Empowered Patient Podcast

Penny Wing, CEO and Founder, Brojure talks about her start-up that gives hospice patients the ability to create multi-media presentations that can be shared and enhanced by friends and family.

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Brojure

John Audette, Co-Founder and President, Amplion talks about how biomarkers are starting to be used by pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies to create more effective drug treatments and tests that use liquid biopsies for early detection of cancer.

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#precisionmedicine

#biomarkers

Amplion

Sonny Beech, Senior Business Development, GIS Inc. talks about the reasons indoor navigation has been slow to catch on, how the technology that tracks sensors or smart phones indoors is being used for emergency response training, and innovative uses for tracking patients and caregivers in care facilities to spot troubling trends and ways to improve service.

@GISIncorporated

#Esri_health

@esri

GIS Inc.

Eric Klasson, CEO, Snaptrends talks about listening to social media to look for smarter ways to deploy first response resources in times of emergency. He also talks about social media tracking and Esri GIS tools that are being put into place to track the spread of the Zika virus through people who attend the Olympics in Rio.

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@esristartups

#Esri_health

Snaptrends

Chad Minteer, Mobile GIS Software Solutions Manager, Electronic Data Solutions talks about mosquito and other vector control efforts that are being aided by GIS tools, using geographic visualization to inform about threats to health like the Zika virus, and who is reporting and has access to mosquito activity data.

@esri_health

@esri_humanservices

Elecdata.com

Katija Lamia PhD is an assistant professor at The Scripps Research Institute and doing research into the connection between circadian clocks and metabolic disease and cancer. Her research has revealed that there are different internal biological clocks that govern every organ which might influence chronic diseases, weight gain and effectiveness of drugs.

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The Scripps Research Institute

Corinna Davidson, patient advocate, talks about her struggles with United Healthcare to get recommended care services for her husband with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease. Corinna reveals what she has learned about the lack of transparency and oversight for insurance companies when they are making life or death decisions.

@myUHC

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Carey Kauffman, CEO, Well Self 360 talks about the value of volunteers and the different roles they can play in the healthcare system, finding support groups for a wide range of disease states, and extending the care team to include family, friends, co-workers, and care givers.

Well Self 360

Andrew Su PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute and leader of the Su Lab looking at ways to apply bioinformatics approaches to biological discovery. Andrew talks about the tools the lab is developing to engage citizen scientists in discrete tasks that can be handled uniquely by humans and not computers.

@AndrewSu

@ScrippsResearch

@ScrippsSTSI

Scripps Research Institute

Su Lab

Mark2Cure.org

GeneGames.org

Dr. Glenn Wollman, medical guide and host of the Magical Medical Tour reveals there is no code for a death related to human error, on the public safety need to track and understand the cause of medical errors that result in death, and how patients need to educate themselves as the best defense against preventable errors.

Magical Medical Tour