IEEE RE-Think Health Podcast

Understanding the Intricacies of Generative AI and Robotics for Healthcare

More often we are hearing the deployment of mobile robots in response to the growing need for more support in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, assistive care and other caregiving environments. Coincidentally, there is a surge in integrating generative AI to robotic applications, sensors, wearables and other tools to support patient care and monitoring. This discussion gets to the intricacies of deploying these tools with an understanding of what challenges and opportunities engineers are seeing when it comes to design and fully realizing the potential of these “extra set of robotic hands.”
 
Speaker: Shravan S Rai Robotics and Innovation Engineer Teladoc Health, Inc. 

Emerging Tech Spotlight: Microlevel Fluid Management for Critical Patients at Home

There are thousands of people each year that go into septic shock requiring fluid resuscitation or other circulatory challenges that require fluid management at the micro level. Managing fluid levels effectively for acute or critially ill patients may be the determinant on how quick they may recover or have greater mortal risk. Traditional macro management approaches rely on proxy measurements until now with one of the latest innovations focused on microfluid management both in and out of the health facility. This special episode features the winner of the 2023 IEEE Telehealth Tech Pitch Competition with the development of Oxycam, a real-time home monitoring device with the ability to visualize and anlyze what is going on in the blood vessels. One of the most innovative solutions to enter global marketplace.
 
Speaker: Dr. Husain Khaki, CEO, Active Medical BV

Tackling Health Inequity in Rural Areas with Value-Based Care

Did you know that 25% of the rural population are individuals who are 65 and older? How do we Introduce the concept of value-based care to an aging rural population who have yet to utilize or access telehealth services? How do we engage the most diverse and digitally challenged patients found in rural communities? Tune into this discussion and learn how customizing the telehealth experience for a rural aging population can be achieved and support those patients that are aging healthy and those in need of assisted living.
 
Speaker:
Amar Kendale, Co-Founder and President, Homeward

Being Resilient in Bringing Telehealth to Rural Communities

Patients in rural communities are prime candidates for telehealth services as they are in communities with limited access to healthcare facilities and providers. With the rise in the use of digital therapeutics – mobile health apps, and remote patient monitoring and therapeutic devices- how do we penetrate these already challenged cellular networks to deliver this new channel of care. Tune in to hear about a new “standard” being established in remote communications for the future of global telehealth and remote assistance with satellite.
 
Speaker:  Dr. Patrick J. Fullerton, DO, MHCM, CEO, Optac-X

More than a Techno Solution in Bringing Remote Assistance to the Aging

How old are we becoming? The global aging populations is outpacing the new generation rather quickly. In this discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Baker, we discuss the many emerging techno solutions to address the needs of a healthy and assisted living aging population that is highly diverse from demographics to geographics. Find out what design principles can be deployed technologists that can meet the demand for accessibility and feasibility what will support trust in the use of these technologies while preserving dignity for the aging at home.
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth White Baker, Associate Professor, Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University; Secretary, IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm IC program
 
She completed a fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Systems Design and Management. Her research includes adoption and diffusion of technology, as well as telehealth, cybersecurity, ethics, and safety engineering in healthcare organizations. Her work has been quoted in the New York Times and published in journals such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
 
 

Moving the Needle on Trust and Equity with the Rise in Telehealth

How much has the practice of telehealth changed in the last 30 years or not really? With the rapid innovation of new technologies for healthcare delivery, Dr. Kvedar shares his insight on the last 30 years of telehealth, the rise in healthcare consumerism, the growing gap in healthcare equity and how omni channel telehealth solutions may have an impact to support marginalized populations.
 
Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Kvedar, MD
Immediate Past Chair of the Board, American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Professor, Harvard Medical School, Editor, npj Digital Medicine
 
Dr. Joe Kvedar has been driving innovation, creating the market, and gaining acceptance for connected health for nearly three decades. He is now applying his expertise, insights, and influence to advancing adoption of telehealth and virtual care technologies at the national level. Dr. Kvedar continues to guide the transformation of healthcare delivery as a respected thought leader, author, and convener.
 
Dr. Kvedar is the immediate past Chair of the Board of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). As Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine, a Nature Research journal, he is working to establish the evidence base needed to guide innovation and the implementation of virtual care.
He is co-chair the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG), which works to ensure widespread coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and successfully established several new provider codes for telehealth reimbursement through the CPT process. Dr. Kvedar is also a member of the AAMC’s (Association of American Medical Colleges) telehealth committee, creating tools that will enable medical schools and residency programs to integrate telehealth into the training of future practitioners.
 
Dr. Kvedar is the author of two books: The Internet of Healthy Things and The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan
 
The cHealth Blog provides his insights and vision for connected health.
Dr. Kvedar is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.
Connect on Twitter @jkvedar 
Connect on LinkedIn
Learn about The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan
Learn about The Internet of Healthy Things
Read The cHealth Blog
 
 

More than Skin Deep: Remote Probing to Detect Cues Before they Surface

Skin health, wound care and management are critical concerns for caregivers, long term facility staff, and patient. Most often damage to skin has not been detected until issues progressed. The latest in RPM innovations offers a non-invasive, on-demand monitoring capability to improve patient outcomes with treatment, care and prevenion.

Reimagined Healthcare: A Personalized, Concierge Virtual Care Experience

Telehealth is disrupting the traditional healthcare experience of hospital fee-structured models to help better address health inequity. As one of the leading telehealth platform providers, Teladoc’s Medical Officer, Dr. Sayan Vyas, shares how achieving a deep understanding of patients’ behaviors and needs cannot be fully addressed in the traditional healthcare setting. Learn how the customized patient experience that can be enabled through telehealth technologies is feeding the future of “the hospital at home” and healthcare consumerism.

Securing the Telehealth Experience is Critical for Patient-Centered Care

Security and protection of personal data are core tenants in driving trust in the use of remote devices and technologies for monitoring or delivering virtual care. As healthcare intersects more with consumer wellness trends, the vulnerabilities and threats to security and privacy are even more amplified. Nakia Grayson and Ronald Pulivarti from the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST, share the latest trends and efforts on how the industry is educating and offering practical guides to safeguarding the telehealth experience.

Health Has No Borders with Telehealth – A Doctor’s Perspective

The need to extend telehealth services to marginalized and indigenous populations with a focus on accessibility and feasibility is urgent. As a primary care doctor converted into a healthtech advocate, Dr. Keith Thompson, shares that the work of equally reaching all populations for quality access to care will take more than setting up and/or relying on physical location.