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In the ever-evolving and rapidly changing healthcare space, innovations in technology are often the primary focus of breakthroughs in achieving optimal outcomes, and while deep tech will continue to play an increasingly important role in achieving efficiencies alongside improved outcomes, it’s also important to highlight the hands-on innovations that are crafted by clinicians through their many years of experience and creative energies propelled by a desire to transform lives. In theory, technologists are using deep tech like AI to replicate human behavior with the promised upside of allowing people to perform more complex and higher-value tasks, which ultimately leads to expanding the innovation curve.

In today’s episode of The TechLink Health Podcast, we discuss this process of innovation as it relates to breakthroughs in surgical procedures, particularly focused on nasal abnormalities and the connection to migraines.

This particular breakthrough is told through the story of Dr. Kevin Smith, an ENT / Facial Plastic surgeon and the creator of The Smith Sinus Migraine Technique, a revolutionary surgical procedure designed to eliminate migraines of all types by normalizing the nose. At the heart of the groundbreaking procedure is targeting the root cause of migraines – specific nasal abnormalities. Through meticulous evaluation and treatment, Dr. Smith has achieved an impressive success rate, with over 4,000 procedures performed and a remarkable 90% of patients experiencing complete or significant relief. Additionally, his research and case reports have shed light on the profound impact of nasal surgery not only on migraines but a potential connection between migraines and neurological symptoms and disorders like MS, Parkinson’s and Asperger’s.

Listen in with us as we journey through a refreshing story of how curiosity, empathy, and crafted expertise can lead to innovative breakthroughs in healthcare. Other insights range from how corporations can recoup lost revenue from migraines that cause absenteeism and lost productivity, to ways consumers can be more proactive in becoming their own health advocates, to how nasal screening can help to enhance performance for professional athletes. It has been shown that optimal nasal breathing can increase endurance time to fatigue by 50%! What impact could optimal nasal breathing have for the upcoming Olympic Athletes in Paris?

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For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Dr. Smith on the web or social media.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

🔬 Relevant Conditions: Migraines, Severe Chronic Headaches, Sleep Apnea

The episode points to several references with links below:

🗓️ June is Migraine & Headache Awareness Month!

📙 The Migraine Imposter (Coming Soon!)

📲 4 FDA-Cleared Devices That Can Treat Your Migraines

🌐 Cost of Migraines in the Workplace

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app. For medical practitioners that have expertise with any referenced technologies, feel free to hashtag in your TechLink Health bio. This episode's HealthLink tags are: #TheSmithSinusMigraineTechnique

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This episode of The TechLink Health Podcast digs deeper into the future of health from an organizational level and how companies are harnessing the power of deep technology to improve health outcomes at global scale.

In the Pre-COVID era, many noted that the healthcare industry was primed for a major disruption, and then the pandemic hit, which acted as a catalyst for change within the industry and a leap into the future of care with respects to digital health solutions such as tele-health, remote patient monitoring alongside deep tech such as AI and algorithmic driven tools. This shift in the industry is happening in parallel to an increased focus on Value Based Care initiatives such as outcome-based payment models, patient-centered care models, improved quality of metrics alongside increases in preventive services and wellness programs. One of the complexities associated with this transformation is the organizational and cultural shifts that are driving health entities and organizations to be more agile in the quest to implement change and take advantage of the emerging era of deep tech. The future of global health is promising, but the journey to get there is an intensive effort driven by the coordination of key players across the spectrum of large organizations, public sector partners, and fast-moving startups.

Here to talk about all of this and more is this episode’s guest, Ritwik Batabyal, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for Mastek, an enterprise digital and cloud transformation partner that engineers excellence for customers across industries, including healthcare and life sciences, spanning 40 countries, including the UK, US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Ritwik’s role is directly tied to enabling relevant new disruptive technologies and creating monetization strategies at the intersections of Data and AI across industries, while crafting long-term technology innovation roadmaps and building partnerships with start-ups & external innovation ecosystems.

Listen in with us to learn more about the fundamental shift to Value-Based Care and the deep technologies that are helping to drive the transformation.

Other insights range from how collaboration between larger corporations and nimble startups can expand the innovation curve, to key areas of focus for creating a more equitable future in healthcare, to how the integration of AI-tech with IoT devices is helping to evolve precision medicine.

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Ritwik on LinkedIn.

This episode was hosted by David Sanchez, RN, Medical SEO Consultant and Dr. Sarah Samaan.

The episode points to several references with links below:

🌎 Peter Diamandis: Companies, Books, and Projects

Eric Topol Selection of Books:

📗 Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

📙 The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

📙 Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app.

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The proliferation of emerging technologies within healthcare stands to solve many problems while increasing efficiencies alongside accelerating safer and smarter solutions, but the path to the future is still early in the development cycle and there are several challenges as well as opportunities on the horizon.  For example, in the past we’ve talked about the topics of data integrity and data biases to build sustainable and inclusive models, alongside the need to build out future-of-society models to enhance regulation and moderate the societal transformation process, while at the same time rethinking the future of care and keeping an open mind to the possibilities.

In this episode, we dig deeper into the latest developments in data-driven surgical procedures and how technologies such as AI are shaping the future.

This episode’s guest is Dennis Kogan, health-tech entrepreneur, investor, and Founder CEO of Caresyntax, a company pioneering a new era of data-driven surgery by using AI-powered software, devices, and clinical services to make surgical procedures safer, smarter, and more efficient. Caresyntax's clients are health systems, multinational insurers and industry partners. Caresyntax solutions are present in over 3,000 operating rooms around the world, and supports surgical teams in more than three million procedures per year. 

Dennis is a global pioneer in the Healthcare AI space, building teams and products to address problems in various key markets globally.  His approach is rooted in his upbringing amongst a physician-heavy family alongside deep technical and business expertise with degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Business School.

Listen in with us as we share a pioneering journey into the emerging realm of Data-Driven Surgery and learn more about how data-driven technologies are influencing next generation solutions that give practitioners an operational advantage.

Other insights range from how data is the fuel powering the future of health, to the growing need for the discoverability of new technologies to unlock efficiency gains, safer outcomes, and smarter procedures, to how clinicians are increasingly engaging as technologists while increasing the benefits of care.

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Dennis on LinkedIn.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

The episode points to several references with links below:

🌐 Caresyntax Announces Highlights of 2023

🌐 World Economic Forum: Future of Health and Healthcare

🌐 The Milken Institute: Catalyzing Solutions, Building Meaningful Lives

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app.

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The proliferation of emerging technologies within healthcare stands to deliver the promises of increased efficiencies, more accurate diagnostics, and expanded access to care, funneling into an overarching theme of health equity, but the path to the future is still early in the development cycle and there are several challenges as well as opportunities on the horizon.  For one, there’s the topics of data integrity and data biases to build sustainable and inclusive models, then there’s the need to build out future-of-society models to enhance regulation and moderate the societal transformation process, and at the same time all of this is happening, we will need to rethink the future of work within healthcare and keep an open mind to the possibilities.

In this episode, we dig deeper into the latest happenings of AI-Diagnostics and how the technology is shaping the future of health. We’ll essentially decode the potential of AI-Diagnostics as told through the story of Digital Diagnostics, a pioneering AI diagnostics company on a mission to transform the accessibility, affordability, equity, and quality of healthcare.

This episode’s guest is John Bertrand, an experienced business leader at the cross-section of healthcare and technology, and the CEO of Digital Diagnostics.  Through his 15+ years in the healthcare technology industry, John has developed expertise in identifying market opportunities, creating new products, pivoting existing businesses, and building strong teams.

Listen in with us as we share a pioneering journey into the emerging realm of AI-driven technologies with a lens into the successes and opportunities that exist to ensure that health outcomes are improved, at scale, in a way that progresses society toward a healthier future for all.

Other insights range from the importance of ethics and equity in the building of AI models, to how 5G technologies are helping to improve health outcomes in remote locations, to how gaining industry adoption continues to be one of the biggest hurdles for the jump into the future. Also, what is embedded AI and how can it help to ensure efficiency gains with the technology?

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with John on LinkedIn.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

🔬 Relevant Conditions: Diabetic Retinopathy, Diabetes

The episode points to several references with links below:

🌎 Digital Diagnostics and Orbis International announce study to help save sight in Bangladesh

🌎 Digital Diagnostics and Tamer Healthcare Announce Strategic Partnership in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

🌐 Digital Diagnostics and Baxter Announce New Partnership to Advance Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

🌐 HLTH Matters Blog

📙 The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app. For medical practitioners that have expertise with the Digital Diagnostics technologies, feel free to hashtag in your TechLink Health bio. This episode's HealthLink tags are: #LumineticsCore

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The power of collaboration between key stakeholders within health systems is a critical factor in the journey to improve health outcomes at global scale. This episode digs deeper into the future of health from an organizational level and how companies are harnessing the power of technology to transform the industry.

One of the complexities of this societal transformation is at the intersection of unique journeys for patients, providers, and organizations.  Patients are transitioning to a more proactive and preventive consumer mindset in the quest for health equity and outcomes, and at the same time, providers are seeking ways to leverage technologies to improve outcomes and efficiencies while also dealing with industry challenges compounded by the global pandemic; all while organizations stand to play an increasingly important role as the stewards of global resources across the spectrum of human and economic capital.  The future of global health is promising, but it’s critical to connect the dots across stakeholders and share perspectives that spark the creative energy necessary to move the dial.

This episode’s guest is Shanil Ebrahim, a Partner and the National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada. Shanil has also served as a Clinical Epidemiologist, and has held joint appointments as an Assistant Professor at McMaster University and a Researcher at Stanford University. Shanil is a senior advisor for health public sector and private sector clients, and specializes in healthcare and life sciences strategy and innovation, tech-enabled business transformations, public-private partnerships, and advanced applications of technologies such as AI. He has more than 80 publications in high impact journals, and has had his work covered by major national and international news outlets.

Listen in with us as we connect the dots between the current state of healthcare to a future state that leverages technology to advance the paths to prevention, longevity, and personalized treatments alongside more equitable access to care solutions.

Other insights range from how digital twin technologies can improve efficiencies within health systems, to ways that clinicians can create value for large scale consulting engagements, to the power of collaboration between startups and large organizations to co-innovate and improve health outcomes.

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Shanil on LinkedIn.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

The episode points to several references with links below:

🌐 Deloitte's 2024 Global Health Care Sector Outlook

🌐 Deloitte’s 2040 Vision for the Future of Health

📙 The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

📗 Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app.

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When thinking about holistic health and wellbeing, there are a number of factors that go into the wellness equation, ranging from mental and physical health to financial wellbeing and professional vitality.  This episode is a continuation of The TechLink Wealth series and focuses on financial wellbeing and professional vitality. From a financial perspective, particularly with physicians, the financial path to wellness looks and feels very different, which calls for a unique approach to create strategies that address the complexities associated with the profession.

This episode’s guest is Alexis Gallati, a Tax Strategist and Published Author, who is the Founder of Cerebral Tax Advisors, a company dedicated to facilitating tax strategies for medical professionals through education and planning.

The Cerebral Tax Advisors mission is tied to stepping outside the emotions of finances and using cerebral thinking to delve deep into the tax strategies that will allow clinicians to keep more of their hard earned money. Alexis is also the author of Advanced Tax Planning for Medical Professionals.

Listen in with us as we dive into finance strategies that are particularly relevant to healthcare practitioners that engage with side gigs and independent advisory work.

Other insights range from how to take a strategic approach when exploring side gigs in healthcare to business strategies for independent professionals to helpful tips on practical uses for financial technologies.

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Cerebral Tax Advisors here.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

The episode points to several references with links below:

🌐 Cerebral Tax Advisors Link for The TechLink Health Podcast

🌐 Cerebral Wealth Academy

📙 Advanced Tax Planning for Medical Professionals by Alexis Gallati, EA, MBA, MS Tax, CTS

📗 Taxes Made Simple by Mike Piper

📘 Tax Books by J.K. Lasser

If you're a healthcare practitioner or thought leader and interested in leveraging the TechLink Health platform for digital health, e-consults, or advisory services, feel free to connect with us by visiting our site and downloading the TechLink Health app.

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