcare industry as a business is suffering. The widespread economic shutdown enforced to reduce the risk of transmission affected hospitals and healthcare providers. 

Today's session focuses on the current healthcare economy (and what's left of it). We feature Dr. Kevin Bozik, Professor and Chair of Surgery and Operative Care at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas, and James Robinson, UCB Professor of Health Care Economics. They discuss the shapes of economic recovery, the impact of the economy on healthcare and insurance systems, the downside of U.S. government spending trillions of dollars on a short-term cure, and more. Jamie also shared his insights on the economic response and recovery of Europe and China compared to the U.S.

Economy and healthcare are fascinating topics, and our guests' knowledge and insights were clearly communicated in this session. If you're wondering what's going to happen to your practice in the next weeks and months while the coronavirus spread is still going on, you really need to tune in to this conversation!

Today’s Guests

Kevin Bozic

Kevin Bozic is a professor and chair of surgery and perioperative care at the Dell Medical School at UT Austin. He is a recognized leader in orthopedic care. Before joining the Dell Medical School, he was a professor and vice care of orthopaedic surgery at the UCSF School of Medicine and core faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University where we graduated magna cum laude. He received his M.D. with a thesis degree from UCSF, finished his orthopaedic surgery residency training in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, and additional fellowship training in adult reconstructive surgery from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Bozic also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (HBS). 

James Robinson

James Robinson is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Public Health at the UC Berkeley, where he has the title of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Health Economics and Policy. Robinson is also the Chair of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology which supports research and professional education projects related to coverage, management, and payment methods for innovative technologies including biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics.

Professor Robinson has published three books and over 120 papers in scientific and policy journals.  

Key TakeAways:

https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/people/james-robinson/

https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/kevin-bozic

We shop, do bank transactions, study, play, and do many other things online. So why not do doctor consultations online?  

U.S. healthcare has been slowly inching towards telehealth over the past couple of years, but

the arrival of the COVID pandemic pushed telemedicine to the forefront. To limit the spread of the virus, telemedicine became an excellent choice for those seeking a consultation but cannot visit the doctor's office.

In this special episode with Ann Mond Johnson, CEO at ATA, and Joe Kvedar, discuss the state of telehealth with a particular focus on orthopedics. They share their insights on telemedicine's impact on both orthopedics and patients, improving the efficiency of care delivery, integrating wearables and remote monitoring in zoom and other online platforms, and more. 

Shawna, Ann, and Joe had plenty to talk about, so you'll definitely find this episode very interesting!

Today's Guests

Ann Mond Johnson

Ann Mond Johnson is the CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. Before joining the ATA, she served as CEO of Zest Health, a technology-enabled service, for two years. She was also asked to be a Board Chair and Advisor to ConnectedHealth, a leading provider of private insurance exchanges; and as co-founder and CEO of Subimo, a pioneer in healthcare cost and quality decision support tools for consumers. Ann began her healthcare data and information career as Senior Vice President at Sachs Group (now part of IBM Watson/Truven Health). She also worked at a multi-hospital system in Minneapolis, which is now part of Allina.

Joe Kvedar

Dr. Joe Kvedar is a board-certified dermatologist and Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

In addition to his clinical role, Dr. Kvedar is also Vice President, Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, where he is creating a new model of healthcare delivery that moves care from the hospital or doctor's office into the day-to-day lives of patients. Partners Connected Health programs are helping providers and patients better manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness, and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. He is the author of two books on the subject: The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan (2017) and The Internet of Healthy Things (2015).

Dr. Kvedar graduated from University of Vermont, College of Medicine, and completed his residency in dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Kvedar is a past President and board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and Past Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Task Force on Telemedicine.

There is no doubt that COVID-19 is the ultimate disruptor and accelerator of 2020. It has disrupted almost all aspects of our lives, especially healthcare, and though we'll find a cure, we will never be the same as before.

In this episode, we'll learn the changes to individual orthopedics practices and the changes the academy is implementing to cope with the aftereffect of the pandemic. 

We are honored to feature Dr. Joe Bosco, the president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Joe discusses how we are going to survive in the post COVID-19 era, of the accelerated trends in healthcare consolidation, distance learning, shift to outpatient care, and more telemedicine. 

Get ready for the new normal with the help of ideas you'll get from this podcast! Tune in and listen to the fantastic Dr. Joe Bosco today. 

Today's Guest

Joseph A. Bosco III, MD, is the current president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Prior to this assignment, he served as the first vice-president of the academy. Dr. Joe is also a professor and vice-chair for the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NYU Langone Health. He specializes in sports medicine, total knee replacement, shoulder and elbow surgery.

Dr. Bosco earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and attended the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in orthopaedics at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and his fellowship in adult reconstructive surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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Resources:

https://www.aaos.org/aaosnow/2020/apr/youraaos/youraaos03/