Who Would Have Thought - Digital Health Innovation

In this episode, we welcome Yianni Serpanos, Founder & CEO of HealthTechX, a community dedicated to a world of integrated digital health empowerment for all. Yianni is also the Founder & CEO of a digital health practice management software for Australian Allied Health providers, coreplus.com.au. Based in Australia, he is focused on innovating culture to support health tech development for digital-first models of healthcare. Tune in to learn how Yianni is reimagining digital health innovation by bringing together healthcare providers, developers, investors, and advisors to discover, test, and launch health tech and healthcare innovations that empower better health for people around the globe. 

You’ll learn the next big opportunities and challenges in digital health integration, along with the fundamental healthcare and health tech methodologies that are expected to evolve over the next 5-10 years. 

 Yianni highlights the benefits of focusing on developing relationships between healthcare providers and patients, improving the quality of life for healthcare professionals, as well as the importance of meaningfully using of data, privacy, and security. He talks about how we can best leverage investors to fund these healthcare innovations and the power of collaboration between different innovators in healthcare. Plus, you’ll learn how healthcare professionals can implement interoperability to improve workflows, share relevant, meaningful information, and create a better patient experience.

 Curious to know Yianni’s candid thoughts on why cultural innovation is the biggest area of focus we should have in digital health in 2021 and beyond? Tune in to find out!  

To learn more about HealthTechX, visit: www.healthtechx.com.au

About Our Guest:

Yianni Serpanos is the Founder & CEO of HealthTechX. Yianni is a passionate digital health innovator, who has built leading digital health start-ups with the vision of modernizing and transforming the healthcare industry through health tech and cultural innovation.

Connect with Yianni on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yianni-serpanos 

In this episode, we welcome Cathy Tie, the Founder and CEO of Locke Bio, also known as the "Shopify for Pharma". At only 25 years of age, Cathy has founded several multi-million-dollar health technology companies. She was the youngest partner at a Silicon Valley VC, Cervin Ventures, as well as a recipient of The Thiel Fellowship. Tune in to explore the current environment of healthcare that’s ripe for e-commerce disruption, as well as how Cathy sees the world of health technology shifting in the coming years. She also educates us about Locke Bio, the new platform that allows any health enterprise to launch their own direct-to-consumer telehealth or online pharmacy brand (like Hims, PillPack, and Ro).

Cathy highlights her unconventional education path, which laid the foundation for her success in entrepreneurship and health technology, along with how the introduction of innovative platforms, such as Locke Bio, will impact the future of healthcare technology. Cathy gives insight into her experience as a VC partner in the Silicon Valley and shares wise words of advice to young women in science, leadership, and health technology.

Curious to know Cathy’s candid thoughts on what it takes to become a successful thought leader in the fields of science, technology, health, and entrepreneurship? Tune in to find out! 

To learn more about Locke Bio, visit www.lockebio.com

About Our Guest:

Cathy Tie is a researcher, two-time company founder and CEO, a Thiel Fellowship winner, and the youngest person to be hired as a partner at a Silicon Valley VC Firm. She is a true visionary for the health tech field and has been interviewed and featured by CNN Business and Forbes 30 under 30, paving the way for young women interested in becoming leaders in the world of science and health-technology.

At 25 years of age, she's founded several multi-million dollar health-tech companies, including Ranomics and her latest being Locke Bio, dubbed the "Shopify for Pharma."

Connect with Cathy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cathytie

In this episode, we welcome Lisa Gualtieri, Ph.D., Sc.M., associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. She’s also the founder of RecycleHealth, a non-profit that collects wearable activity trackers to donate to underserved populations. Dr. Gualtieri is empowering future leaders in the digital health industry through research and as an educator at Tufts. Tune in to explore Dr. Gualtieri's research, which focuses on the use of wearable activity trackers in underserved populations, the integration of tracker data into clinical care, and the impact of digital literacy skills on adoption of digital health by older adults. 

Lisa speaks on how and why health-seeking behaviors have changed during the course of the covid-19 pandemic, what she’s learning from working with the FDA and WHO to deploy wearable activity tracking technologies, and the importance of digital literacy, especially in older adults. She also describes the inspiration and learning objectives behind her innovative course at Tuft’s, Designing and Evaluating Digital Health Technologies, along with how this course prepares students for their post-graduate professions. 

Improving digital literacy skills and digital health innovation as the power to change the lives of many. Curious to know Lisa’s candid thoughts on what the future of digital healthcare innovation might look like? Tune in to find out! 

To learn more about RecycleHealth and to donate, visit: www.RecycleHealth.com

To donate an activity tracker, mail it to:

RecycleHealth

136 Harrison Ave

Boston, MA 02111

About Our Guest:

Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, is an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. She teaches courses including Digital Health, Digital Strategies for Health Communication, and Social Media and Health. Dr. Gualtieri's research focuses on the use of wearable activity trackers with underserved populations; the integration of tracker data into clinical care; and the impact of digital literacy skills on adoption of digital health by older adults. She is the founder of RecycleHealth, a non-profit that collects wearable activity trackers to donate to underserved populations, over 6,000 trackers to date.  Dr. Gualtieri serves on the FDA’s General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel.

Connect with Lisa on Twitter: www.twitter.com/lisagualtieri

In this episode, we welcome Natalie Yeadon, CEO and Co-Founder of Impetus Digital, a company that delivers virtual collaboration experiences for life science companies. Natalie is also the Host of the Healthcare Goes Digital Podcast and YouTube Channel and Author of The Healthcare Heretic. Tune in to explore the future opportunities in leadership, communication, and events as we dive into current insights on where the digital revolution of healthcare is headed. 

Natalie speaks on the rapid shifts in technology, business, and healthcare happening now and into the next decade, as well as what she’s learning from other leaders and innovators in these fields. She ensures us that if there’s any silver lining to covid-19, it’s that it has given us an opportunity to assume a beginner’s mindset, bring people together to innovate, and to move away from sickness care and towards wellness care.

Natalie also sheds light on how virtual events and conferences will be held in 2021 and beyond, sharing shocking statistics from virtual event attendance and participation in 2020.  

Innovation is embedded in healthcare and life science. Curious to know Natalie’s candid thoughts on what the future might look like ten years from now, including the potential for self-diagnosing and democratizing the monetization of patient data? Tune in to find out!

To learn more about Impetus Digital, visit www.impetusdigital.com

About Our Guest:
Natalie Yeadon has over 18 years' experience working in a variety of senior roles in the pharmaceutical industry. She is the Co-founder and CEO of Impetus Digital, where she specializes in helping life science clients virtualize their internal and external meetings and events.

In this episode, we welcome Ian Marks, Senior R&D Innovation Leader and Global Vice President of Life Sciences at Salesforce, a leading software company committed to transforming healthcare. Ian is leading the push to reimagine healthcare and build strategic capabilities that improve patients' lives. Tune in to discover the innovation initiatives that are currently fueling the digital transformation of healthcare. We dive into the future of personalized, patient-centered healthcare and the impacts Salesforce is having on the advancement of life sciences. 

Ian speaks on how the healthcare system is moving from reactive to proactive and predictive, the main issues his team will be focusing on in 2021, and how Salesforce is working to improve pharmaceutical distribution models and increase compliance for better outcomes, especially with the covid-19 vaccine. 

He also gives insight into how healthcare and pharmaceutical companies can increase patient-centric solutions, emphasizing awareness, education, supporting diagnosis and treatment through healthcare providers, and ongoing engagement to ensure patient compliance. 

Curious to know Ian’s candid thoughts on the future of life sciences and innovation? Tune in to find out!

About Our Guest:

Ian Marks is a senior executive with over 25 years in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare industry. He has extensive experience delivering breakthrough innovations, leading disruptive initiatives, cultivating unorthodox partnerships, and building strategic capabilities that improve patients' lives and drive business value. His experience encompasses research and development, project management, clinical research and operations across Pharma and Consumer Healthcare. He has successfully leveraged ‘breakthrough’ results and superior performance to effectively merge patient insights, digital innovation, product development and compelling scientific discovery that identifies new products and experiences.

In this episode, we welcome Jo Bhakdi, Founder & CEO of Quantgene, a company that is unleashing the power of the Deep Human Genome by building and deploying the world’s leading Deep Genomics solution. Jo and his team have quickly created next-day 99.9% accurate COVID-19 testing solutions for individuals and institutions and he’s here today to talk about that incredible accomplishment. As the go-to testing supplier in Los Angeles, he’s even helped the film industry get up and running again after the pandemic halted production and they’ve expanded to other cities as well. He delves into why covid-19 was beneficial in fostering the creation and growth of start-ups, specifically in the technology and healthcare fields, and details the fundamentals and importance of the Serenity genetics engine. Jo also speaks on his ventures in creating i2X, a new framework for investing in tech startups, and divulges some of his key principals of innovation.

Want to learn what the future of medicine and healthcare looks like with these advancements in technology? Curious to know Jo’s perspective on what innovations we may see in the next decade? Tune in to find out! 

About Our Guest:

Jo Bhakdi is the Founder and CEO of Quantgene, an innovative technology company whose mission is to extend the healthy human lifespan by 10 years within the next 10 years. He leads a team of 22 that is growing quickly and he has raised $13 million to date, expecting to end next year with more than 10,000 members.

Follow Jo on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JOBhakdi

Follow Quantgene on Twitter: www.twitter.com/quantgene

To learn more about Quantgene, visit www.quantgene.com 

It has been a wild year full of the unexpected yet digital health innovators didn't stop pushing. We are grateful to have had many conversations this year with those driving the transformation of healthcare, laying a foundation for the next decade of optimized care.

In this episode our hosts Robert and Sacha review the podcast episodes from 2020 and share their favorite moments and insights that we hold with us into 2021. Every guest on the Who Would Have Thought podcast is making waves in digital health innovation and disrupting what we thought possible. Today is a very special show, as we will recap the extraordinary guests and conversations we’ve had on the show throughout 2020. Ready to expand your view of digital health for 2021? Listen in to this powerful episode.

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SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Tina Aswani Omprakash, public health advocate, speaker, and the world-renowned, award-winning blogger behind Own Your Crohn’s. Tina courageously shares her powerful story of living with Crohn’s disease and why she decided to come out to her community about the severity of her condition. She tells us about her impactful role as an advocate and we explore how patient advocates can work together with medical startups to fuel patient-centered innovation and develop breakthrough technologies that tackle the unmet needs of IBD / Crohn’s patients. 

Curious about what’s possible in the field of IBD healthcare with the recent advancements of digital technology? Tune in to find out! Tina also shares valuable advice for newly diagnosed IBD / Crohn’s disease patients, particularly regarding the mental adjustment it requires, as well as her vision of hope for the future of treatment.

About Our Guest:

Tina is a respected public health advocate and has been a Crohn’s patient for almost 15 years. Known globally for her award-winning blog, Own Your Crohn’s, Tina is an avid speaker and advocate for chronic illnesses, disabilities, and life-saving ostomy surgery.

Visit Tina’s website: www.ownyourcrohns.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ownyourcrohns 

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ownyourcrohns 

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ownyourcrohns

In this episode, SmartTab’s Founder and CEO,  Robert Niichel welcomes Kent Thiry, Former chairman and CEO of DaVita. In 2018, Kent founded a CEO group, called Colorado Thrives, focused on advancing the quality of life of all Coloradans. Kent is here to highlight Colorado Thrives’ goals of advancing Colorado as an inspiring and inclusive community known globally for innovation, collaboration, and overall well-being. He shares the inspiration that drives Colorado Thrives and their vision to take Denver and Colorado to the next level of innovation and wellbeing. Kent touches on the Economic Mobility focus of the organization and the specific initiatives they’re working on and will be working on in the coming years.

There are many early stage companies, digital technology and healthcare startups in Colorado working on innovative solutions to tackle many of the world’s problems. What steps can these companies take to grow and evolve in the next 5-10 years? What does that mean for the expansion of Colorado’s future as an innovation hub? How do we leverage the talents of the bright young people in Colorado to accomplish those goals? Tune in to learn more!

More Information on Colorado Thrives:
https://www.coloradothrives.org/

Connect with Kent Thiry on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kent-thiry-0a996298/

In this episode, we explore how advancements in artificial intelligence can empower physicians to address unmet needs, both with COVID-19 and beyond. Biocogniv is leading the effort by building the largest model for COVID-19 screening, making AI-powered diagnostic software for hospitals. Combining software engineering and academic research to address the needs of hospital systems with AI. We welcome CEO, Artur Adib, PhD and Chief Medical Scientist, Dr. George Hauser of Biocogniv. The duo details how AI can support healthcare in the short-term and long-term by empowering doctors with AI.

Artur Adib, PhD is a former faculty member at the National Institutes of Health with over 20 peer-reviewed publications, Artur has built the flight controller software for the world's largest electric "flying car", has helped Twitter scale its revenues from under $100M to over $2B, and presently leads the vision and AI at Biocogniv.

Dr. Hauser earned his MD from Yale University School of Medical and completed his Clinical Pathology training at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is the author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications and specializes in research involving artificial intelligence and electronic health records. He is the Chief Medical Scientist at Biocogniv.

Contact Biocogniv:
https://biocogniv.com/

Connect with Artur Adib by Email:
[email protected]