Empowered Patient Podcast

Brenda Wiederhold PhD, Executive Director, Virtual Realtiy Medical Center reveals how she is using bio-feedback and virtual reality technology to help patients overcome a fear of flying and other phobias and panic disorders, which patients are helped most by this treatment and creating new pathways in the brain.

@VirtualBrenda

VRPhobia

Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri highlights the value of visualization and maps to analyze health related data and why place matters when trying to understand individual as well as population health challenges.

@estegeraghty

Esri

Gary Conkright, CEO and Co-Founder, PhysIQ talks about seeing the body as a complex system, using machine learning technology to improve identification of early warning signs, creating personalized baseline body-function norms and the value of sensors that are providing ICU quality data.

@physIQ_health

PhysIQ

Donna Spruijt-Metz PhD, Director USC mHealth Collaboratory discusses the use of sensors and self-reported data to provide just in time adaptive intervention to address obesity particularly in children.

@MetzLab

Metz Lab

Walter De Brouwer, PhD, CEO, Scanadu talks about democratizing medicine by introducing consumer products that can test vital signs and vital fluids, the need to study health as it changes, and the value of real-time data in creating personalized baselines and influencing behavior.

@Scanadu

Scanadu

Adam Pellegrini, Vice President of Digital Health, Walgreens.com Motivating and rewarding healthy behavior by integrating personal data allows Walgreens to provide more convenient 24/7 service, popularity of scan to refill and other mobile app functions, and the changing role of the pharmacists.

Dr. Steven Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute stsiweb.org @SteveSteinhubl Preview of the upcoming Transforming Medicine: Evidence-Driven mHealth conference where the goal will be to jumpstart efforts to drive development of evidence-based mobile health solutions.

Tony Rindsberg, CMO, Soci meetsoci.com @meetsoci Using innovative content scoring model to improve quality of social media posts and engagement particularly for health related and rapid response online activities.

Dr. Glenn Wollman, Medical Guide and Host MagicalMedicalTour.com glennwollman.com Innovations in medical mobile apps, opportunities for doctors and patients to improve understanding of conditions and personalize care, and what makes a good medical mobile app.

Marni Bartlett, Ph.D., Founder and Lead Scientist, Emotient Emotient.com @emotientinc Study conducted by the University of California San Diego reveals value of using facial coding to better understand pain in children and using facial signals to detect genuine emotions and to reduce bias in treatment.