Hi, this is Nick Webb and welcome to another episode of The Healthcare Cure. You know, today is kind of an exciting program for us. It's our first video of the podcast we wanted to add this to our V log to be able to make it available to those who want to be able to have the element of video within the podcast. So welcome to our video watchers and, and welcome back our podcast listeners. 

Today we're going to talk about something that is that I'm very, very passionate about and that's digital health generically. One of the areas that that fascinates me is the area of continuous patient monitoring. And I know that a lot of people, they hear that and they immediately start thinking how Orwellian it would be to be monitored 24 hours a day. But I think as we start to look at the incredible life saving benefits of continuous patient monitoring, we'll begin to we'll begin to realize that the benefits are far greater. And I always like to give the example of Amazon. Just a few decades ago, there were many experts, financial analysts and business analysts that ensured that Amazon was going to fail because nobody would ever risk putting their credit card on the internet. Well, it worked out okay for Amazon. And my point is, is that today, there is a general concern that your data, your health data could be made available in some way that could be injurious to a patient. But with blockchain and other encryption technologies, in combination with many new other opportunities to to really protect that data. I sense that that really will not be a problem. Also, the exciting part of this is that patients will actually be able to monetize their data by selling their data to insurance companies or drug companies and the like. So continuous monitoring is definitely going to happen. I believe that that continuous monitoring will be an in ear technology because we're moving towards the Internet of the voice, right? The idea of typing something is you know, so 2020. What we want to do is to be able to communicate using normal human language. And that's why Amazon is embedding Alexa in just about everything from cars to telephone, I mean televisions and the list goes on and on. Right? So the Internet of the voice is where we want to go. And that's why we need to have that sensor technology in the ear so we can provide bi directional patient communication. It's also a great place to be able to get blood pressure now with new sensor technology, core body temperature, and this whole new body of study around the concept of head movement AI, we're beginning to realize that head movement is the ultimate place to be able to get total body movement when compared to the wrist which provides erroneous and and incomplete data. 

So at any rate, what today what we're going to talk about is hospitals and clinics, how we can look at these hospitals and clinics in a way that allows us to get data that we can use to improve safety, improve efficacy, improve patient flow, improve everything. Now, one of the things that you have to do if you want to fix this problem, and I recently I spoke at the chime event, and I made a proclamation at that event in front of thousands of people, that hospitals are technology organizations that happen to deliver safe and efficacious care. And a lot of people send me emails saying, 'You monster, how could you say that hospitals are nothing more than technology companies?' Well, the truth of the matter is, is that of course we need good caregivers and that's the centerpiece of a hospital or clinic. But in today's with the opportunities that we have today, it would be negligent not to leverage these different disparate data sets to be able to improve the quality and safety of patient care plain and simple. And that will continue. So the process of doing this right from my perspective is that you go on a data safari, and you crawl around your enterprise to find out where data lives.