Empowered Patient Podcast

Paddy Barrett, MD is a clinical scholar at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, host of the podcast The Doctor Paradox, and co-author of an article in The Lancet on the 200th anniversary of the invention of the stethoscope. Paddy talks about the early resistance to the use of the stethoscope, advancements in mobile ultrasound devices, and benefits for doctors and patients to see real-time pictures and not just depend on faint sounds heard only by the highly trained.

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The Doctor Paradox

To Truly Look Inside published in The Lancet

Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI)

Ray Kingman, CEO and Founder, Semcasting talks about how healthcare and insurance companies are using a more data driven approach to create and place ads in order to find patients, caregivers and doctors across all devices at the best time and place. Ray also explains how privacy of patients is assured while for example, using public information to identify and target consumers who are close to a specific hospital or doctor's office.

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Semcasting

Amy Blatt, biologist and international expert in geography, GIS and public health and author of Health, Science and Place: A New Model talks about the need to include where a person lives, works, and plays to understand their health, how geo-spatial medicine experts look at mass gatherings and the Rio 2016 Olympics, and that volunteered geographic health information is a big part of the citizen science movement.

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Health, Science and Place: A New Model

Paul Coates PhD, Director of the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) talks about why dietary supplements are considered food by the FDA and what that means for consumers, changing attitudes about the effectiveness of supplements including botanicals, and opportunities for nutrigenomics where research is focusing on identifying interaction between nutrients and the genome.

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Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know

Full List of Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets

Dietary Supplement Label Database

Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Thomas Cowan, holistic physician and author and founder of Dr. Cowan's Garden Powders on the need for eating roots, leaves and flowers from vegetables, why diversity in our diets matters, and lessons learned from traditional eaters who ate a wide range of seasonal vegetables. Dr. Cowan has created these vegetable powders to help people get more of the health benefits that plants have to offer in a convenient and potentially sneaky way.

Dr Cowans Garden

Stuart Tomc, Vice President Human Nutrition, CV Sciences on the consumer market for hemp-derived CBD oil as well as possibilities for pharmaceutical-grade cannabidiol extracts. With the relatively recent discovery of the central regulatory system called the Endocannabinoid System in the human body, Stuart talks about the promise of CBD to address a wide range of conditions.

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CV Sciences

Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri on working with international health organizations to apply spatial analysis to address emergencies, the spread of epidemics, and preventable diseases. Este also previews topics that will be included in the Esri International Users Conference June 27-July 1, 2016 in San Diego.

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#healthGIS

Esri

Nick Macchione, Director, Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego County, CA on the diversity of the population in San Diego with it's 4 distinct weather zones and threats of fires, extreme heat and earthquakes. Nick reveals how gathering data from a wide range of sources and using GIS data and predictive analytics is allowing them to see data-driven improvements in the health and safety of the citizens most at need.

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SanDiegoCounty.gov

Chris Fulcher PhD Director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri talks about the development of the Community Commons online tool using open data from federal and local sources to address Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA). Applying GIS and data visualization provides the kind of granularity needed to understand the complexity of the health of a community.

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Community Commons

Dr. Lidia Schapira, Editor-in-Chief Cancer.net and Fergal McGovern CEO Visible Thread on the challenge of getting patients and caregivers accurate health information that is accessible and understandable. Lidia and Fergal provide thoughtful observations about the challenges of providing accurate cancer related information to an international online audience on Cancer.net which was created by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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Cancer.net

Visible Thread