Putting the brakes on infectious diseases with AI

Our guest: Reshma Suresh

Reshma Suresh heads Operations at Qure.ai. She has over 8 years of experience in building and scaling product innovations in healthcare. She focuses on strategic operations and is passionate about new technologies and last mile healthcare delivery. With a background in engineering as well as management, she works closely with clients and the product specialists to convert products to meaningful solutions.

She strongly believes that true impact can stem only from a patient-centric healthcare approach.

In this episode, Reshma starts with the early days of Qure.ai and the foundational aspects that are vital. Then she leads us through the challenges the pandemic presented and how Qure.ai was able to pivot their solution towards screening for Covid-19.

We then discuss ML-Ops that is critical to engineering delivery and Reshma shares examples on how important it is for the ML pipeline to support various solution needs i.e. speed, accuracy, reliability and reproducibility.

This episode is the first to have questions from our audience and Reshma answers a variety of them.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Reshma Suresh on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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Leading the way with Digital Therapeutics

Our guest: Hicham Naim
(@PharmInnove)

Hicham Naim is the Global Head of Integrated & Personalized Care Program at Takeda, Digital Advisory Board. He is a Pharmacist by training, he has a Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy and an MBA. He has over 20 years hands-on experience in the healthcare industry from strategy to implementation.

Hicham Naim goes by the motto — Better Health for People, Brighter Future for the World.

In this episode, Hicham demystifies what is Digital Therapeutics and gives us a taste of it’s various flavors. He then elaborates on a structure that details the key attributes of digital health apps and solutions that would drive their widespread adoption. He puts himself in the shoes of a healthcare practitioner and echoes how digital therapeutics should integrate with the clinical workflows.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Hicham Naim on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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Empowering builders and makers in Healthcare + AI

Our guest: Dr. Josh Case
(@_JoshCase)

Dr. Josh Case is a doctor and software developer from Brisbane, Australia. He is passionate about innovation, global health and very interestingly, teaching doctors to code. He sees huge opportunities for medics in the tech industry, and has made it his mission to empower other clinicians to embrace technology.

In this podcast episode, he explains why his decision to leave full-time medicine to work at the intersection of healthcare and technology is a low risk, high rewards play. Dr. Case makes the case for why medics should have a keen appetite for technology and make use of the myriad opportunities that are opening up. He talks about his book “Code Blue” and how it is empowering a community of doctor coders.

In true maker spirit, he then walks us through an example of a recent project that he is working on, shedding light on what it takes to do what he does.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Josh Case on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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Building a digital health product for Alzheimer’s disease detection

Our guests: Eva Poggio and Nikos Green

Eva Poggio is one of the co-founders of RoX Health. She takes care of all company building topics and projects in the field of Neurodegenerative diseases. She is a certified Design Thinking coach from the reputed Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany.

Nikos Green is a Senior Venture Architect at RoX Health. He is a Neuroscientist with a medical background who is passionately committed to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Before RoX, he worked for a digital health incubator and has done consultancy work in the healthcare sector.

In this podcast, Eva and Nikos dive into how RoX Health is helping startups developing digital health apps for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease based on digital biomarkers. They lead us through an exciting journey of what it takes to bring a digital health app into the healthcare ecosystem. There is much to learn and explore about what digital health holds in store.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Nikos Green on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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Navigating AI in Medical Research

Our guest: Dr. Chris Lovejoy
(@ChrisLovejoy_)

Dr. Chris Lovejoy is a medical doctor who has spent the last several years exploring data science. He has a master’s degree in machine learning at UCL, and he currently works as a data scientist. He’s been involved with several AI for healthcare projects, including a model to predict health deterioration, and a BMJ systematic review looking at the quality of AI studies.

On his blog and YouTube channel, he shares his thoughts and experiences of applying machine learning to healthcare. Most recently, one of his fun coding projects where he created his own alternative to the YouTube algorithm for finding interesting videos went viral.

In this episode, Dr. Lovejoy starts by delving into why he decided to code up his own YouTube videos recommendation algorithm. We then discuss the state of AI in medical research and explore what could be the gold standard of reporting results on the use of AI in medical studies. Chris explains how explainthispaper.com started and how is it going and shares his experiences in building a engaged community interested in Healthcare + AI.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Chris Lovejoy on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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The complete journey of building a digital health app

Our guest: Dr. Stefan Buttigieg
(@stefanbuttigieg)

Dr. Buttigieg is a specialist in Public Health Medicine with an avid interest in Clinical Informatics, Social Media and Digital Health. He currently lectures at the University of Malta Faculty of Health Sciences on the topics of Digital Health and Social Media in Healthcare.

As the co-lead of the data management team of the Covid19 public health response team in Malta, his team built a Covid19 contact tracing digital health app in Malta which had a high adoption percentage.

In this episode, Dr. Buttigieg shares the journey of how this app was built, the best practices that the team kept up with, the challenges – which were not just technical and the learnings that may be applicable to digital health apps in general.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Stefan Buttigieg on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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