Digital Health Unfiltered

Sudipto and Nick catch up with sleep nerd Drew Copeland. We cover the latest in consumer sleep technology, talk about his process for separating hype from evidence, and when to steer people toward medical-grade diagnostics. Important Links: https://sleepbetter.nyc/about-us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medication adherence used to be a significant aspect of digital health - there were always new pitches for apps and devices to review. Sudipto and Nick look at what happened to some of those companies, and why this sector has cooled off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two of the biggest companies on the planet have made some moves in healthcare this week - Apple released an information paper summarizing some of their accomplishments in health, fitness, medicine and research. And Amazon bought One Medical. Can tech giants save US Healthcare? Nick and Sudipto analyze, speculate, and issue some bold predictions. Important Links: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Health-Report-July-2022.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deepesh Chandra is Chief Analytics Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health, and a driving force behind their new Accrete digital health ecosystem. Nick and Sudipto learned Deepesh's views of the state of the digital health industry in the US today, and how Accrete will help advance innovation and partnerships with health tech startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Vijay Yanamadala is the new CMO of Sword. Nick and Sudipto discuss Sword's approach to chronic pain - from sensors and remote monitoring, to coaching and mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kereeti Pisapati returns to the pod to discuss Oracle's purchase of Cerner and what that means for the EHR industry. We'll also talk about voice and cloud tech, and Google's plans for FitBit. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this episode reflect those of the speaker, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Mount Sinai Health System. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are the essential ingredients in a successful program for remote patient monitoring? Darryl Hollar joins Nick and Sudipto to discuss "the 4 D's of RPM". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a lot of buzz around Synthetic Data - but is the hype for real? Nick and Sudipto talk about the problems that synthetic data aims to solve in health IT, and whether generating a plausible fake population is as easy as vendors make it seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in as Sudipto and Nick talk to Northwell's new Ambulatory CMIO (and old friend) Dr. Sophia Saleem. Can digital health improve patient care and engagement while simultaneously making clinician's lives easier? If anyone can thread this needle, it's Sophia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After more than a year of rumors and development, vaccine passports are entering the mainstream. Sudipto and Nick look at the technology underlying the latest approach to control COVID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kereeti Pisapati joins Nick and Sudipto to talk about Zus and the future of EHRs, and also compare notes on Teledoc and American Well's latest strategic moves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Elise Kohl Grant shares her perspective on digital mental health - the vendor landscape, the human element, who should pay, and where the industry is heading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sudipto and Nick dive deep into sleep technology - the latest moves from the tech giants, the evidence to date, and where we think this sleeper industry is headed. Important links: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/fcc-gives-amazon-greenlight-use-radar-monitoring-sleep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Damassa joins Sudipto and Nick to discuss the wild world of funding health IT startups. Important Links: https://rockhealth.com/reports/q1-2021-funding-report-digital-health-is-all-grown-up/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalya Sholomyansky joins Nick and Sudipto to talk about her work bringing interpreter services to telemedicine encounters, at her institution. Important Links: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/mount-sinai-eases-translation-200-languages-through-its-epic-telehealth-platform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

House calls, Hospital at Home, and taking health tech to the patient ... it's easy to get lost in the tech and business models, but the human element and home visits are playing a critical role in our digital health future. Sudipto and Nick review the history, and speculate on what models will scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21st Century Cures Act is already making waves. But the most impactful change is yet to come: the API provisions go live next year. Will this put patients in the driver's seat for sharing data, and jumpstart health entrepreneurship? Nick and Sudipto make the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remote Patient Monitoring is here - and it is proving its value in some settings. But whether RPM takes off will depend on reimbursement - not just how much, but how easy for providers and care teams to bill. Nick and Sudipto discuss the barriers to scaling RPM, the winners and losers thus far - and whether RPM blows up like telemedicine did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So you've finally contracted with a talented vendor making a high-tech new health gadget, and their device has gone through security review. Now you're ready for the hard part: training staff to enroll patients, monitor feeds, answer questions and perform maintenance. Darryl, Tiffany and Natalya join Sudipto to discuss why implementation is always the hardest part of IT Digital Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The audio and video from telehealth visits isn't recorded, let alone processed and analyzed. But new companies claim they can help with documenting & coding of virtual visits. And sentiment analysis may uncover useful data about patient and physician attitudes, satisfaction, and risk. Raj, Darryl and Sudipto join Nick to discuss this technology, and whether we're likely to see it implemented in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices