Welcome to Digital Health Unfiltered!&nbsp; In our first episode, we dive into the world of remote patient monitoring, and specifically, what tech support needs to accomplish, when patients-generated health data isn't flowing to the care team.&nbsp; WIll the patients be able to go to a Genius Bar in their local clinic for tech support? Will a Geek Squad van pull up outside a patient's home to troubleshoot the connection? Or are we just hoping the IT Help Desk will be able to file a ticket?&nbsp; In this episode, Nick is joined by Sudipto, Natalya, Darryl, Ricardo and Raj.

Geek Squad 2020

How should a patient get notified about a test result? How should a patient ask a question about those results? We know communication is critical to the doctor-patient interaction, but in digital health it's not as simple as it should be. The gang explores the complexity of digital health communication, and thinks about solutions.&nbsp;

Getting the Message

We're big believers in the potential for technology to reshape healthcare delivery, and we've come across great digital health companies that really impress us. But sometimes, the timing just isn't right, or something just prevents a partnership from taking off.&nbsp; In this episode Nick is joined by Darryl and Natalya - we each review a startup we loved, and think about what might have been.&nbsp;

What Might Have Been

Medication adherence is a growing part of digital health, aiming to promote patients actually taking their prescribed medications. With stakeholders including app and device developers, to Pharma, Insurance and hospital systems, there's increasing pressure to produce evidence that the tools work.&nbsp; Natalya talks with Nick, Tiffany and Sudipto about the literature, and the gang shares their perspectives on what works in the realm of med adherence.&nbsp;

Taking Your Medicine

Electronic Health Records and clinical decision support has remained remarkably simple for decades; there's great potential (and need) for AI to guide clinicians on tougher questions of patient care. But these advanced techniques have their own limitations - sometimes quite insidious - that can lead to bad decisions and worse care. Nick, Sudipto and Darryl discuss the problem of bias in AI, and new ways to hopefully address it.&nbsp;

Healthcare AI: Promise and Peril

Health outcomes in the US for people of color were already worse before COVID-19; the pandemic laid bare further disparities, with higher infection rates and mortality in this population.&nbsp; But COVID also prompted broad usage of telemedicine, and maybe, new opportunities to address healthcare disparities. Natalya, Darryl and Ricardo join Nick to discuss the technology's potential, and pitfalls, as digital health is deployed to improve health access, quality and ultimately, outcomes.&nbsp;

Disparities & Digital Health

Epic plus Microsoft. Cerner with Amazon. Meditech and Google. Major EHR vendors are pairing off with big tech companies - for their cloud capabilities, and maybe more.&nbsp; Sudipto and Tiffany join Nick to discuss this trend - what EHR vendors are hoping to gain from these new relationships, and what patients and providers can expect in terms of "smart" new features and improved productivity.&nbsp;

EHR + Big Tech

Most people still imagine telemedicine as a 2-way video conversation between a doctor and patient. But "asynchronous" care has also grown, offers some advantages, and may be better positioned to scale up during a pandemic.&nbsp; Darryl, Raj, Sudipto and Nick discuss these two models of telehealth, and how patients may digitally reach out to their clinicians in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Telemedicine

With more people receiving virtual care (telemedicine), it makes sense to leverage advanced voice analysis techniques to diagnose diseases - from pulmonary hypertension to dementia to COVID-19.&nbsp; In this episode, Nick &amp; Sudipto discuss the technology behind disease detection via voice, and how that tech could be integrated into telehealth workflows.&nbsp;

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