Empowered Patient Podcast

Karen Jagoda
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Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda is a window into the latest innovations in digital health, the changing dynamic between doctors and patients, and the emergence of precision medicine. The show covers such topics as aging in place, innovative uses for wearables and sensors, advances in clinical research, applied genetics, drug development, and challenges for connected health entrepreneurs.

  1. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    Improving Predictive Model Accuracy for Population Health Risk Scoring with Rakshith Yashvanth ZeOmega TRANSCRIPT

    Rakshith Yashvanth, Senior Product Manager, Advanced Analytics & AI at ZeOmega, emphasizes that effective AI implementation in clinical settings requires comprehensive data across clinical, social, utilization, and behavioral elements, not cherry-picked variables. Real-world data indicates that traditional social determinants of health often miss critical behavioral patterns and healthcare engagement. Rakshith points out that AI must be positioned as a probabilistic tool that supports clinical decision-making rather than replacing clinical judgment, with a mechanism that lets clinicians provide feedback to improve model alignment with clinical reality.     Rakshith explains, "ZeOmega focuses more on the population health technology space. Our clients usually are risk-bearing organizations. We have health plans that cover a wide range of populations, including Medicaid, Medicare, commercial, ACOs, and other MSOs and similar entities. So we primarily focus on providing tools to these organizations so they can measure risk, manage risk, and manage their members' overall health and well-being."    "AI is definitely a new technology. It has immense power and capability to go through millions, if not billions, of data points and look for patterns that have traditionally not been baked into clinical training or clinical intuition, or were treated as edge cases. So when it comes to organizations experimenting with and adopting AI right now, the knee-jerk reaction or tendency is to try to take what they have already been doing, which is a lot of these deterministic models based on clinical intuition. They try to map that onto AI, almost trying to evolve these deterministic rule sets or workflows into the AI domain. And this is not a great strategy because, one, we're not really using the true power of AI, which can comb through a lot of data, find things, and handle a lot of complexity." #ZeOmega #PopulationHealth #HealthcareAI #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #OpioidCrisis #HealthEquity #Medicaid #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAnalytics #AIinHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation #HealthcareAI #RiskStratification #ValueBasedCare #HealthIT ZeOmega.com Listen to the podcast here

  2. 2d ago

    Improving Predictive Model Accuracy for Population Health Risk Scoring with Rakshith Yashvanth ZeOmega

    Rakshith Yashvanth, Senior Product Manager, Advanced Analytics & AI at ZeOmega, emphasizes that effective AI implementation in clinical settings requires comprehensive data across clinical, social, utilization, and behavioral elements, not cherry-picked variables. Real-world data indicates that traditional social determinants of health often miss critical behavioral patterns and healthcare engagement. Rakshith points out that AI must be positioned as a probabilistic tool that supports clinical decision-making rather than replacing clinical judgment, with a mechanism that lets clinicians provide feedback to improve model alignment with clinical reality.     Rakshith explains, "ZeOmega focuses more on the population health technology space. Our clients usually are risk-bearing organizations. We have health plans that cover a wide range of populations, including Medicaid, Medicare, commercial, ACOs, and other MSOs and similar entities. So we primarily focus on providing tools to these organizations so they can measure risk, manage risk, and manage their members' overall health and well-being."    "AI is definitely a new technology. It has immense power and capability to go through millions, if not billions, of data points and look for patterns that have traditionally not been baked into clinical training or clinical intuition, or were treated as edge cases. So when it comes to organizations experimenting with and adopting AI right now, the knee-jerk reaction or tendency is to try to take what they have already been doing, which is a lot of these deterministic models based on clinical intuition. They try to map that onto AI, almost trying to evolve these deterministic rule sets or workflows into the AI domain. And this is not a great strategy because, one, we're not really using the true power of AI, which can comb through a lot of data, find things, and handle a lot of complexity." #ZeOmega #PopulationHealth #HealthcareAI #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #OpioidCrisis #HealthEquity #Medicaid #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAnalytics #AIinHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation #HealthcareAI #RiskStratification #ValueBasedCare #HealthIT ZeOmega.com Download the transcript here

  3. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    Understanding the Neurological Source of Fibromyalgia Pain with Dr. Seth Lederman Tonix TRANSCRIPT

    Dr. Seth Lederman, CEO and Co-Founder of Tonix,  describes the company's focus on chronic, debilitating, and underserved medical conditions that have been overlooked.  Fibromyalgia, a common chronic pain condition, is a prime focus, and Seth explains how recognition of this neurological condition rooted in the central nervous system has evolved. Additional research is being conducted on a Lyme disease prophylactic, kidney transplant rejection prevention, and targeting depression by improving sleep quality. Seth explains, "The condition we were founded on, which we've worked on for more than 15 years since the company's founding, is fibromyalgia. It's a common chronic pain condition. One of the things I like about fibromyalgia is that it was a paradox described more than 50 years ago by the brilliant physician-scientist Harvey Moldofsky. He noted that if you speak to rheumatologists about fibromyalgia, half of them say they never see it, and the other half say it's one of the most common conditions they see and treat." "Fibromyalgia commonly affects women more than men. It's about two-thirds women by epidemiology, but in practice, in terms of the number of treated patients, it's more than 90% women. And no one understands why women are more sensitive or more susceptible to fibromyalgia than men, but it comes on. A typical patient is about 50 years old and has had it for about 10 years, but fibromyalgia is now recognized to affect people all the way back into pediatric populations and through the elderly." #TonixPharma #Fibromyalgia #LymeDisease #ChronicPain #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #MedEd #HealthcareInnovation #AutoimmuneDisease #ClinicalTrials tonixpharma.com  Listen to the podcast here

  4. 2d ago

    Understanding the Neurological Source of Fibromyalgia Pain with Dr. Seth Lederman Tonix

    Dr. Seth Lederman, CEO and Co-Founder of Tonix,  describes the company's focus on chronic, debilitating, and underserved medical conditions that have been overlooked.  Fibromyalgia, a common chronic pain condition, is a prime focus, and Seth explains how recognition of this neurological condition rooted in the central nervous system has evolved. Additional research is being conducted on a Lyme disease prophylactic, kidney transplant rejection prevention, and targeting depression by improving sleep quality. Seth explains, "The condition we were founded on, which we've worked on for more than 15 years since the company's founding, is fibromyalgia. It's a common chronic pain condition. One of the things I like about fibromyalgia is that it was a paradox described more than 50 years ago by the brilliant physician-scientist Harvey Moldofsky. He noted that if you speak to rheumatologists about fibromyalgia, half of them say they never see it, and the other half say it's one of the most common conditions they see and treat." "Fibromyalgia commonly affects women more than men. It's about two-thirds women by epidemiology, but in practice, in terms of the number of treated patients, it's more than 90% women. And no one understands why women are more sensitive or more susceptible to fibromyalgia than men, but it comes on. A typical patient is about 50 years old and has had it for about 10 years, but fibromyalgia is now recognized to affect people all the way back into pediatric populations and through the elderly." #TonixPharma #Fibromyalgia #LymeDisease #ChronicPain #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #MedEd #HealthcareInnovation #AutoimmuneDisease #ClinicalTrials tonixpharma.com Download the transcript here

  5. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    Ambient AI Transforming Clinical Documentation with Dr. Mike Han Ambience Healthcare TRANSCRIPT

    Dr. Mike Han, Chief Medical Officer at Ambience Healthcare, describes their AI-powered platform that, with consent, transcribes physician-patient conversations and then uses AI to create comprehensive documentation, including suggested diagnoses and coding recommendations.  By automating documentation and integrating into existing electronic health record systems, the platform enables clinicians to focus on the patient interaction rather than keyboard entry.  The technology targets multiple pain points simultaneously: coding accuracy, documentation of a patient visit, and patient engagement, while reducing downstream errors and payment delays.  Mike explains, "So Ambient Clinical Documentation is a tool that we provide to physicians and APPs. The physician or advanced practice practitioner asks the patient for consent to record the conversation. So the entire conversation is recorded and then transcribed. After it's transcribed, our artificial intelligence platform creates a progress note out of that transcription. Progress notes are broken into several different sections: a subjective section, which is the patient narrative, an objective section, which generally includes vital signs, physical examination, and labs, and then an assessment and plan."   "Furthermore, our tool also suggests diagnoses that the physician can select, as well as coding recommendations to help the physician identify a level of service or medical decision-making complexity surrounding the medical decision-making. And so it really does reduce the physician's cognitive burden during the visit. And what we've seen is that this tool allows the physician to focus on the patient as opposed to the keyboard or the monitor." #Ambience #AmbienceHealthcare #AmbientAI #ClinicalDocumentation #HealthcareAI #PhysicianBurnout #HealthIT #MedicalCoding #PatientCare #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #ClinicianExperience #PatientExperience ambiencehealthcare.com Listen to the podcast here

  6. 3d ago

    Ambient AI Transforming Clinical Documentation with Dr. Mike Han Ambience Healthcare

    Dr. Mike Han, Chief Medical Officer at Ambience Healthcare, describes their AI-powered platform that, with consent, transcribes physician-patient conversations and then uses AI to create comprehensive documentation, including suggested diagnoses and coding recommendations.  By automating documentation and integrating into existing electronic health record systems, the platform enables clinicians to focus on the patient interaction rather than keyboard entry.  The technology targets multiple pain points simultaneously: coding accuracy, documentation of a patient visit, and patient engagement, while reducing downstream errors and payment delays.  Mike explains, "So Ambient Clinical Documentation is a tool that we provide to physicians and APPs. The physician or advanced practice practitioner asks the patient for consent to record the conversation. So the entire conversation is recorded and then transcribed. After it's transcribed, our artificial intelligence platform creates a progress note out of that transcription. Progress notes are broken into several different sections: a subjective section, which is the patient narrative, an objective section, which generally includes vital signs, physical examination, and labs, and then an assessment and plan."   "Furthermore, our tool also suggests diagnoses that the physician can select, as well as coding recommendations to help the physician identify a level of service or medical decision-making complexity surrounding the medical decision-making. And so it really does reduce the physician's cognitive burden during the visit. And what we've seen is that this tool allows the physician to focus on the patient as opposed to the keyboard or the monitor." #Ambience #AmbienceHealthcare #AmbientAI #ClinicalDocumentation #HealthcareAI #PhysicianBurnout #HealthIT #MedicalCoding #PatientCare #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #ClinicianExperience #PatientExperience ambiencehealthcare.com Download the transcript here

  7. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    Improving Cognitive Endurance with Dr. Ramon Velazquez Mind Lab Pro TRANSCRIPT

    Dr. Ramon Velazquez, neuroscientist and Scientific Advisor at Mind Lab Pro, discusses the relevance of cognitive endurance to healthy aging and the need to maintain cognitive engagement.  Ramon addresses the dual challenge of modern life, where chronic stress and cognitive overstimulation can impair performance, while insufficient mental challenge also leads to decline. Topics include strategies for brain health, recent neuroscience advances in understanding how the brain can generate new neurons as we age, and the value of exercise, proper nutrition, and cognitive challenges.   Ramon explains, "So cognitive endurance, the way that I think about it, is really the ability to sustain, for example, attention, mental effort, effective thinking over really extended periods of time without a significant decline in performance. So what I think about as an analogy is, if you're an athlete and you are running a marathon, being able to keep up that pace requires endurance. And you can think about that when we're talking about cognitive endurance more in relation to what the brain needs to do in order to achieve that. And why is it becoming more and more important or relevant is the fact that we are starting to really identify ways in which you can improve your cognitive endurance through a variety of different lifestyle factors."   "We can measure this through exams given to an individual, but for the most part, it's really going to be self-report. How does an individual report how they feel after engaging in these mental effort activities? And again, there are various tasks individuals can do that tap into their ability to perform well on a variety of cognitive tasks. But cognitive endurance itself can be tricky to assess because it's going to be, as I mentioned, really self-report: how one feels after engaging in these types of specific mental activities." #MindLabPro #CognitiveEndurance #BrainHealth #HealthcareLeadership #ClinicalWellness #Nootropics #NeuroscienceInPractice #PhysicianWellbeing #MentalPerformance #PreventativeMedicine  mindlabpro.com Listen to the podcast here

  8. 3d ago

    Improving Cognitive Endurance with Dr. Ramon Velazquez Mind Lab Pro

    Dr. Ramon Velazquez, neuroscientist and Scientific Advisor at Mind Lab Pro, discusses the relevance of cognitive endurance to healthy aging and the need to maintain cognitive engagement.  Ramon addresses the dual challenge of modern life, where chronic stress and cognitive overstimulation can impair performance, while insufficient mental challenge also leads to decline. Topics include strategies for brain health, recent neuroscience advances in understanding how the brain can generate new neurons as we age, and the value of exercise, proper nutrition, and cognitive challenges.   Ramon explains, "So cognitive endurance, the way that I think about it, is really the ability to sustain, for example, attention, mental effort, effective thinking over really extended periods of time without a significant decline in performance. So what I think about as an analogy is, if you're an athlete and you are running a marathon, being able to keep up that pace requires endurance. And you can think about that when we're talking about cognitive endurance more in relation to what the brain needs to do in order to achieve that. And why is it becoming more and more important or relevant is the fact that we are starting to really identify ways in which you can improve your cognitive endurance through a variety of different lifestyle factors."   "We can measure this through exams given to an individual, but for the most part, it's really going to be self-report. How does an individual report how they feel after engaging in these mental effort activities? And again, there are various tasks individuals can do that tap into their ability to perform well on a variety of cognitive tasks. But cognitive endurance itself can be tricky to assess because it's going to be, as I mentioned, really self-report: how one feels after engaging in these types of specific mental activities." #MindLabPro #CognitiveEndurance #BrainHealth #HealthcareLeadership #ClinicalWellness #Nootropics #NeuroscienceInPractice #PhysicianWellbeing #MentalPerformance #PreventativeMedicine  mindlabpro.com Download the transcript here

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Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda is a window into the latest innovations in digital health, the changing dynamic between doctors and patients, and the emergence of precision medicine. The show covers such topics as aging in place, innovative uses for wearables and sensors, advances in clinical research, applied genetics, drug development, and challenges for connected health entrepreneurs.

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