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During the Drug Delivery Leader Live webcast, chief editor Tom von Gunden asked panelist Fran DeGrazio how dosing considerations drive the choice of injection devices and platforms. DeGrazio explained that dose volume, drug viscosity, and administration frequency are the primary levers when selecting between prefilled syringes, autoinjectors, or implantable systems. She used concrete examples to show that larger volumes often necessitate bigger syringes, while low‑viscosity formulations enable compact autoinjectors. The conversation highlighted the importance of aligning device selection with patient‑centric goals, manufacturing feasibility, and cost constraints.
During the Drug Delivery Leader Live event, Chief Editor Tom von Gunden prompted panelist Beate Bittner to discuss patient‑centric considerations as drug and delivery products transition to clinical trials. Bittner emphasized that leveraging established platforms and data from previous studies...
In a Drug Delivery Leader Live session, panelist Beate Bittner discussed early‑stage formulation decisions from a patient dosing perspective, comparing intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC) routes. She highlighted how drug stability, bioavailability, administration frequency, and patient convenience shape the choice...
In a candid Digital Health Unplugged interview, Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner recounts how a basement‑startup in 1979 grew into one of the United States’ largest private health‑IT firms, now serving roughly ten percent of acute NHS trusts. She...
Perseron Therapeutics announced a strategic shift from rare‑disease research to cancer immunotherapy, centering on its lead asset HMBBD2. The drug activates the newly identified Vista pathway, a departure from the PD‑1 axis that dominates current checkpoint inhibitors. The company reported that...
The Flourish episode features Paige Petri, a hospitality veteran, discussing how the core tenets of genuine care, anticipation, and experience design can transform health‑care delivery. Host Sarah Richardson frames the conversation around the idea that thriving people build thriving systems,...
In a recent webinar, Mark Graban and Dr. Greg Jacobson dissect why leaders often claim they lack time for continuous improvement and argue that the issue is a matter of priority, not capacity. Drawing on Lean principles and behavioral science,...
The video asks whether change can be managed well, and argues that success hinges on leadership and communication. It highlights that a visionary leader who articulates a compelling future can rally early adopters, while acknowledging that politics—both macro and micro—must be...
The video captures a group of construction workers visiting a four‑year‑old boy who is waiting for a life‑saving heart transplant, part of the #LoveYourHeart campaign. The crew entered the pediatric ward, introduced themselves, and spent several minutes playing games, reading...
The video centers on Arecor’s effort to develop an oral GLP‑1 formulation that overcomes the chronic low‑bioavailability problem plaguing peptide therapeutics, especially for obesity treatment. The CEO highlights that while more than a hundred peptide candidates are in development for...
The grand‑round presentation highlighted the VapeScan Study, a joint effort between Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Mailman School of Public Health and multiple clinical departments, designed to assess early cardiovascular and pulmonary effects of e‑cigarette use in young adults....
The interview introduces Rosterlab, a SaaS platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate and humanise the rostering of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals across hospitals. Daniel Ge explains that the tool is designed to balance service coverage with individual clinicians’...
During Digital Health Week in Christchurch, Douglas Healey, Manager of Hauora ICT at Te Whatu Ora, highlighted New Zealand’s fragmented oral‑health digital ecosystem and the urgent need for interoperable, co‑designed solutions. He outlined a nationwide project to capture dental encounter data,...
Debbie Hughes, CEO of the New Zealand Disability Support Network, highlighted during Digital Health Week 2025 that inclusive AI design benefits all users. She argued that co‑designing technology with disabled people ensures accessibility, usability, and broader societal impact. Hughes emphasized...
At Digital Health Week, Travis Heaven, founder of Duress.com, highlighted how visual deterrents embedded in wearable safety devices can reduce aggression by more than 50 percent. The company’s AI‑driven wearables monitor emotional cues and alert staff in real time, aiming...
During Digital Health Week 2025, Accenture’s New Zealand Health & Life Sciences lead Will Reedy explained how a Waikato team built a smart rostering app in just two weeks to address sudden industrial action. The solution replaced chaotic Excel spreadsheets with...
During Digital Health Week 2025, Sanja Sazdovska, State Advisor to North Macedonia’s Ministry of Health, detailed how the country digitised preventive healthcare to keep services accessible for women amid the COVID‑19 shutdown. By deploying a mobile‑first platform integrated with national...
During Digital Health Week 2025, Acting CIO Darren Douglass outlined Health New Zealand’s 10‑year Health Digital Investment Plan. He emphasized that while data volumes are growing, data quality remains a barrier, and that stabilising legacy systems is as vital as...
Emeline Ramos, physician executive for InterSystems Asia‑Pacific, highlighted the deployment of a generative‑AI‑enabled electronic health record across eight Jakarta hospitals during Digital Health Week 2025. Clinicians are using the system as a conversational assistant, demanding instant, actionable answers rather than...
At Digital Health Week in Christchurch, Health Informatics New Zealand featured Malik Rizwan, Executive Lead for Virtual Care Strategy at Valentia Technologies, discussing his patient‑centric approach to digital health. Rizwan emphasized building the user experience first and then aligning technology...
At Digital Health Week 2025 in Christchurch, Dr Jane George, a rural health workforce strategist, argued that designing health services for the least‑served amplifies benefits for everyone. She highlighted how digital tools can knit together dispersed rural teams, but warned that...
Hon. Tracey Martin, chief executive of the Aged Care Association NZ, addressed Digital Health Week in Christchurch about the urgent need for technology that saves time in residential aged care. She highlighted the pressure on facilities, the necessity of shaping...
Day 2 of MedTech World Middle East Dubai 2026 highlighted the convergence of public‑health agencies, academic institutions, med‑tech startups, venture capitalists and funders, underscoring the collaborative ecosystem needed to drive innovation. The event’s relatively small size fostered repeated, informal networking, allowing participants...
Dr. Maie St. John, professor and director of otolaryngology‑head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins, recounts how a childhood encounter with a facial tumor set her on a path to become a head‑neck cancer surgeon. She describes a recent case of...
Dr Tedros addressed the World Forum, reminding listeners that the recent Munich Security Conference highlighted a paradox: while nations ramp up defense spending, they overlook an "invisible enemy"—global pandemics. He quantified COVID‑19’s devastation, noting roughly 20 million deaths and a $10 trillion...
The Health Affairs podcast aired on February 13, 2026, unpacked a sweeping 577‑page proposed rule that would reshape the Affordable Care Act for the 2027 coverage year. Released unusually late in the rule‑making cycle, the proposal gives stakeholders just weeks...
Jared Bauer, co‑founder and CEO of Seek Labs, detailed his experience turning around biotech firms and launching an integrated AI‑diagnostic and CRISPR‑therapeutics platform for infectious diseases. He highlighted a proof‑of‑concept study against African Swine Fever that markedly reduced viremia in...
The video reviews a recent Physiology & Behavior paper that compared identical 30‑minute basketball sessions performed indoors and outdoors by 45 British adolescents aged 11‑13. Using a randomized crossover design, each participant served as his or her own control, allowing...
NEJM This Week (Feb 12 2026) highlights several pivotal studies, including promising phase‑III results for novel IgA nephropathy therapies and updated antithrombotic regimens after coronary stenting. Researchers identified the specific antigen driving rare vaccine‑associated clotting syndromes, while a case report underscored the...
International Childhood Cancer Day highlights that early detection and treatment can enable more than 80% of children with cancer to survive. The video, narrated by a physician‑mother, underscores that while childhood cancer remains rare, the most common forms—leukemia, brain tumors,...
The presentation explored the role of spirituality in cancer survivorship, beginning with a grounding exercise that invited participants to focus on sight or sound. The speakers defined spirituality as a dynamic search for meaning, purpose, and connection, contrasting it with...
The video discusses the first prospective trial of pulsed‑field ablation (PFA) applied to ventricular tachycardia (VT), a technique previously limited to atrial procedures. Published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, the study marks a milestone in expanding PFA to the ventricle. Results...
The ACTIVE study examined whether a brief cognitive speed‑training regimen can lower the incidence of dementia among older adults. Using Medicare claims data, participants who completed an hour‑long exercise twice a week for six weeks showed a 25 % reduction in dementia...
The MedTech World Middle East 2026 kicked off in Dubai with a vibrant Day 1 recap that underscored the event’s role as a catalyst for innovation and cross‑border collaboration across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) health‑care ecosystem. Organisers highlighted how informal...
The Health Affairs interview dissects the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines, which notably prioritize protein, tighten language around ultra‑processed foods, and soften alcohol recommendations. Host Jeff Buyers and registered dietitian Jenny Low examine how these shifts diverge from previous guidance and...
The talk introduced a sweeping vision for AI alignment in medicine, emphasizing that today’s health‑care ecosystem is rapidly filling with autonomous agents—clinical decision‑support bots, patient‑facing assistants, insurance claim processors, and emerging regulatory AIs. Dr. Hassoon framed this proliferation as an...
Life sciences consulting sits at the crossroads of scientific innovation, commercial strategy, and healthcare delivery, as highlighted in a 2026 panel featuring leaders from Guidehouse, Clarkston Consulting, ClearView Healthcare Partners, and Roland Berger. The discussion identified key trends such as...
The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Work Group, co‑chaired by Kevin Day and Mel Sullies, is tackling the growing complexity of health‑data privacy. Their focus is on two pillars: computable consent—translating legal and patient‑specified permissions into machine‑readable rules—and data segmentation,...
US Surgical’s 1990s laparoscopic revolution was ignited when senior director Lee Cohen uncovered an illegal off‑label experiment and convinced CEO Leon Hirsch to stake the entire company on the technology. The bold "Green Beret" sales force trained roughly 40,000 surgeons,...
The video examines the growing trend of Americans smoking fentanyl instead of injecting it, and how harm‑reduction organizations are deliberately supplying glass pipes to facilitate that shift. Reporters Lev Facher and a STAT addiction reporter tour a distribution warehouse and...
Hospital glucose management is far riskier than outpatient care, as the video explains. Inpatients encounter multiple variables—steroids, fasting for procedures, and carbohydrate‑controlled meals—that can destabilize blood sugar levels. These factors, combined with sedating pain medications, create a volatile environment for...
The video explains why a major health system abruptly shut down its Epic electronic‑health‑record platform at 10 a.m., treating the event as an unannounced emergency drill rather than a routine maintenance window. Operators triggered a full emergency operations plan, opened a command...
Dr. Sherita Golden, an expert in hospital-based diabetes care, warns that inpatient glucose management is uniquely high-risk due to acute illnesses, hospital-driven treatment changes (steroids, fasting, altered diets), and insulin’s potential to cause rapid hypoglycemia. Errors most commonly occur at...
The video, part of NYU Langone Health’s "Cooking for Wellness" series, showcases a heart‑healthy Japanese curry prepared during National Heart Health Month. Chief cardiac surgeon Dr. Norrisugu Nito joins host to demonstrate ingredient swaps that align with cardiovascular nutrition guidelines. Key...
The video highlights Alabama’s acute shortage of obstetric‑gynecologists in many rural counties and the state’s experimental response: deploying robotic ultrasound systems to scan pregnant patients remotely. Ultrasound imaging is vital for high‑risk pregnancies—cervical‑length measurement, fetal growth monitoring, and still‑birth prevention—but traditional...
The podcast 'Exploring the interoperability conundrum' examines whether the NHS's shift from analog to digital, as outlined in its 10‑year health plan, is sufficient to create a truly interoperable, data‑driven system. The guests argue that sheer volume of digital records does...
The video introduces acoustic robotics, where tiny polymer devices are powered solely by ultrasound‑induced bubble dynamics, eliminating wires, batteries, or magnets and opening the door to fully wireless medical microrobots. A thin polymer sheet is laser‑molded with thousands of sub‑millimetre cavities...
In this Healthcare IT interview, PointClickCare’s Director of Product Management Schweda Shambog discusses how timely, actionable data is reshaping post‑acute care. She explains the company’s evolution from a skilled‑nursing‑focused EHR to a platform that bridges acute and post‑acute settings, emphasizing...
Dr. Nakul S. Talathi, also introduced as Nick Totti, is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine, specializing in hip, spine, and trauma care for children, adolescents, and young adults. He stresses a listening‑first philosophy, collaborates closely with families to...
The video examines Vitestro’s robotic blood‑drawing system, which uses ultrasound to locate a vein, positions the arm, inserts the needle, collects the sample, retracts the needle and applies a bandage—all without human hands touching the needle. The device already carries...
