When thinking about the innovative technologies that are contributing to the evolution of digital health, the theme of collaborative efforts between clinicians and technologists continues to be central and of high-value. This episode focuses on the evolution of personalized medicine and the devices that are on the forefront of shifting the way healthcare is practiced as well as the clinical-expertise that helps along the way.
This episode’s guest is Dr. Ben Green who is an SVP of Services for AliveCor. Prior to AliveCor, Dr. Green spent 4+ years at Amazon where he was Principal of Healthcare Innovation for Global Benefits and the founding Chief Medical Officer for Amazon Care. Prior to Amazon, Dr. Green was the Regional Medical Director at Landmark Health, a patient-centered, comprehensive, house-call model designed for vulnerable patients. Prior to Landmark, Dr. Green spent 8 years at Carena, Inc. of Seattle where he was the Medical Director for Clinical Innovation. While there he helped to usher in the transition from in-person house calls to telemedicine model, and built a team of medical professionals focused on this novel field of medicine. He was directly involved in building the clinical software and operational infrastructure to deliver safe, high quality, and evidence-based primary care telemedicine.
Dr. Green holds a BA from Harvard University in Biological Anthropology, an MD degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his Family Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania.
Other topics in the episode range from how clinical executives are contributing to innovations in healthcare to best practices on career mapping to the historical presence of home health.
For more details visit TechLink Health @ https://www.techlink.health or connect with Dr. Green @ LinkedIn Profile.
This episode was hosted by Justine Reiss and Dr. Rodney Samaan.
The episode has several references to the connection between tech and healthcare as well as technologies that are helping to evolve the industry. See below:
📗 Complications by Atul Gawande
🔖 A.I. Versus M.D. by Siddhartha Mukherjee
📙 The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
ℹ️ Kaiser Family Foundation Data
💚 KardiaMobile: The most clinically-validated personal ECG solution in the world
🎗 GRAIL: Detect cancer early, when it can be cured
🦋 Butterfly: The new image of health
🎀 Exact Sciences: Changing the way we think about detecting and treating cancer
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