Welcome to a truly enlightening episode of the Fidelity SME Forum on Inspiration FM! 

We had the immense pleasure of hosting the brilliant Abimbola Adebakin, a certified Performance Technologist, pharmacist, management consultant, and tech innovator. 

In this captivating session, originally aired on Tuesday, August 8th, 2023, at 5:30 pm, Abimbola shared her insights on "Transforming Healthcare Access in Africa: Innovations, Challenges, and Impact."  
🌍 Africa faces significant healthcare challenges, but Abimbola is on a mission to drive positive change. She is the Founder and CEO of Advantage Health Africa, a powerhouse behind innovative healthcare solutions making waves across the continent. 

Abimbola's initiatives, including myPharmacy, a franchise pharmacy chain resource center, myMedicines, a tech-enabled last-mile access to medication, and myLabs, promoting molecular diagnosis services, are reshaping healthcare accessibility.  

💼 Abimbola's expertise goes beyond her business ventures. She's a mentor for WIMBIZ (Women in Business) and the Google Startup program. Through Advantage Health Africa, she spearheads The Pharmacists Leadership Stimulant Programme (www.theplsp.com), empowering young pharmacists in career stabilization and skills development, positively impacting over 500 pharmacists so far.  🎧 

Here's your chance to catch up on this incredible conversation! Tune in to Abimbola Adebakin's enlightening session as she shares her journey, experiences, and commitment to transforming healthcare access in Africa. Her insights are bound to inspire, educate, and empower. Click play and be part of this impactful discussion that promises to shape the future of healthcare in Africa.  

Thank you for joining us on this journey to learn, grow, and make a difference in the world of healthcare. Stay tuned for more thought-provoking episodes on the Fidelity SME Forum!

Transforming Healthcare Access in Africa: Innovations. Challenges, and Impact

Joe Selvaggi talks with neurobiologist and writer Dr. Anne Sydor about the potential for gene therapy to address deadly and debilitating diseases and how current health care models must adapt to encourage this nascent technology.

Episode 192: Genetic Therapy Revolution: Benefits and Barriers for Medicine’s New Horizon

The end of 2019 marked the completion of our third season of the HealthChangers podcast. We wanted to take a look back and revisit some of our fan favorite episodes of the year, all of which have a common theme – health and the good of the community.

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HealthChangers: Fan Favorite Episodes of 2019

In this episode, Dr. Steve Miff, President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) discusses how they build connected communities of care with a focus on cutting edge uses of data science, social determinants of health, and clinical expertise across clinical and healthcare community settings. Steve also speaks about his recent book - Building Connected Communities of Care – based on the experience at PCCI.

At PCCI, the belief is that data if done right has the power to galvanize the community, inform leaders, and empower people. According to Steve, healthcare is a complex, multi-year journey and having a connected community of care during a pandemic, such as COVID, is essential. To control the pandemic, we need better targeting of COVID hotspots, effective and efficient communication between healthcare providers and technology enablers, and connected services through referral directories. 

Steve stresses that while technology is a critical enabler for connected communities of care, there is a need to invest in robust backend data management infrastructure. Take a listen.

Data if done right, has the power to galvanize communities, inform leaders, and empower people.

In this episode, Dr. Steve Miff, President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) discusses how they build connected communities of care with a focus on cutting edge uses of data science, social determinants of health, and clinical expertise across clinical and healthcare community settings. Steve also speaks about his recent book - Building Connected Communities of Care – based on the experience at PCCI.

At PCCI, the belief is that data if done right has the power to galvanize the communities, inform leaders, and empower people. According to Steve, healthcare is a complex, multi-year journey and having a connected community of care during a pandemic, such as COVID, is essential. To control the pandemic, we need better targeting of COVID hotspots, effective and efficient communication between healthcare providers and technology enablers, and connected services through referral directories. 

Steve stresses that while technology is a critical enabler for connected communities of care, there is a need to invest in robust backend data management infrastructure. Take a listen.

COVID-19 has given us an opportunity to reset and create a better healthcare system

In this episode, Dr. Michael Bouton, Chief Medical Information Officer of New York City Health and Hospitals describes the significant changes that NYC H + H had to implement in their organization to deploy and integrate new technologies in response to the pandemic. NYC H + H installed hundreds of vital sign monitors linked to EMRs in the first few weeks of the pandemic and integrated them into the EHR system to enable caregivers with actionable, real-time information to address patient needs.

Dr. Bouton also discusses the challenges and opportunities of telehealth and other virtual care models that are transforming the quality of care delivery and interaction with patients and providers. He states that while no one wants to eliminate in-person visits altogether, video visits can increase low-intensity care quality. He believes the equilibrium between in-person and telehealth/ video visits will be determined by specialty-specific care in a post-pandemic era.

The equilibrium between in-person and video visits will be determined by specialty-specific care

In this episode, Puneet Maheshwari, CEO of DocASAP discusses their platform and their recent survey on consumer experience and attitudes to telehealth/ telemedicine. 

Puneet believes that frictionless patient access is critical for reducing costs and improving health outcomes. COVID-19 has been a very high impact phenomenon for the healthcare industry. Their recent survey on telehealth consumer experience reveals that the telemedicine adoption rate increased by 92%. However, we cannot think of telemedicine in a silo; we need to blend it into the overall care delivery continuum, which is a foundational piece that must be solved by healthcare providers in the future. 

According to Puneet, the reason telemedicine is here to stay and become a fundamental aspect of care delivery is because of its efficiency and effectiveness. The biggest takeaway from their recent research is that telemedicine is opening the door to the digital practice of medicine and a digital-first care delivery model.

Telemedicine will become a fundamental aspect of care delivery because of its effectiveness

In this episode, Marc Probst, who served as CIO of Intermountain Healthcare for 17 years, speaks about digital health technologies, telehealth, virtual visits, and how these will determine the future of healthcare.

According to Marc, the top technology trends that will define the future of healthcare are interoperability and digital health technologies. He says that technology in healthcare should meet the needs of the population that we serve; they should communicate with each other and responsibly share data. Marc describes digital health as facilitating what we do today using digital mechanisms like telehealth and moving towards full interaction with technology, where technology will provide knowledge, capability, and expertise.

COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare industry’s adoption of digital capabilities such telehealth. Marc suggest that the health systems needs to ‘become really good at integration’ for a seamless digital health experience.

To succeed with digital health is to become really good at technology integration

Digital health is about applying digital capabilities across the care continuum to maximize efficacy and experience.

In this episode, Pamela Arora, SVP and CIO of Children’s Health discusses how their holistic approach towards digital health is transforming the experience of their team members, providers, patients, and the whole continuum of care. At Children’s Health, digital health is about effectively applying digital capabilities across the continuum of care to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and experience. 

According to Pamela, by increasing the touchpoints and simplifying data across the care continuum healthcare organizations can deliver the three E's: efficiency, effectiveness, and experience. However, one of the challenges in achieving this digital engagement in healthcare involves the data itself. If an organization is taking a patient-centric approach, continuity of data is critical. To ensure data flows easily across the continuum of care, it is important to promote interoperability initiatives across the healthcare organizations. 

Technology is the key element in any digital program of an organization. Assessing the right technology at the right time is crucial to enhance patient as well as provider experience. Other aspects while evaluating technology is to consider its ease of adaptability and reliability among providers so that they can deliver a seamless patient experience. Pamela suggests health systems to keep advancing with new technologies and start with pilot first approach and then scale up the process.

Digital health is about applying digital capabilities across the care continuum to maximize efficacy

In this episode, Daniel Nigrin discusses how digital at Boston Children's Hospital is about transforming healthcare by improving the care experience for consumers, patients, families, and clinicians and their interaction with the health system. 

Digital transformations are disruptive for healthcare organizations. It leads to new ways of doing things and enables healthcare providers to care for patients in ways they have not done before. Being a children’s hospital, Boston Children's Hospital has to deal with the unique scenario of dealing with two sets of patient populations: the child and the parent or the caregiver. This necessitates the need to have a multidisciplinary approach to assessing any new technology. Daniel talks about digital program governance at Boston Children’s and has some practical advice for startups looking to partner on innovative approaches to digital health. 

Daniel also discusses emerging technologies, such as voice, that will play an essential role in healthcare, both in inpatient and home settings. Take a listen.

Data interaction with digital tools must be as easy and seamless as possible

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Stay up to date on current trends in healthcare's digital transformation. Featuring C-suite executives from the healthcare and technology sectors, podcast host Paddy Padmanabhan discusses how they are driving digital health innovation and leveraging emerging technologies to create the healthcare experiences of the future.

About the host: 
Paddy Padmanabhan is a widely published and quoted thought leader on digital transformation in healthcare. He is the author of The Big Unlock: Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era, and the CEO of Damo Consulting Inc, a digital transformation and growth advisory firm based in Chicago. You can follow him @paddypadmanabha and connect with him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddypadmanabhan99/.

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