Health Unchained Podcast

In this episode, I had the chance to speak with Vasja Bocko, founder and CEO of Iryo, an early stage healthcare IT company from Slovenia. We discuss the IRYO’s journey so far and the importance of permissioning private health data using blockchain technology. IRYO runs on the EOS network and is focused on creating an open-sourced EHR platform with zero-knowledge encryption. I apologize in advance...

We discuss the origins of SV Health and the challenges she faces bringing new technology into the slow-moving healthcare industry. Their featured platform HealthNexus is a globally HIPAA compatible protocol and forked from the ethereum blockchain. Kat is Health Unchained’s first female guest and I would certainly encourage other women entrepreneurs to get involved with building these new types of...

This week’s guest is Dr. Michael Kaldasch, CEO of Aimedis, in Germany. I want to quickly thank my previous guest Girisha Fernando from DIGIPHARM for connecting me with Dr. Kaldasch. Aimedis is a startup trying to build a comprehensive healthcare ecosystem that can store your health records, interact with providers using video chat, and a social media community. They are using blockchain technology...

In this episode, I spoke with the Swiss-based DigiPharm team who are trying to tackle some of healthcare’s most challenging problems, specifically in the pharmaceutical pricing and clinical trial space. Both the CEO, Ahmed Abdulla, and the COO, Girisha Fernando are co-founders of DigiPharm and have spent parts of their careers working at the 2nd largest global pharmaceutical company by revenue, Ro...

In this episode, we dove really deep into medical records. I know our guests from episode 1 and 3 were also involved with medical records but this guest is truly an expert on how medical records have evolved ever since the mandatory transition for providers to move medical records from paper to digital. Show Notes: What does Health Record Banking Alliance do? Why is it us taking so long to easily...

UK based electronic health records Pilot with Groves Medical Group Benefits of international medical consultations using cryptocurrencies Telemedicine technology Hospitals, non-profit, universities as Guardians of data The importance of having access to medical records for a surgeon Working at the NHS as a clinical doctor Why healthcare industry is a laggard in technology adoption? Touch Surgery u...

Tracking drugs after they’ve left the manufacturer has traditionally been an afterthought. Pharmaceutical companies now want to use downstream post-delivery data to improve their products and ensure quality. Healthcare regulators would like to see better management of drugs throughout the entire drug life cycle. Identifying counterfeit drugs is a huge global challenge and the pharma industry is st...

Electronic file cabinet on your phone Medical record ownership How blockchain can verify provenance of medical data Consumer first adoption as a strategic decision not hospital systems consortiums Origins of Health Wizz (acquisition of KreateIoT) and Omcoin tokens Wearable data and digital health identity Using the ethereum blockchain for trading digital healthcare assets and reward tokens New tec...