Personal Health
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What is Cinnamon You might have heard of Cinnamon – no not Cinnamon the dog in the Big Bang Theory and the only non-human semi-regular cast member but rather the spice and more importantly something you need to be taking for its amazing health benefits. But should you be adding this to your daily collection […]
Medication Adherence This week I am talking to Tom Kottler, CEO fo HealthPrize (@HealthPrize) focused on improving the patient experience and using behavioral techniques to induce better healthier behavior. Tom has been an entrepreneur in healthcare for more than 20 years and has launched 4 successful companies. He came to Healthprize as he discovered the terrifying statistics […]
Is Turmeric a Wonder Drug Thanks to one of my viewers for the request to cover the spice Turmeric. There’s certainly plenty of interest in the compound with 100’s of registered trials consuming large amounts of investigational resources with claims of reducing inflammation, dementia and Alzheimer’s, heart disease, depression, and cancer. Wow! But should you […]
Aspirin is in the news again with the latest article published in JAMA this past week: A Practical Approach to Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention. Building on the ASPREE, ASCEND and ARRIVE trials and a recent meta-analysis: Association of Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention With Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding Events: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, […]
This week I am talking to Vikas Shah MBE (@MrVikas), a successful entrepreneur from the age of 14 and investor. I met him at the World Health Congress for Europe that took place in Manchester where his presentation “How to Save Your Own Life” which touched a raw and emotional part of our world that […]
Gaming Medical Education This week I am talking to Eric Gantwerker, MD (@DrEricGant) a pediatric ENT-otolaryngologist and also a Vice President, Medical Director at Level Ex – a gaming company focused on tapping into gaming technology for medicine and healthcare. You can get a sense of the technology from their introductory video for CardioEx which […]
No More Sneakernet This week I am talking to Kevin McGrail (@KAMcGrail), Director of Business Growth at Infrashield and one of a few patients suffering from a rare disease “Anti DPPx Paraneoplastic Neurological Disorder” (you can read more about these diseases here) – one of only a handful of patients diagnosed with this. Kevin is […]
I spoke with Tim Eggena, Chief Strategy Officer for Diasyst at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building Diasyst has a unique approach to Diabetes management. They allow patients to manually report their sugar results via a smartphone app, but for those that don’t have a […]
Moneyball for Medicine This week I am talking to Richard Milani, MD, (@rvmilani) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health System and Preventative Medicine and Clinical Epidemiologist and Cardiovascular specialist. We met at the HIMSS 2019 AMDIS Pre-Conference: Reengineering Healthcare Delivery through Innovation. His presentation resonated with me as he focused on the importance of the underlying […]
I spoke with Kent Dicks, CEO for Life365 at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building Life365 is a solution agnostic Digital Health as a Service (DHaaS) software platform that integrates devices, systems, applications, education and incentives to align with specific user needs to enable maximum patient […]
The Morass of Healthcare in the United States Reading through the litany of challenges in healthcare on a daily basis is depressing. That is unless you are in one of the fortunate groups that have healthcare coverage that actually pays those bills and doesn’t cost so much to be unaffordable. So who manages to get […]
Imagination from InspiRen This week I am talking to Mike Wang, CEO and Founder of Inspiren and Paul Coyne, Co-Founder, and President. In case you are wondering about the company name Inspiren is a combination of Inspiration and the Chinese word ren a Confucian virtue denoting the good feeling a virtuous human experiences when being altruistic […]
Supporting the Healthcare Consumer Incrementally This week I am talking to David Nichols, the Patient and Family Communications Product Leader for PerfectServe (@PerfectServe) and former Founder and COO of Carewire. They are focused on achieving the vision of a care platform of the future and using Nudges – or as I call it Incrementalism. Carewire […]
I managed to catch David Mitchell (@DavidP4AD) after his presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. David has Multiple Myeloma – an incurable drug cancer that is treatable by very expensive drugs. Drugs that cost […]
Dementia and How to Reimagine Life With It This week I am talking to Dr Tia Powell, (@tiapowell) the Director for the Center for Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center (@MontefioreNYC) and an expert in Dementia and author of the book: Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End. We talk about […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
It was a real privilege to catch Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, (@RosenthalHealth, author of “An American Sickness”) after her presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. I asked her what the average consumer should be […]
Patients Biggest Stakeholder in their Care I was lucky to catch up with Anil Sethi, entrepreneur and previous founder of multiple successful healthcare companies who came to Health Datapalooza where he moderated the panel: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights, and stories from patients/caregivers who have successfully disrupted or redesigned health care. Anil shared his personal […]
Sleep and Temperature How hot does it get at night and how uncomfortable does that make it for you and difficult to get to sleep? I was lucky to be able to spend some time with Jessica Gunther from Eight Sleep at the Sleepshow who shared some of the details of their new sleep solution called “The Pod”. […]
CPAP on the Go I spoke to Susie Justus, Inside Clinical Specialist from ResMed at the Sleepshow We talked about the new compact travel AirMini Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device that uses an inline filter to deal with moisture and another company offering a nasal mask with pillows and a clever detachable hose connector for patients […]
Science Based Sleep Devices I spoke to Roy Raymann, Vice President, Sleep Science and Scientific Affairs from Sleepscore Labs at the Sleepshow We reviewed some of the products that the Sleepscore products that they have reviewed and curated that have been tested by their team. We talked about the SleepScore app that is available for free […]
Personalized Temperature Control Maybe you struggle with thermostat wars at home and the inability to agree on the temperature to suit everyone. I have been living this challenge all the way back to childhood when my father was the first to the heating system controls to turn down the temperature for the whole house as […]
CPAP and Nasal Pillows I spoke to Subbarao Potharaju – the Director of Marketing at Fisher & Paykel at the Sleepshow We took a look at their new Brevida Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Mask – a nasal pillow mask that is designed to provide a soft seal around the nose for overnight comfort. We looked at the […]
Temperature and Sleep Do you struggle to get to sleep or find yourself waking up too hot or too cold? Some people need to warm up and then cool down to fall asleep. This is the principle underlying the long-held method of a warm bath before bedtime to help you sleep which is counterintuitive in […]
Consumer and Clinical Solutions for Sleep Philips are well known to the in health and have a whole decision focused on sleep solutions both directed at the consumer as well as clinical solutions targeted towards patients suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) being treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) systems I took a look […]
