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Trends in Med TechIRegained is Transforming Post-Stroke Care with its Innovative MyHand Rehabilitative DeviceIRegained is startup and social impact venture with a vision of helping patients regain their hand function after a stroke.
Their innovative device called MyHand leverages the principles of neuroplasticity by guiding patients through a series of highly personalized hand exercises that gradually rewire the brain around the affected area.
The device is meant to be used from the comfort of a patient’s home, which enables a more frequent and intense therapy regimen than traditional in-clinic appointments. Personalized, home-based care using an inexpensive device are key features that will broaden access and impact once th...2021-07-0755 min
Trends in Med TechTamvoes: Empowering individuals with their information and professionals with client management*** if you enjoy these talks, learn something from them, want to see more, be sure to subscribe 🎬🔔✨❗️🎬 🔔✨❗️ ***
In this episode we’re joined by Rukia Mire, Madison (Maddy) McBay and Jessica Lunshoff of Tamvoes, a digital health platform empowering individuals with their information and professionals with client management.
At its score, Tamvoes solves the longstanding problem of how to collect, story and easily transfer important and sensitive personal information with people and services you trust. Scaling this solution could reduce huge inefficiencies and prevent hurdles and barriers in the patient journey.
It...2021-05-2553 min
Trends in Med TechTali AI: The information retrieval virtual assistant for providers | Co-Founder,CEO Mahshid YassaeiIn this episode we spoke with Mahshid Yassaei about Tali, an innovative NLP-based information retrieval algorithm that is built for purpose to help clinicians at the point of care.
Prior to Tali, Mahshid also co-founded Evenset, a custom medical and healthcare software development company focused on helping entrepreneurs and established companies bring innovative ideas to life through a fast-paced, agile software development process.
Evenset’s clients include startups such as textile computing company Myant, multibillion dollar corporations such as Essity, and government agencies such as Public Health Agency of Canada and th...2021-05-121h 01
Trends in Med TechYourCoach.Health : Universal Platform for Health & Wellness Coaches | COO Eugene BorukhovichWouldn’t it be great to have a team of coaches to help you through your day-to-day life?
Realizing that people have complex and ever-changing health needs – something that healthcare systems are not well equipped to handle - YourCoach has set out to enable people to improve their health and wellness through a holistic approach and a “squad” of certified coaches. Health and wellness coaches are becoming an important part of integrated health and wellness teams and are increasingly being recognized by industry bodies.
Coaches are also getting the attention of trade...2021-04-2443 min
Trends in Med TechOpen Orphan: Global Leader in Human Challenge Vaccine Development | Executive Chairman Cathal FrielOpen Orphan is paving the way for the large-scale adoption of “human challenge studies” for vaccine development.
Although this unique study design has been around for over 40 years and has been used to test a variety of vaccines and anti-virals for disease such as, cholera, influenza, asthma and RSV, among many others, the challenge model has recently gained a lot of attention globally due to Open Orphan’s pioneering its use for covid-19.
What’s more, these studies hold potential to supplement, or perhaps one day substitute, traditional phase 2 clinical trials and to be used as part...2021-04-1553 min
Trends in Med TechMyelinH & MyelinS: the Brain-Computer Interface Companies Disrupting the Health & Space Tech SectorsZied Tayeb, CEO and Samaher Garbaya, COO co-founded two award-winning startups that are poised to bring impactful innovation in both health-tech (Myelin-H) and space tech (Myelin-S).
Their mission statements are:
🏥 🧠 Myelin-H: to allow clinicians to remotely diagnose and monitor the health statuses of their patients anywhere, anytime, regardless of their physical locations.
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📡 🚀 Myelin-S: to bring neuromorphic computing for in-space autonomy & making new strides in human-robot cooperation in outer space.
Both companies are founded on a software platform created by the co-founders called Body-Mirror that allows controllers (people) to interact...2021-04-111h 07
Trends in Med TechCaravan Health, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with a Proven Model | with CEO Tim GronnigerOn this podcast we are always looking for innovative technologies and services that address unmet need in healthcare, expand access to essential and effective healthcare and improve outcomes for both patients and providers. So, we were excited at the opportunity to speak with Tim from Caravan Health!
While ACO’s may not have the appeal of flashy new gadgets from the big-four tech companies, underneath their modest surface is a program with huge potential to impact lives. Accountable Care Organizations are the result of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program aimed at incentivizing the ra...2021-04-1146 min
Trends in Med TechThe Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA): From Principles to Practice | with ED Megan CoderDigital therapeautics (DTx) are clinical intervention delivered as software that can help with medical ailments as wide ranging as asthma, epilepsy, IBS, depression, diabetes, arthritis, among many other conditions.
Why do we bring this up now? A handful of DTx companies have been around for about a decade or so, but the pandemic has accelerated the development and release of these therapies, increased awareness among legislators and sparked talks among regulatory and reimbursement agencies to establish global standards for assessing safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness. If national programs are established to cover the cost of DTx...2021-03-1852 min
Trends in Med TechThe New Path to Cardiovascular Fitness & Overall Health – PAI Health | Sally Powell & Dr. Carl LaviePAI Health’s mission is to become the new global standard for physical activity. And they are well on their way …
Everyone knows that physical activity is correlated with overall health, but have you ever wondered exactly how much activity is enough to keep your heart and body optimally healthy?
Enter PAI Health. The Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) index is based on an algorithm that transforms heart rate data into a standardized, scientifically validated measure of cardiovascular fitness. The app is available for free to general consumers via an app store, and it’s also device...2021-03-0654 min
Trends in Med TechExpanding Digital Mental Health Services to Canadians & the World – MindBeacon | with CEO Sam DubocDespite the hardship brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, one of the silver linings (if we can say so) is the major shift toward digital access to healthcare around the world.
If access to affordable, timely and effective mental health services was a major challenge before the pandemic, what we’ve seen over the past year is a skyrocketing demand for these services coupled with an explosion of options for personalized therapies from companies like MindBeacon. Although there is still more work to be done in breaking down barriers to mental health services, MindBeacon is in a pe...2021-03-0644 min
Trends in Med TechAyogo: Applying Gaming Principles to Improve Health | CEO Michael FergussonAyogo has been named one of the top 100 most innovative mHealth companies in the world - twice. And it’s easy to see why …
Ayogo works with some of the biggest therapeutics companies in the world to build applications that use well-established principles of perceived self-efficacy and behaviour change to promote treatment adherence and improve health outcomes.
They employ techniques used in game development in their designs, among which is the concept of adapting to overcome a challenge in an environment that is relatively low-risk. What’s really exciting is that their...2021-02-2449 min
Trends in Med TechMedStack: The Data Privacy and Security Solution for Digital Health Companies | CEO Balaji GopalanPrior to founding MedStack Balaji Gopalan was perhaps best known as the Product Strategist who brought BlackBerry's iconic BBM service to market. Balaji is a passionate advocate of tech for good, platforms, data security and privacy and digital health.
In 2014 Balaji was looking to build a developer platform for a digital identification company called Nimy, and while holding a hackathon he serendipitously met his now co-founder of MedStack, Simon Woodside.
Fast-forward a few years and many accelerator-incubator experiences later – MedStack has affiliations with Dreamit Health, Creative Destruction Lab, 500 Startups, and Toronto’s DMZ – this partnership has gr...2021-01-1056 min
Trends in Med TechWhat do you get when you cross digital health and wound care? iWound | with Robin MossingRobin Mossing is EVP of Clinical Operations at iWound, a digital platform that is revolutionizing wound care through clinical education, standardizing assessments and treatment plans, and longitudinal monitoring for improved outcomes. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in iWound’s vision.
Robin brings with him two decades of experience as a clinician and entrepreneur to this relatively new venture. Working with an executive team that includes Dave Westlake and Rob Garneau, both business and industry veterans, and through a joint venture with Baltimore-based Tissue Analytics, Robin has been co-developing the iWound app with particular em...2020-12-291h 06
Trends in Med TechPERSONALIZED PRECISION MEDICINE IN THE REAL WORLD | Dr. Elaine ChinDr. Elaine Chin is a physician, author, founder of multiple medical and wellness centers, thought leader in the field of precision and personalized medicine and a trailblazer in putting these principles into practice.
We introduced the idea that using technology available today – called precision diagnostics – physicians can assess a patient’s unique genes and other biological markers and then use this information to custom tailor a treatment and wellness plan to that patient.
Precision medicine has grown in popularity in recent years, supported by new research and a widening scope of practice. To me, what is mos...2020-12-151h 20
Trends in Med TechAI AND VOICE POWERED CLINICAL ASSISTANT CONNECTING HEALTHCARE - Phelix AIIn this episode I spoke with the co-founders of Phelix AI, a Toronto Ontario based digital health startup that is developing a suite of AI powered clinical assistant tools for individual practices, hospitals and other healthcare services.
Hear the story behind the company’s founding, its early mission and current vision from Hassaan Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Sara Benbrahim, Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel and Varun Pulapaka, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer.
As I came to learn, Phelix is not a typical clinical automation software. Part of the founders’ vision is to improve upon inte...2020-11-2600 min
Trends in Med TechREAL-TIME CANCER THERAPY MONITORING – Cadex Genomics | Bill Haack & Greg SchaferBill Haack, CEO and Greg Schafer, CCO are part of a seasoned team that is leading an initiative to transform the way in which responsiveness to cancer treatment is assessed. If all goes to plan, the technology being developed at Cadex Genomics could impact the course of treatment for millions of late-stage (solid state) cancer patients worldwide.
At the heart of the matter is a blood-based assay called Alibrex which uses a low-cost PCR protocol to examine cell-free DNA. By comparing two blood draws taken ~2 weeks apart in patients being treated for cancer, the test is used...2020-10-2700 min
Trends in Med TechPATIENT EDUCATION SOFTWARE & REDUCING MEDICAL ERRORS - Precare.ca | Raphael GotliebRaphael Gotlieb created Precare.ca to address a growing problem in frontline healthcare – that miscommunication between providers and patients often leads to sub-optimal care, and in the worse cases, to medical errors and deaths.
Educating patients about medical procedures using contextualized audio-visual content that is language-specific to the patient has huge potential for addressing this problem. Enter Precare.ca.
In this episode we talk about the roots of the company, its approach to creating medical videos and how this all fits within the broader healthcare system.
Find out mo...2020-09-221h 01
Trends in Med TechHANDHELD BIOPRINTER TO TREAT SEVERE BURNS - ReverTome | Richard ChengWhile completing his PhD Richard worked to design and build a hand-held bioprinter – ReverTome - that can be used in real clinical settings to treat patients surviving severe burns.
But what is bioprinting and how does it work? Can this unique bioprinter really regenerate skin? We answer these and a few other questions – stay tuned in!
Richard also gives advice to biologists aspiring to broaden their pallet of research expertise with biomedical engineering. For anyone interested in translational research and commercialization of med tech this is a great listen and we hope you are inspired!
2020-09-1456 min
Trends in Med TechInside QiiQ Healthcare - Reducing Wait Times & Improving Emergency Care WorkflowsIf you’ve ever been in an emergency department you’ve probably noticed how busy, chaotic, exhausting and uncomfortable it can be. But ED’s are also places where highly trained professionals cope with extremely challenging work conditions in order to save patients’ lives.
So, how can an ED be improved to optimize healthcare service delivery, to help ensure that providers spend most of their time helping patients and to maximize the experiences and satisfaction of both patients and providers? It’s a big goal – one that will take a smart, dedicated and passionate team to accomplis...2020-09-0656 min
Trends in Med TechPhysician-Scientiest, Tech Entrepreneur & Founder TrendMD - Paul KudlowDr. Paul Kudlow MD PhD is a physician-scientist, father, Founder/Advisor and former CEO of TrendMD – the largest native advertising platform for academic research that reaches over 150 million unique visitors per month.
In this episode I talked to Paul about his transition from medical residency into founding and running TrendMD, the early stages and the ins and outs of his company, its unique value proposition, as well as his decision to ultimately get back into psychiatry. With a ton of experience under his belt, Paul shared some of the key learnings that shaped both his company an...2020-08-2754 min
Trends in Med TechHealth Enterpreneur & Commercialization Pro Rob Iaboni of Digital Health Startup CoHealthIn this episode I spoke with Rob Iaboni of CoHealth App, a digital health startup that was founded in Toronto in 2016. Since joining CoHealth App in 2017 Rob Iaboni has been instrumental in growing its partnerships and customer base (primarily hospitals and primary care clinics) and along with this its real world impact on patients. Today he leads all commercial aspects of CoHealth and has helped grow the company grow from just 3 centers to over 50 across Canada, and they're now expanding into the US.
We spoke about the need for patient-focused digital ecosystems in healthcare and some...2019-12-1053 min
Trends in Med TechHealthcare Software for the Evolving Policy Niche: Learnings from Saud Juman, Father, Founder and Former CEO of Policy MedicalIn this episode of Trends in MedTech we speak with Saud Juman, founder and former CEO of Policy Medical, a governance, risk and compliance management software for healthcare enterprises. Saud takes us through his journey of first coming up with the idea to solve a particular problem that healthcare facilities were facing, to launch and growing a full-fledged medium sized company, and then leading the successful acquisition of Policy Medical and subsequently exiting the company for a new beginning. As a young guy in his 20’s, Saud found himself driven by a passion to do meaningful work and the pu...2019-10-081h 12
Trends in Med TechWait Times, E-Referrals and Putting Service in Front of Health Tech, with Dr. Ilan Shahin, Co-Founder of ConsultLoopIn this episode we spoke with Dr. Ilan Shahin, a practicing physician-entrepreneur who has co-founded ConsultLoop, a health service navigation software that helps providers better track and manage patient referrals. One of the care problems that ConsultLoop is addressing is the lack of standardization in the traditional, paper or fax-based referral process that often results in patients falling through the cracks (still very much an issue day). A significant chunk of referrals are lost, and those missed appointments, in some cases, lead to inadvertent harm. The booking process is also very tedious for patients and providers alike. ConsultLoop address...2019-06-1759 min
Trends in Med TechRaising the Bar for Advanced Knee Assessment Technology with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of EmoviIn this episode I spoke with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of Emovi, a medical device company dedicated to developing and commercializing advanced technologies for the assessment of knee pain. Emovi began in 2008 when Michelle, a practicing lawyer at the time, was reviewing the clinical evidence behind its signature device, KneeKG, that helps clinicians to better diagnose the root causes of knee pain and make data driven treatment decisions. Michelle recognized that the technology could fill gaps in the treatment pathway and bring huge value to patients. Over the next few years, Michelle selected a team of passionate and talented experts...2019-06-0659 min
Trends in Med TechAt the Intersection of Medical Practice, Technology, and Healthcare Systems, with Dr. Damon Ramsey and Dr. Puneet Seth of InputHealthIn this episode we spoke with Dr. Damon Ramsey, CEO, and Dr. Puneet Seth, Chief Medical Officer, of InputHealth, a healthcare software company that has developed a collaborative health record system to provide higher value service to physicians and patients. Healthcare, unlike many other industries, is not traditionally one in which technology disruption are often met with praise. The nuances of healthcare service delivery, the potential impact clinical care and on patients lives, and the ubiquitous need to document in medical practice present challenges for healthcare entrepreneurs. But InputHealth is setting an example. Through its collaborations and partnerships, InputHealth...2019-05-261h 18
Trends in Med TechHow a Berry-Sized Cavernoma Changed His Life, with Sean CostellaIn this episode Sean Costella takes us through the events leading up to his diagnosis of a rare disease, a cavernoma, and how he took a leap of faith on one doctor’s opinion that ended up saving his life. When his symptoms got so bad that they couldn’t be ignored, Sean underwent an emergency surgery. Luckily, that surgery went well, but when he woke up he couldn’t see. After a long, and very difficult, recovery, Sean has returned to a pretty normal life. Through this experience he’s grown to appreciate the simple things in life that we...2019-05-1245 minTrends in Med TechPortal into the Future of Medicines Delivery Technology with Dr. Patrick Anquetil of Portal InstrumentsIn this episode we hear from Dr. Patrick Anquetil, CEO of Portal Instruments, a medical device company based in Boston, MA that aims to make needles and syringes a thing of the past. I asked Patrick about his journey from graduate research to becoming an equity analyst, and then returning to Harvard Business School to pursue his entrepreneurial interests. In his most recent venture, Portal Instruments, his team has developed a novel drug delivery technology originally licensed from MIT (lab of Dr. Ian Hunter), and is commercializing this technology through partnership with Takeda. We talked about the advantages of...2019-05-031h 07
Trends in Med TechNaturopathic Medicine: A Different Toolkit for a Functional Approach to Patient Care with Dr.Taylor BeanIn this episode we have an insightful and delightful conversation with Dr. Taylor Bean, a practicing Naturopath Doctor based in British Columbia, about the naturopathic approach to healing, and how this can be used to optimize care for patients. It was fascinating to hear her about experiences working in an Asian healthcare system, and how vaccination practices differ across regions. We dive into her perspective on caring for complex patients with Lyme disease, and on maternal care. We also spoke about the new world of abundant medical information, and the use of use of various technologies within her practice...2019-04-291h 22
Trends in Med TechIt's all in the Nutri: Educating People About Nutrition, Supplements & Choices with Sahar KafiIn this episode I speak with Sahar Kafi about her passion of informing people about food and nutrition supplements as a vehicle to improve their health. She advocates for the importance of enabling people to make educated decisions about what they consume, because these choices play a key role in maintaining energy and overall health. We also dive into trends we've observed in the nutraceuticals industry, and how technology can be used to connect with, educate and build connections with customers who can learn how to live healthier lives. 2019-04-2154 min
Trends in Med TechNature's Medicine, Holistic Healing & Owning Your Health with Carrie DolhaIn this episode I have a candid conversation with Carie Dolha about her personal experience with a difficult diagnosis, and how she had to change her mindset to take ownership of her health and recovery. Through this journey she discovered the medicinal properties of plants, and gained a new perspective on health and a newfound sense of self healing. Carrie has a strong message for anyone going through a similar life experience who needs some advice. Stay tuned to find out more - and enjoy!2019-04-1359 min
Trends in Med TechBeyond Taboo: Treating Illness with Medical Cannabis with Chris MacmillanIn this episode I talk with Chris Macmillan about the legalization of medical cannabis in Canada, product accessibility to patients who can benefit from its medicinal properties, and Chris's vision for the industry. If you're new to the topic of legalizing cannabis and are interested in learning how you might be able to use it to manage an ailment, check this out!2019-03-3059 minTrends in Med TechIntro to MedTech TrendsWelcome to MedTech Trends!
This is my introduction episode where I talk about my vision for this podcast. I start by introducing myself and how I got into the healthcare industry, which is the central theme of this podcast, and talk about a few topics that I will be diving into throughout the podcast.
You will hear about my background in epidemiology, and how that field is using statistical methods to de-mystify medical research that we hear about regularly in the news.
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