Top Episodes Between August 2022 and August 2023
This is what the numbers say about episodes published between August 2022 and 2023.
Below you can find the list of 10 episodes with the highest number of downloads and 10 episodes with the higher number of listeners. Note that podcast statistics are a bit ungrateful, since listener numbers go up over time, giving older episodes an advantage in numbers. Nonetheless, this year, all eyes are on healthcare data and generative AI.
Below are the direct links to summaries, recordings, or related newsletters.
Most downloaded episodes
1️⃣ NLP in Healthcare 3/3: ChatGPT, MedPaLM and the Impact of NLP in Healthcare (Alexandre Lebrun & Israel Krush)
In January, we invited Alexandre Lebrun - CEO of Nabla and Israel Krush, CEO of Hyro - two companies specializing in AI in healthcare, to join a debate to clarify the state of natural language processing in healthcare.
Read the summary of the discussion in the newsletter.
2️⃣ Healthcare data series 2/5: Epic Cosmos - Next Step in EHR Data Mining (Dave Little & Phil Lindemann)
Epic is a renowned EHR provider, that covers around a third of the US healthcare market. In 2019, Epic launched Cosmos, a special program for data mining of patient records data gathered in Epic systems. By January 2023, Epic Cosmos, which was built to enable easier clinical research for contributing Epic customers, contained over 178 million patient records from over 6.5 billion encounters, representing patients in all 50 states.
Read the episode descriptions of the healthcare data series.
3️⃣ Healthcare Data Series 1/5: How is Komodo Health Gathering and Analysing Health Data of the Whole US Population? (Arif Nathoo)
Komodo Health is currently tracking individual encounters with the healthcare system for over 330 million patients. Companies such as Pfizer, AppliedVR, Turquoise Health, Janssen, and others, use Komnodo's de-identified patient-level data and insights to inform drug development, discovery, clinical trials, clinical research, and innovation.
4️⃣ EIT Health Germany/Switzerland Series 7: How Can A Digital Health Solution Become a "DiGA App" in Germany? (Jörg Trinkwalter)
For a few years now, Germany has in place a clear workflow for making digital health apps reimbursable. When an app becomes a DiGA app, it has to be reimbursed. In the past, innovators had to negotiate reimbursement with each health insurance company separately, and there are over 100 health insurance companies in Germany.
5️⃣ NLP in healthcare 1/3: The State of Symptom Checkers (Jeff Cutler, Ada Health)
The 2022 systematic review of symptom checkers published in Nature concludes that symptom checkers’ diagnostic and triage accuracy varied substantially and was generally low. Variation exists between different symptom checkers and the conditions being assessed but raises safety and regulatory concerns.
“First and foremost, we don't believe that any technology is going to ultimately replace doctors. When you read a lot of these studies, what they don't go into is what happens when you make this data available to the clinicians themselves. What we found is that by putting the results of our assessment in clinicians’ hands, it helps them both become more accurate in their ultimate diagnosis, but also in considering certain conditions that they may not be as familiar with,” says Jeff Cutler, CCO of Ada Health - the world's most popular symptom assessment app, with 10 million users and 25 million completed assessments.
6️⃣ What Makes Hospital Medication Management Complex? (Talking HealthTech Winter Summit with Gidi Stein, Božidarka Radović & Melissa Fodera)
At the last Winter Talking HealthTech Summit - an Australian one-day online conference, Melissa Fodera, Chief Pharmacy Informatics Officer (CPIO) Western Health Australia, Božidarka Radović, Better Meds Product Lead at the health IT company Better and Gidi Stein, CEO of MedAware highlighted the challenges that still need to be overcome to improve medication safety in the hospital setting.
7️⃣ Best of 2021: Taiwan and its Healthcare Digitalization (Yu-Chuan Jack Li)
Taiwan spends only 6.4% of it’s GDP for healthcare, but has high satisfaction rates with healthcare, and is also very digitalized. In this episode, a closer look into healthcare in Taiwan is provided by Prof. Yu-Chuan Jack Li - a pioneer of artificial intelligence in medicine and translational biomedical informatics.
8️⃣ South Africa & Africa More Broady: What’s The State of Medical Device Regulation? (Hervé Mwamba)
In Africa, the regulation for medical devices still needs to be put in place. Most medical devices are imported because there often aren’t any local capacities for larger manufacturing of devices.
9️⃣ Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana: How is Medtronic LABS Redefining Chronic Disease Management (Anne Stake)
A systemic approach to care for non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes is Africa is in its early stages, with the biggest challenge for patients being the price of medications, says Anne Stake, Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Medtronic Labs.
Medtronic Labs is a nonprofit organization that works with governments and local communities in across Africa to create local ecosystems for the management of hypertension and diabetes.
🔟 Cancer Series Ep. 3: AI, Precision Oncology and Understanding Cancer (Tuvik Beker, Pangea Biomed)
Roughly 10% of all cancer patients have actionable mutations for which the Pharmaceutical industry has already found targeted precision therapies. However, even if a patient has an identified actionable mutation, only 30-40% of these patients will respond to targeted therapies.
Advancements in sequencing technology are decreasing the prices of genetic and genomic testing, making more samples available for analysis and new scientific findings.
Read the summary in the cancer series newsletter
Most listeners
Descriptions and players are added to episodes not on the list of most downloaded episodes.
1️⃣ NLP in Healthcare 3/3: ChatGPT, MedPaLM and the Impact of NLP in Healthcare
2️⃣ NLP in healthcare 1/3: The State of Symptom Checkers (Jeff Cutler, Ada Health)
3️⃣ Healthcare data series 2/5: Epic Cosmos - Next Step in EHR Data Mining
4️⃣ Healthcare Data Series 1/5: How is Komodo Health Gathering and Analysing Health Data of the Whole US Population?
5️⃣ How is Healthcare Re-Shaping (Towards Virtual and Retail Care) Globally, According to NextMed Health Participants?
If you ever want to immerse yourself in the latest innovation trends in the digital health space, the NextMed Health conference is probably the best choice to do so. In a 4 day, mostly US-centered program with only one stream, hence no FOMO on other sessions, we heard a fresh vocabulary describing futuristic ideas for healthcare improvement.
Read the summary from the newsletter .
6️⃣ Healthcare in 2033: “You can only disrupt healthcare in a non-disruptive way” (Mark Coticchia, Baptist Health)
Changes in healthcare happen through incremental improvements and gradual evolution rather than through revolution and disruption. Hospital systems are going to adapt and evolve rather than undergo huge transformations and radical changes, says Mark Coticchia, Innovation, Technology Commercialization, and Venture Development Leader at Baptist Health Innovations.
At the last mHealth Israel conference in Tel Aviv, he shared his prediction about healthcare systems and healthcare delivery in the US in 2033.
7️⃣ NLP in Healthcare 2/3: The Power of Voice and NLP for Medical Practice Optimization (Punit Singh Soni, Suki)
Voice technology and voice recognition could be roughly divided into three areas, says Punit Singh Soni:
the past generation of voice technologies, which primarily offer speech recognition, such as the market leader Nuance, which primarily focuses on transcriptions,
the new ambient technology, which involves human transcribers; and doesn’t scale well,
digital assistant technology, which uses AI to understand the intent of the speaker.
8️⃣ What Makes Hospital Medication Management Complex? (Talking Healthtech Summit)
9️⃣ The Power Of At-Home Diagnostics and Prevention of STDs (Emma Jean Rayner, Ash Wellness)
More than 1 million sexually transmitted infections (including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV hepatitis, and other infections), are acquired daily worldwide. Most STIs are asymptomatic, making early detection that much more critical to prevent the spread of these diseases. This is where at-home diagnostics will potentially make a difference.
🔟 Cancer Series Ep. 3: AI, Precision Oncology and Understanding Cancer (Pangea Biomed)