Empowered Patient Podcast

Dora Barilla, President and Co-Founder, HC2 Strategies on how location impacts the health of a community, how mapping technology can integrate vast amounts of relevant environmental, social and patient data, the right to health not just healthcare, and seeing patient care in a more holistic way. @esri_health HC2 Strategies

Curt Becker, Co-Founder and CEO, Molecular Assemblies is a pioneer in the world of synthesizing DNA and has now started this new company to develop higher quality synthetic DNA in a process that does not require toxic chemicals and opens to doors to more advance use of synthetic DNA in precision medicine research. @CurtBecker @molassemblies Molecular Assemblies

Laurence Girard, CEO and Co-Founder, Fruit Street explains how their telemedicine solution provides medical and health professionals with tools that are often reimbursed by insurance companies, can be used to help modify patient behavior, and are embraced by patients particularly the virtual food diary. @lgirardsf FruitStreet.com

Jefferson McMillan, Manager, Business Intelligence and Clinical Analytics, Children's National Health System talks about how GIS tools are revealing hidden patterns related to pediatric burns, childhood obesity and chronic diseases, using digital tools to get outside the 4 walls of the hospital to provide better care, and how innovation is built into their mission since the founding of the institution in 1870. @Childrenshealth @HealthMapJeff @Esri_Health ChildrensNational.org Esri.com

Kian Saneii, CEO and Chairman, Independa on using the television as a platform to provide medical and social features that can vastly improve quality of life of population aging in place.  Will virtual reality be a hit with seniors with limited mobility? @Independa Independa.com

Daniel Kraft MD Founding Executive Director & Chair of Exponential Medicine and Faculty Chair for Medicine at Singularity University talks about how integration of health data is leading to precision drugs and personalized therapies with the real power to treat and prevent still on the horizon.   @daniel_kraft @exponentialmed Exponential Medicine Singularity University

Dr. Glenn Wollman, medical guide and host of the Magical Medical Tour reflects on the big picture of how robots and humans are working together now and might in the future, use of artificial intelligence in supporting senior health, and the importance of the human touch. Facebook.com/TheMedicalGuide MagicalMedicalTour.com

Alex Philp PhD, Founder and Chief Science Officer, Upstream Health Systems on the insights from visualization of geo-spatial health data, testing hypotheses about population health to move from treatment to prevention, international initiatives to improve population health, and why where you live matters. @BigDataAlex Upstream Health Systems

Tim Abou-Sayed MD, VP Physician Engagment, Interpreta on working with ACOs and insurance companies to implement precision medicine into individual and population healthcare with an example of a start-up working with doctors to integrate all forms of patient data. Interpreta Fruit Street

Robin Zander delves into what keeps people from learning new skills, breaking down silos of thinking to come up with new solutions, and the value of dancing for those of all ages. @RobinPZander RobinPZander.com Singularity University  

Anna McCollister-Slipp talks about the growing makers movement of coders, medical device experts, patients, and parents who are addressing the needs of diabetics to receive real time actionable data with affordable solutions. @AnnaMcSlipp @NightscoutFound HackingDiabetes.org

Abhinav Gautam, MD Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, Carevoyance on using economic data with geo-spatial visualization tools to improve hospital administration and identify untapped potential in the local market. @carevoyance Carevoyance

Rob McCray, President and CEO, Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance on including patients earlier in the medical product development cycle, risks and efficacy of continuous evaluation compared to traditional clinical trial models, and democratizing access to patient and doctor data. @WLSA_ORG Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance

Dr. Steve Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute looks back on his recent conference on transforming medicine, reflects on how much more evidence is needed about the effectiveness of mobile health strategies and how eager researchers, doctors, and patients are for innovative uses of new technology to improve care. @SteveSteinhubl @ScrippsSTSI Scripps Translational Science Institute

Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Ph.D. Professor, Geography Department San Diego State University and Founding Director, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age talks about using geo-location data from Tweets to identify early outbreaks of the flu, beginning to use mapping and spatial analysis in cancer research, and combining electronic medical records with GIS tools to improve population health.   @MingTsou SocialMedia.SDSU.edu Esri

Rosalind Picard, Chairman and Co-Founder Empatica on putting the lab on the person not the person in the lab, advances in electrodermal activity (EDA) sensors that are bringing wristband monitors to consumers as well as researchers, and the value of real time information about brain and body functions to potentially predicate and address triggers and life-threatening situations. @RosalindPicard @Empatica Empatica

Myron Kowal, Founder and President, RCare talks about the value of passive tracking to support mobility of seniors, using behavioral data to prevent and address emergencies, and advances in wireless location identification to facilitate faster response.  @responsecare RCareInc.com  

Harry Edelson, Edelson Technology Partners and author of the new book Positivity: How to be Happier, Healthier, Smarter and More Prosperous on the need to stay engaged and stretch the mind to stay healthy, how everyone can be smarter about their own health, and how the placebo effect can be used to overcome life challenges. Edelson Technology Partners Positivity: How to be Happier, Healthier, Smarter and More Prosperous by Harry Edelson

Jonathan Honiball, Senior Director, Customer Research, PCG talks about the challenges of medical device development, using genomic data for personalized treatments, impact of the miniaturization of sensors, and privacy and hacking concerns due to the changing functions of medical devices. @PCGFirm PCG

Wendy Nilsen, PhD. Program Director of the Smart and Connected Health, National Science Foundation explains the role of the NSF in funding basic research on the convergence of technology and healthcare, challenge and promise of developing personalized health programs, and addressing the need to prevent and not just treat diseases. @NSF NSF.gov