Empowered Patient Podcast

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

Santosh Kumar PhD, Center Director NIH Center for Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-To-Knowledge University of Memphis talks about addressing health needs through awareness of body functions and the natural environment and developing predictive models to provide proactive and reactive information for patients and caregivers. @MD2Korg MD2K.org

Anna McCollister-Slipp, co-founder Galileo Analytics and Chief Advocate, Participatory Research, Scripps Translational Science Institute talks about using tools from the financial industry to analyze complex health data and leading research and development efforts into new scientific frontiers while enabling patients to actively pariticpate in their own treatments.   @AnnaMcSlipp Galileo Analytics

Brenda Wiederhold PhD, Executive Director, Virtual Realtiy Medical Center reveals how she is using bio-feedback and virtual reality technology to help patients overcome a fear of flying and other phobias and panic disorders, which patients are helped most by this treatment and creating new pathways in the brain. @VirtualBrenda VRPhobia

Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri highlights the value of visualization and maps to analyze health related data and why place matters when trying to understand individual as well as population health challenges. @estegeraghty Esri

Gary Conkright, CEO and Co-Founder, PhysIQ talks about seeing the body as a complex system, using machine learning technology to improve identification of early warning signs, creating personalized baseline body-function norms and the value of sensors that are providing ICU quality data. @physIQ_health PhysIQ

Donna Spruijt-Metz PhD, Director USC mHealth Collaboratory discusses the use of sensors and self-reported data to provide just in time adaptive intervention to address obesity particularly in children. @MetzLab Metz Lab

Walter De Brouwer, PhD, CEO, Scanadu talks about democratizing medicine by introducing consumer products that can test vital signs and vital fluids, the need to study health as it changes, and the value of real-time data in creating personalized baselines and influencing behavior. @Scanadu Scanadu

Adam Pellegrini, Vice President of Digital Health, Walgreens.com Motivating and rewarding healthy behavior by integrating personal data allows Walgreens to provide more convenient 24/7 service, popularity of scan to refill and other mobile app functions, and the changing role of the pharmacists.

Dr. Steven Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute  stsiweb.org  @SteveSteinhubl Preview of the upcoming Transforming Medicine: Evidence-Driven mHealth conference where the goal will be to jumpstart efforts to drive development of evidence-based mobile health solutions.