Digital Orthopaedics Conference (DOCSF)

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Luigi Zagra . As you will hear in his introduction, he is a very well-known orthopaedic surgeon who runs one of the largest orthopaedic hospitals in Europe. Prior to covid-19, they performed over 4,000 orthopaedic procedures a year. Today they perform only emergent surgery and their hospital is primarily used to care for sick patients. On the podcast,...

In this Episode 21 of Season 3, we invited our friends from Healthware International to share the DOCSF stage. Healthware is a consulting firm with expertese is in launching and implementing digital health solutions in Europe and across the globe. So it was fitting that they should present a leader’s roadmap to digital health. Join us on the DOCSF stage for the second presentation delivered by Ger...

In this, Episode 22 of Season 3, our last episode of the season, we bring you a superstar from California’s Silicon Valley. She was portfolio director at Start Up Health where she worked with over 300 companies and 500 entrepreneurs. Her talk on raising capital and running a start up was very well received and a fitting presentation to close out Season 3. Since the taping of the episode, Polina ha...

In this Episode 20 of Season 3, we invited our friends from Healthware International, to share the DOCSF stage. Healthcare International is a consulting firm with expertise in launching and implementing digital health solutions in Europe and across the globe. So it was fitting that the title of their segment would be “A leader’s roadmap to digital health”. Join us on the DOCSF stage for the first...

In this Episode 19 of Season 3, we invited Nilesh Jain, CEO of the highly successful India based telehealth Platform, to DOCSF Berlin to present a case study of a successful implementation and what they learned from their experience. The panel for the Q&A was moderated by Professor Tobias Winkler from the Charite’ hospital in Berlin. Get more content: Browse episodes on the DOCSF Podcast Brows...

In this, Episode 17 of Season 3, we bring you two outstanding talks. We started with Mr. Tom Harte, a doctor from the UK and Co-Founder of MyRecovery.ai one of the leading telehealth companies in the UK, who was uniquely positioned to discuss the opportunities of this technology in the EU. He was followed by Dr. Dominik Pforringer, an orthopaedic Surgeon working in Germany and very involved with t...

In this, Episode 18 of season 3, we invited Nora Ztesche CEO of Veta Health to DOCSF Berlin to present her success with building care pathways in the EU. She shared a terrific case study and her discussion with a panel of european experts was moderated by none other than Shawna Butler, the host of the See You Know podcast and Managing Director of Exponential Medicine as well as the Director of exp...

On this, Episode 16 of Season 3, we start our 7 podcast series from DOCSF BERLIN hosted at the end of 2019 with Frontiers Health. Our first presentation will be the Keynote with Lucien Engelen, one of Europe’s Pioneers in the digital health space who was instrumental in introducing telehealth and other technologies in the Netherlands and the rest of the EU. He is now working for Deloitte and we we...

On this, Episode 14 of Season 3, we dive into Operations. OPs is really cool. We love Ops. Ops is how a leadership team puts in place the infrastructure necessary for change to succeed. Understanding Ops is a key aspect of successful execution. And, as you know, Execution is Everything. We now bring you two talks from people with Black Belts in Ops and a great moderator who can ask the tough quest...

On this, episode 15 of Season 3, our last episode from DOCSF2020, our case study will feature a company that has real world experience on how the use of data and analytics can solve real problems for their client health institutions. Jean Drouin, the charismatic CEO and Founder of Clarify Health developed many insights while working side by side with Tony Blair rebuilding the NHS many years ago as...

On this, EpIsode 13 of Season 3, we are truly excited to bring you our second and equally powerful keynote from DOCSF 2020. Ivan Poupyriev is the Director of Engineering at Google. When I first heard Ivan speak at TED 2019, I had the impression that I had been given the opportunity to peak just over the horizon and get a glimpse of the future of computing. I knew there and then that we should try...

On this, Episode 12 of Season 3, we present the fourth case study from DOCSF 2020. Apprentice Health is focused on the use of artificial intelligence and sensors to optimize the use of fixed resources in the context of the outpatient clinic. Their pilot study at Duke University was so successful that Duke decided to deploy them system wide. That sort of success suggests that the technology address...

On Episode 11 of Season 3, we are presenting the third of our case studies. Our third company is aptly named Inspiren, a hybrid sensing platform that leverages computer vision, environmental sensing, and IoT connectivity to analyze, understand and respond to the patient’s physical environment. It is a company that caught our attention because of two reasons: the first is that it solves a real prob...

On this, Episode 10 of Season 3, we will be focusing on solving problems and executing strategies in the outpatient setting. The theme is “managing patients in the best venue”. That could mean in a virtual venue, at home, at a remote clinic, in the inner city or on a smart device. And what will the advent of 5G and high-speed connectivity mean for delivery platforms? Let’s take a deep dive in the...

On this episode 9 of season 3, we introduced a new feature at DOCSF called Energy Boost... and, well, we liked it... A lot. Orthopaedics is all about restoring motion and maintaining musculoskeletal health. So we took a moment to celebrate the technologies and ideas that keep us well. We asked Matt Wilpers, one of the founding instructors at Peloton, to join us all the way from NYC from where he c...

This is Episode 8 of Season 3 of the digital orthopaedics podcast. We in healthcare are not, alas, the first to digitize an entire sector of the economy. Oddly, we are the last. Let’s just say that we wanted everyone else to get all the kinks sorted out first. And since we get to go last, let’s not repeat the same mistakes. Let’s learn from the past. Let’s learn from the Banking Industry. Javier E...

On this, Episode 7 of Season 3, we bring you our second case study focused on the inpatient space: asparia.com. Asparia is a chat bot interface deeply embedded in EHRs like EPIC, and used to engage with patients based on triggers from the electronic health record. Chat bots are a big deal in the healthcare space and we expect them to have a big impact on our ability to manage incoming calls to bus...

On this Episode 6 of Season 3, we bring you the first case study. At DOCSF, the case studies follow the focus lectures and are designed to make the theory of the lectures practical realities. To do so, we ask a successful digital health company to explain how they were able to deploy their technology in the healthcare space. We will now listen in... as Neeraj Bhavari, CEO of tagnos, explains to ou...

Our guests: On this, Episode 5 of Season 3, we bring you Kevin Bozic, MD MBA, Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas to discuss the opportunities for digital technologies in the inpatient setting. He is followed by Molly McCarthy, chief Nursing officer at Microsoft who will speak about Microsoft’s efforts and partnerships with traditi...

Our guest: This is Episode 4 of Season 3 of the Digital Orthopaedics Podcast. DOCSF is famous for bringing outside thinking to our healthcare audience. From the CEO of Niantic (think: Poke’mon Go) speaking about how to scale augmented reality to change behavior, to the Chief Product Officer of UnderArmour speaking about how their sportswear company is becoming a data company with 230 million peopl...

Our guest: In this episode, we speak with Robert Cohen, VP of Global R&D, Chief Technology Officer at Stryker Joint Replacement. Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies, and is leading the development of new ways to transform and enhance the technology available in musculoskeletal care.   Robert shared some insights on the work Stryker is doing to improve surgical pr...

Our guest: In this episode, we hear from Molly K. McCarthy MBA, BSN, RN-BC. Molly is the National Director, US Provider Industry and Chief Nursing Officer for Microsoft. Molly shares her path that led her from from nursing to technology leadership. Molly discusses the use of the HoloLens, education and the 3 key business areas at Microsoft Health, which are: 1) Helping clients migrate to the cloud...

The DOCSF meeting is a great way to get geared up before #JPM Week in San Francisco. Now in its fourth year, the Digital Orthopedics Conference, San Francisco, is organized by Prof Stefano Bini and Shawna Butler. This year, the sessions featured leaders from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, AmazonCare and many other amazing organizations. Dan Kendall, host of the Digital Health Today podcast, interview...

On this podcast we dive into policy and its impact on healthcare. We were very fortunate to have Dr. Tom Barber from UCSF leading the panel. Tom was the chair of the Council for Advocacy for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and his experience roaming the halls of congress coupled to his personal interest in health care policy made him a perfect person to bring our audience up to date wi...

Today, we will take a deep dive into one company that has build a sensor with a very specific goal and taken it to market. We pick up the story with Dr. Peter Schilling and his amazing panel of experts in one of the breakout rooms at DOCSF 2019 as they introduce the team from Orthosensor. --- Learn more about the DOCSF conference by visiting docsf.health ---