IEEE RE-Think Health Podcast

Getting Real about Healthcare Data and the Patient’s Journey

The time has come to unleash the value of unstructured data. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) afford those opportunities across the healthcare domain, however, AI and ML must be demystified and we need to embrace the value of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in daily operating systems. 
Alexandra Ehrlich, Principal Health Innovation Scientist at Oracle, and our host, Maria Palombini, discuss how AI and ML hold great opportunities for healthcare, but we can't lose sight of the challenge with bias permeating throughout accessible healthcare data.

Reducing the Healthcare Gap with Explainable AI

Fairness is not a math problem. Healthcare disparities are a global challenge requiring more than just physical care. Identifying and leveraging social determinants, when mined correctly, are untapped keys to closing the healthcare gap.  Join Dave DeCaprio, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at ClosedLoop.ai, and our host, Maria Palombini, as they discuss how off-the-shelf AI presents a new perspective on transparency, reduction of bias, and a path toward health stakeholders' trust with explainability in its applications. 

AI: The New Pipeline for Targeted Drug Discovery

RNA splicing is at the forefront of providing insights into diseases that are linked back to RNA errors. Dr. Maria Luisa Pineda, CEO & Co-Founder at Envisagenics, explains how AI, HPC (high-performance computing), and genetic data can provide the insights needed for targeted drug discovery in oncology and other genetic conditions faster and more accurately than ever. 

Riding the Third Wave of AI for Precision Oncology

Hear about the recently released case study on the application of the “third wave of AI” that offers real-world data and practice on realizing the potential for precision oncology.

The Balance: AI’s Healthcare Goodness for Marginalized Patients

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness to chip away at the epidemic of healthcare inequity, or will it further create more inequity in the healthcare system?

Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy in Connected Mental Health – A Perspective from Europe

We are seeing rapidly growing trends towards the application of digital therapeutics for mental health conditions; a great deal exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Are we approaching a time when doctors prescribe mobile apps, games for adolescents, or Virtual Reality to treat social anxiety and/or treat mental ill-health rather than medication or talk sessions? If YES, then managing cybersecurity and privacy risks must be top of the agenda.Listen to this episode to understand the opportunities and growing challenges in managing duty of care, security, and privacy with a highly vulnerable population of patients with an easily accessible suite of mental health digital therapeutics.

Response and Prevention Strategy in Connected Health - A Perspective from Latin America

What can an emerging Latin American region teach us when it comes to cyber risk management in the digital healthcare transformation?
We sit down with Roque Juarez, Security Intelligence Specialist at IBM in Mexico, to get an understanding of how basic principles can be critical to cyber threat management in connected healthcare systems regardless of whether you are an emerging or established economy. If you think COVID-19 pandemic slowed down the rate of threat, think again.Tune in as Roque shares how COVID-19 made it more appealing for hackers to breach labs, healthcare systems, and any repository of patient health data and research.

Uncovering the Great Risk in Security and Privacy of Health Data in Latin America and Beyond

What is one of the greatest risks in the connected healthcare ecosystem? Here’s a hint: it’s not the hackers.Listen to our eye-opening conversation with a cutting-edge cybersecurity forensic technologist, Andrés Velázquez, Founder and President of MaTTica, based in Mexico, who highlights common global challenges and inherent obstacles in the emerging Latin American region.As an industry where are we falling short? Where are we not investing resources
correctly? Find out how organizational shortcomings are feeding this growing threat to institutional and patient security and privacy and the overall future of connected healthcare.

Securing Greater Public Trust in Health through Risk Mitigation – A North America Perspective

How you manage and quantify risk will determine how fast you can minimize impact and reassure public trust in the connected healthcare system. Can connected healthcare be a risky business for you, the patient, and every stakeholder involved?
Listen to our discussion with T.R. Kane, Cybersecurity, Privacy & Forensics Partner, at one of the world’s top 5 consultancies, PwC [PricewaterhouseCoopers], as he explains how we need to better strategize planning and response to cyber vulnerabilities in the healthcare ecosystem. Tune in for insights on some of the best lifeline strategies for managing organizational and patient risk in this rapidly emerging domain.

Cracking the Cybersecurity Code to Accelerate Innovation - A View from Australia

Can cracking code on cybersecurity in the connected healthcare ecosystem accelerate innovation in the world of mobilized care?We are taking a different perspective from the land down under withAshish Mahajan, Non-Executive Director of IoTSec Australia Inc, and Chair of the IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program. In this podcast, Ashish provides insights into the vulnerabilities of the entire data value chain in the IoT ecosystem that impede maximum utilization and innovation in public health, wellness, and healthcare. Hear how stakeholders in Australia are looking to live the mantra when the world gives you lemons, it’s best to make lemonade.