Digital Orthopaedics Conference (DOCSF)

Welcome to the captivating conclusion of the ASC Panel: Exploring the Future of Outpatient Surgery! In this riveting discussion, our panel tackles the intricate challenges associated with performing high-acuity cases in surgery centers. They delve into crucial aspects such as ensuring patient safety, optimizing equipment and staffing, and enhancing patient satisfaction. A key highlight from the co...

Welcome to Part 1 of the ASC Panel on "The Shift to Outpatient Surgery" from the Digital Orthopedics Podcast! In this enlightening episode, our panel of experts dives into the transformative shift from inpatient to outpatient surgery, with a specific focus on the United States. They share insights on the most common cases encountered in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), such as joint replacements...

Join us as our main host, Stefano Bini, MD takes us on a captivating journey through the history and evolution of the Digital Orthopedics Conference! This conference serves as a vital platform at the intersection of technology and healthcare, bringing together physicians, tech experts, venture capitalists, and hospital systems. Their collective goal is to explore cutting-edge technology, change ma...

Welcome to Part 2 of the captivating Bone Tank discussion! If you haven't had the chance, we encourage you to listen to Part 1 first to fully grasp the latest innovations in the field. In this continuation, we delve deeper into the discussions surrounding various digital health companies dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes in orthopedic care. On Bone Tank, we bring you the voices of these star...

Welcome to Bone Tank, our very own version of Shark Tank, dedicated to showcasing the brightest minds in the surgical innovation field! In partnership with Mark Goldstein from The Digital Health Hub Foundation and Digital Health Awards, we have assembled an exceptional panel of experts, including the highly qualified Siddart Sattish from Stryker, Stuart Simpson, CEO of Think Surgical, the accompli...

Join us as we delve into the future of investments in the US! In this captivating episode, Stefano Bini and Unity Stoakes lead the discussion, unveiling Startup Health's groundbreaking vision for the market. They guide us through the profound impact of the past decade of health innovation, the current era of chaos that poses a potential mass extinction event for some companies, and the exhilaratin...

We are delighted to welcome back Nancy Lynch, MD, MBA to our show, where she will be sharing insights on investment and innovation in the MSK (musculoskeletal) space. Dr. Lynch highlights that a significant portion of recent investments has been directed towards ortho-facilitated ancillary technologies, with an impressive 75% of these investments being AI-based. She also addresses the impact of th...

This podcast episode features Dr. Daniel Kraft, a physician-scientist. Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded Exponential Medicine , a program (now evolved to NextMed Health ) that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. In this episode, Dr. Kraft delve...

Let's dive into the transformative concept of Private Practice 3.0! In the healthcare industry, private practice can be challenging. But with Private Practice 3.0, we're bringing together ambulatory surgery centers and digital orthopedics to create a better patient experience. Say goodbye to long waits and minimal face time with the doctor! In this episode, we have Jared Weir as our guest, who sha...

Let's talk about the importance of user design! Join us as Dennis Boyle, an industrial designer, and mechanical engineer, shares his insights on design thinking in healthcare. He emphasizes the need to prioritize users and their needs, fostering empathy and creating solutions for extreme cases. Boyle provides fascinating examples, like designing a hiking sandal and a pill pack for people on multip...

In this exciting episode, Mohan Nair discusses creativity and market-making with AI. Nair shares his insights on the challenges of launching new ideas in large institutions and the importance of being an innovator in a rapidly changing world. He emphasizes the impact of AI on society and the need for a human perspective. Drawing from his experience in innovation, Nair reveals how to navigate the e...

Welcome back to the Digital Orthopedics Podcast, where we bring you insightful discussions from the UCSF Digital Orthopedics Conference that took place in San Francisco from May 3rd to May 5th, 2023! This conference is dedicated to exploring the digital transformation of outpatient surgery, with a strong focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI, vi...

In this episode, Doug Fairbanks, CEO of Advanced Scanners, discusses the impact of user experience on surgical-enabling technologies with the help of new features in robotics. Advanced Scanners is a deep-tech scanning company in Austin, Texas, and Doug has 20+ years of working at the intersection of technology, orthopedics, and commercialization. Doug starts by pointing out how a graphic user inte...

In this episode, Zack Scott, General Partner from Norwest Venture Partners, Ruchita Sinha, General Partner from AV8 Ventures, and Gregory Grunberg, Managing Director from Longitude Capital, share their vision for the future of venture capital investments and how they feel about the trends they’re seeing. In the current economic climate, 2021’s venture boost fell to a more cautious, yet optimistic,...

In this episode, Dr. Bill Hunter, Founder, President, and CEO of Canary Medical, presents the early interpretation and exciting potential of data taken from implantable prostheses. In this case, the data comes from Zimmer Biomet’s IQ Knee. This product uses a variety of sensors to record a wide array of activity metrics from inside the knee to provide data that might be useful for doctors: step co...

In this episode, Kyle Rose, Managing Director of Medical Technology, and Richard Close, Managing Director of Digital & Tech-Enabled Health Equity Research represent the Canaccord Genuity investment bank and give their perspective on the 2022’s MSK investment data pulled from Silicon Valley Bank’s annual report for Healthcare Investments and Exits. Richard Close is Cannacord’s Managing Director...

Welcome to DOCSF Venture 2023!  In this episode, Dr. Doctor Nancy Lynch, Founder, and President of Advisorthopædics and DOCSF Venture Director presents a detailed analysis of the trends in 2022’s MSK investments with data from Silicon Valley Bank’s annual report for Healthcare Investments and Exits. As explained by Dr. Lynch, the data shows that 2022 didn’t match 2021’s unprecedented peaks, b...

Digital transformation not only regards technology; it's about the intersection of technology with people and processes. In this episode, Paul Limbrey, Managing Director for Global Agencies and Partners at Google, talks about digital transformation and key things he's learned about the successful implementation of new technology in any system. He breaks down four good things that result when landi...

In this episode, Katya Hancock, partner, and director of StartUp Health Network at StartUp Health introduces two of their companies and what they're doing in healthcare. She also shares their moonshots: big health challenges of our time. Victor Wang, CEO of care.coach talks about how his company is solving the caregiver crisis with pet avatars. Nicolas Rosencovich, CEO and co-founder of MindCo Hea...

In this episode, Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous AI, illustrates what it means to live in a world of complete virtual and augmented reality: the metaverse. Louis has been working in this field since the late eighties, but technology has only caught up recently to make VR and AR widely accessible and not just something used for education purposes in the healthcare industry. With the rise of the I...

In this episode, Shafi Ahmed, Chief Medical Officer, and surgeon at the Royal London Hospital for the NHS, presents what has been the arrival of the metaverse to the healthcare industry.  Thanks to 5G and Virtual Reality technology, there are many possibilities and opportunities for healthcare that are starting to pop up. We might be looking at the dawn of a brand new hospital experience within th...

In this episode, Alex Flores, Head of Global Health Solutions Vertical, Health, and Life Sciences Organization at Intel Corporation, talks about how the company partners and develops technology to solve some of the industry's most challenging problems. He speaks about what he considers the four technology superpowers and the tech-driven transformation they bring to healthcare. Alex starts by retel...

In this episode, Fabrizio Billi, Scientific Director at DOCSF, and Lee Grossman, CEO at OREF, moderate a discussion around six papers on sensors, extended reality, virtual reality, and augmented reality in orthopedics.  In the module about sensors, they welcomed Jeffrey Lotz, Vice Chair of Research in Orthopedic Surgery at UCSF, and Cory Calendine, an orthopedic surgeon, where they review three pa...

In this episode, Ivan Poupyrev, Director of Google ATAP, Advanced Technologies and Products Division, Nicholas Gillian, lead machine learning engineer at Google Atap, and Stefano Bini, professor of orthopedic surgery at UCSF, talk about a project they are working on together where they use sensors to improve the ability to collect data from patients. This project seeks to explore modern techniques...

In this episode, John Bass, founder, and CEO of Hashed Health talks about the future of payments in healthcare systems using Web3 technologies.   Payments are currently a complicated, costly, and inefficient part of healthcare. The health systems and processes in place were designed for a time that has now passed. Many are migrating from the traditional fee-for-service payment models to value-base...