Accelerating Digital Adoption in Healthcare

In this episode of the Digital Adoption Accelerator podcast, host Jake Herway sits down with Ruby Kansagra , Regulatory Portfolio Content Lead at Roche , to explore how AI is transforming regulatory content workflows. Ruby shares her journey from AI novice to leading a groundbreaking initiative at Roche to develop an AI-powered content authoring platform. Together, they discuss the challenges of i...

In this episode of the Digital Adoption Accelerator Podcast, Jake Herway speaks with Teresa Eastwood-Kiefer , the Regulatory Data and Content Leader at Roche . Teresa shares her experience with generative AI and automation in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on how these technologies are helping deliver life-saving medicines faster to patients. The conversation explores Teresa’s journey, from...

Bo has seen every corner of the tech world, and the natural world! With the accumulation of experience, insatiable curiosity, Bo has launched from Amazon to found Scientix.ai, next generation Ontology for Healthcare & Life Sciences. A humanist first, his unmatched AI and tech talent is approachable and real. Going after interoperability in data sets along the healthcare value chain and within...

It’s not necessarily the technology as much, it’s really the digital mindset and how you think about digital and transforming. It’s really transforming the way you’re working. To be honest with you, how much of this is hype? How much of this is reality is something we need to sort out and be careful how we are using it. Biopharma is known to be a little slow adapting of these technologies, but eve...

"Implementation beats knowledge every day of the week. Instead of landscaping and scoping over and over again, by the time you’re finished 30-40-50% is obsolete. My advice is take something, implement it. Add value as fast as you can. Don’t watch from the sidelines, just get it done and implement something that is useful for the organization." "We were able to create the space to step back, clear...

“You cannot just change the mindset because from tomorrow on this is a new mindset. This is a journey. You need to create an experience.” “Change is connected to how you organize yourself and where you spend your time. To focus and prioritize on what is really important. If I can be a good example to my leadership team, it’s something which has a very high likelihood to be scaled.” “Being more eff...

“We are designing scalability from day 1!” “You have to come into this with the right mindset from the beginning that you’re going to shape this and you are going to redefine or define for the first time what these roles could look like. No one has done this before. It’s our chance to do it for the first time.” “We are at this point where we can design what our jobs can look like, what our workflo...

“Sometimes constraints are a beautiful thing. Constraints allow you to think out of the box because you have to find a way out of it. Failure is not an option…no option of going back. I have to figure it out. And it’s quite amazing what people can come up with!” “There is no option but to try. Unless you have tried it you will not know if it’s going to work out. You have to at least try it. I only...

“Have trust in yourself so others can build trust in you. While it may sound obvious, it is not.” “Building trust and having trust in oneself takes time. It’s not just bringing in your skill sets, but everything that comes along with it." "This group was able to build up trust not doing anything business related and then all of a sudden everything came up very quickly. We took so much care buildin...

Better healthcare to more patients faster. Faster is theoperative word. If we can get back into people’s mindset, it would be agreat opportunity. For example I was talking with one of my colleagues and he was giving himself permission to be disruptive, to try to let go of restraints. If we can help peopleunderstand it’s not the fear of the unknown, it’s the opportunity of the unknown. It’s limitle...

"Go where the conflict is. That's where you grow. I get a lot of energy working with companies and cohorts going after big problems." "Coming from technology we tend to think the solution to every problem is technology. It's not the technology. Often times we're not even operating at the same plane. Something as simple as have we all oriented to the context? People jump into the problem and can't...

Ex-Pfizer, Novartis, Merck executive and AI geek building what's next! “My main concern was I’m going to be distracted from the work that needs to be done. I was doing the first commercial launch in 35 plus years of the company. So that was a big deal. I’m seeing this differently. I got frameworks and this is about mindset, having the right mindset to test and try. Because if not, this is not goin...

“Sometimes you need to push yourself out of your comfortzone and try things that are different and experience some uncertainty. That’s where the magic happens.” “You have to be in the intrapreneur mindset in digital adoption. How do you take the entrepreneurial mindset you might have in a small company and bring that within a big company for patients?” “How do we serve as the missing link between...

Ever struggled to measure business impact of digital adoption? You might want to stay close to Guoying’s journey. This is her next horizon. And she has a track record full of successful firsts. A pioneer who makes it happen. “Industry company experts had discussions with us and itcreates that sense of urgency, gives that clear realization that digital acceleration is not a choice at this point. It...

"AI isn't going to care if you believe it, use it, or buy into it, it's going to change the future."