Digital Orthopaedics Conference (DOCSF)

Our guest:

In this episode, we speak with Robert Cohen, VP of Global R&D, Chief Technology Officer at Stryker Joint Replacement. Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies, and is leading the development of new ways to transform and enhance the technology available in musculoskeletal care.  

Robert shared some insights on the work Stryker is doing to improve surgical practice as well as capture more and better data about patient outcomes. We dive into the latest information about surgical robots, wearable sensors, and data, and explore the advances that may develop over the next 10 years.  

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The Venue:

This conversation was recorded at DOCSF in January 2020, the weekend before #JPM Week in San Francisco. DOCSF is all about the intersection of digital health and musculoskeletal care.

This year, the sessions featured leaders from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Amazon and many other amazing organizations, and Dan Kendall interviewed some of the speakers following their sessions on the stage. This special series of episodes features some of the interviews recorded at this annual event. To hear all the sessions on the DOCSF podcast, be sure to subscribe to the DOCSF Podcast here or visit Health Podcast Network.

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Our guest:

In this episode, we hear from Molly K. McCarthy MBA, BSN, RN-BC. Molly is the National Director, US Provider Industry and Chief Nursing Officer for Microsoft. Molly shares her path that led her from from nursing to technology leadership. Molly discusses the use of the HoloLens, education and the 3 key business areas at Microsoft Health, which are:

1) Helping clients migrate to the cloud

2) Helping to empower frontline clinicians

3) Thinking about AI as it applies to further development of precision medicine.

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Molly McCarthy on LinkedIn  •  Twitter

Smart Equipment Mgmt (Stryker)

HoloLens in Germany (Virtual Surgery Intelligence)

Microsoft Health  Website •  Twitter 

The Venue:

This conversation was recorded at DOCSF in January 2020, the weekend before #JPM Week in San Francisco. Now in its fourth year, the Digital Orthopedics Conference, San Francisco, is organized by Prof Stefano Bini and Shawna Butler. This year, the sessions featured leaders from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Amazon and many other amazing organizations, and Dan Kendall interviewed some of the speakers following their sessions on the stage. This special series of episodes features some of the interviews recorded at this annual event. To hear all the sessions on the DOCSF podcast, be sure to subscribe to the DOCSF Podcast here or visit Health Podcast Network.

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The DOCSF meeting is a great way to get geared up before #JPM Week in San Francisco. Now in its fourth year, the Digital Orthopedics Conference, San Francisco, is organized by Prof Stefano Bini and Shawna Butler. This year, the sessions featured leaders from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, AmazonCare and many other amazing organizations. Dan Kendall, host of the Digital Health Today podcast, interviewed some of the speakers following their sessions on the stage.

This special series of episodes features some of the interviews recorded at this annual event. To hear all the sessions on the DOCSF podcast, be sure to subscribe to the DOCSF Podcast here.

Our guest:

In this episode, Dan Kendall spoke with Dr. Daniel Kraft. Dr. Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine for Singularity University since its inception in 2008. He is also founder and chair of Exponential Medicine (next being held November 9-12, 2020), a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. 

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Daniel Kraft on LinkedIn  •  Personal Website  •  NEW! Digital.Health Website

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On this podcast we dive into policy and its impact on healthcare. We were very fortunate to have Dr. Tom Barber from UCSF leading the panel. Tom was the chair of the Council for Advocacy for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and his experience roaming the halls of congress coupled to his personal interest in health care policy made him a perfect person to bring our audience up to date with policy issues relevant to health care. Let’s join Tom as he introduces his panel of experts on the stage at DOCSF 2019, namely Catherine Boudreaux Hays from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dale C. Van Demark from McDermott Will & Emory law firm in Washington D.C. , and Mahek Shah from Harvard Business School.

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Today, we will take a deep dive into one company that has build a sensor with a very specific goal and taken it to market. We pick up the story with Dr. Peter Schilling and his amazing panel of experts in one of the breakout rooms at DOCSF 2019 as they introduce the team from Orthosensor.

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The use of sensors in healthcare and in particular in Orthopedics is very hot which is why the second of our Focus Lectures is dedicated to sensors. In this next segment we asked Duncan Bradley, Dr. Ashish Atreja and Dan Kendall. Duncan Bradley, from McLaren, the automotive company, discusses how sensors revolutionized his industry, starting with F1 cars. It is an instructive story for technology changed the game for an entire industry. Dr. Ashish Atreja, the CIO at MountSinai, shares his vision of how sensor data will impact the delivery of care. This session is moderated by Dan Kendall, the host and founder of Digital Health Today, the leading digital health podcast.

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Today on our fourth podcast, we will join our friend, the incomparable Matthew Holt who co-founded the conference Health 2.0, as he interviews three guests: Dr. Sharat Kusuma, Arie Meir, and Dr. Daniel Kraft. Dr. Kusuma is an orthopaedic surgeon who spearheaded the Apple Watch partnership with Zimmer/Biomet to use sensors to track patient recovery. Arie Meir from Google Cloud Services shares how Google is building a cloud services ecosystem for healthcare. Dr. Daniel Kraft the founder and chair of Exponential Medicine speaks about the Internet of Orthopedic Things

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Join our audience as we take a deep dive into Blockchain and how it will impact healthcare with the amazing and inspirational Sam DeBrouwer, CEO of DOC.ai. Like 5G and artificial intelligence, there is a lot of hype around blockchain. Sam will tell you why, in fact , that hype may be justified. Let’s return to the stage of DOCSF2019 where Rajit Kamal a leader in innovation at JNJ introduces Sam De Brouwer.

Having set the stage for what robots can do for us in healthcare in the previous episode, we are now going to jump in to one of the break out rooms at DOCSF 2019 where UCSF’s Dr. Aenor Sawyer moderated a session with Aethon, a robotics company from Pittsburgh that has deployed hundreds of automated hospital roaming robots called TUGs all over the country to transport everything from food trays to medications in a completely automated fashion.

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The speakers in this episode are Dr. Scott Hammond, Dr. Manish Kothari, and Dr. Rasu Shrestha. 

Dr. Hammond is a Neurosurgeon with extraordinary experience in System biology and Robotics who at the time was associated with the Smarter Health team at UCSF. He is followed by Dr. Manish Kothari, the famed President of the Stanford Research Institute who has launched many health related startup and done a great deal of work on exoskeletons.

This session is moderated by Dr. Rasu Shrestha currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Atrium Health and a legendary innovator when previously at UPMC in Pittsburgh as their CIO. You’re in for a treat!

Enjoy the talks!

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