F106 VRx: What has over 5000 studies taught us about the healing effect of VR? (Dr. Brennan Spiegel)

Virtual reality can have a literally healing effect. Over 5000 studies by today have shown the efficacy of VR for pain management, PTSD, eating disorders, mental health, even helping manage pain during childbirth. The FDA provided a special designation for virtual reality as a breakthrough device for managing pain.

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F105 The state of healthcare digitalization in Australia (Louise Schaper, AIDH)

Australia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health.

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F 104 Digital health in Spain and what is a liquid hospital? (Cesar Morcillo Serra)

Sanitas is the leading Spanish health insurance and service provider and have been devoted exclusively to health care for more than 60 years. The Sanitas’ Cima hospital in Barcelona is an exemplar in digital innovation adoption.

Even before COVID, an innovation platform was established which seeks to promote entrepreneurship among employees. Another platform is in place, that aims to attract startup talent in areas such as prevention and genomics, liquid hospital, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data & analytics, and robotics.

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F103 How are smart garments making remote patient monitoring comfortable? (Laurent Vandebrouck, Chronolife)

Chronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromorphic (bio-mimetic) algorithm, HOTS (Hierarchy Of event-based Time-Surfaces). The algorithm detects and predicts deterioration in patients’ state of health and alerts caregivers to allow earlier intervention and avoid costly hospitalizations.

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F096 Why can we be optimistic about the vaccine development for COVID-19? (Glen de Vries, Medidata)

Data gathering is not a problem in COVID-19 race towards a reliable vaccine. The challenge is how to evaluate it, says Glen de Vries, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Medidata. End of July Medidata started working with Moderna to support clinical trials of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

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F093 How does a doctor become a VC? (Benedict Evans)

Despite enjoying clinical practice, Benedict Evans still came to a point where he felt he is not passionate enough about what he does, and as a surgeon, he realized he enjoys talking to patients more than treating them when they are under anesthesia. He went to a consulting position at McKinsey, then back to an NHS Trust to drive digital innovation and now to a VC position.

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F092 How can blockchain bring back autonomy to the physician-patient relationship? (Leah Houston, HPEC)

Leah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012. When a hospital she used to work for stole her identity for fraud billing, she decided to design a blockchain-based solution that would prevent such abuses from happening to any doctor in the future.

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F086 TikTok 2/2: Interested in weird medical facts? (Karan Raj)

Karan Raj is a “veteran” in online education. He founded TheOSCEstation — an online medical education website with videos explaining different medical topics. Given his research interest in the development of medical education and his interest in the role of social media platforms in this mix, going to TikTok was a natural move for him. Following him, you can learn about embarrassing things he did as a doctor, weird things patients have said, and even more unusual topics such as — Can cheese give you nightmares?

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F085 Tik tok 1/2: #MedicineExplained - doctors sharing medical knowledge in a whole new format (Amanda d’Almeida and Dan Villavecer)

TikTok is an increasingly popular platform without an age limit of the audience and creators. 15 to 60-second videos offer audience information, challenge them to dance, or just take user’s minds off every day worries. All sorts of professionals are using TikTok to build their brand or just have a little bit of fun. Medical workers are no exception.

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F084 Doctors in digital health 4/4: Mediquo: Whatsapp for healthcare (Guillem Serra)

Guillem Serra comes from a family of doctors and studied medicine himself, but saw that everyday routine doctors operate under is too repetitive for his taste. He decided against becoming a traditional doctor and created a platform connecting patients to doctors in a healthcare regulation-compliant way. MediQuo is a leading eHealth app in Spain and Latin America

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F081-084 Doctors in digital health series (Daniel Kraft, Michael Docktor, Owain Hughes, Guillem Serra)

Many doctors leave full-time medical practice to become entrepreneurs. Many of them do that to solve systemic issues plaguing healthcare. This series includes four doctors from the US, UK and Spain, Daniel Kraft, Michael Docktor, Owain Rhys Hughes and Guillem Serra explain their experiences with healthcare IT during their clinical practice, and their motivation to develop technological solutions for healthcare.

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F078 DTx series 5/5: Chronic disease management in India (Abhishek Shah)

Wellthy is one of Asia's leading digital therapeutics companies that inspires and enables patients to prevent, reverse and control chronic diseases. It works with pharmaceutical, medical devices companies, payors and healthcare providers to improve health outcomes. With active therapeutic areas in diabetes and cardiology, it has published real-world evidence across 20 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals and global conferences.

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