HiNZ 2025: Will Reedy - NZ Health & Life Sciences Lead, Accenture
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 a hospital‑wide digital platform that streamlines staff planning and improves equity. The rapid delivery earned an award and is being positioned for rollout across New Zealand’s health system. The discussion was recorded as part of HiNZ’s Digital Health Week playlist and the Talking HealthTech Podcast.
HiNZ 2025: Sanja Sazdovska - State Advisor, Ministry of Health, North Macedonia
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...
HiNZ 2025: Darren Douglass - Chief Information Technology Officer, Health New Zealand
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...
HiNZ 2025: Emeline Ramos - Physician Executive, InterSystems
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...
HiNZ 2025: Malik Rizwan - Executive Lead (Virtual Care Strategy), Valentia Technologies
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...
HiNZ 2025: Dr Jane George - Rural Health Workforce Strategist
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...
HiNZ 2025: Hon. Tracey Martin - Chief Executive, Aged Care Association NZ
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 Highlights | MedTech World Middle East Dubai 2026
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...
Company Turnarounds And AI For Infectious Diseases With Seek Labs' Jared Bauer
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...
NEJM This Week — February 12, 2026
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...
Pulsed Field Ablation Shows Early Promise for VT Treatment
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...
MedTech World Middle East 2026 | Day 1 Recap | Dubai
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...
Guidance From The Sequoia Project on Computable Consent and Privacy
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 $1 Billion Lesson and the Laparoscopic Revolution of the 90s
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,...
Flourish Sound Bytes: The Surprising Challenges of Diabetes Care with Sherita Golden
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...
These Aren't the Ob/Gyn Droids We're Looking For
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...
Should You Buy an Apple Watch or an Oura Ring? ⌚️💍
The video pits Apple’s flagship smartwatch against the Oura Ring, asking which device delivers the best value for health‑focused consumers. The creator, who wears both simultaneously, frames the decision around functionality, battery life, and cost, noting that an ideal scenario...
Exploring the Interoperability Conundrum
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...
Tiny Robot Fish Could Swim Through the Body Powered by Ultrasound
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...
Data That's Timely and Insightful From PointClickCare
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...
What Really Happens When a Robot Draws Your Blood?
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...
IROS 2025 Keynotes - Medical Robots: Li Zhang
Li Zhang’s IROS 2025 keynote highlighted the rapid evolution of miniature biomedical robots, emphasizing magnetic actuation, bio‑hybrid materials, and modular architectures for safe, targeted therapy. He traced the concept back to Richard Feynman’s swallowable‑surgery vision and described how his team fabricates...
US Surgical’s Founding History: How Leon Hirsch Built Medicine’s Most Infamous Device Company Now!
US Surgical, founded by high‑school dropout Leon C. Hirsch, transformed a niche Russian surgical device into a 90% market monopoly that defined modern minimally invasive surgery. Hirsch risked his life savings, built the aggressive "Organ Grinder" sales training, and deployed...
How NextGen Healthcare's Ambient AI Helped Two Clinics Break the Cycle of Pajama Time
At the 2025 NextGen User Group meeting, leaders from two Kentucky federally qualified health centers — Juniper Health and White House Clinics — described how NextGen’s Ambient Assist AI scribe sharply cut after-hours “pajama time,” reduced clinician burnout, and improved...
The Medical Futurist’s 100 Digital Health And AI Companies Of 2026
The Medical Futurist released its annual “100 Digital Health and AI Companies of 2026” list, a curated snapshot of the most promising players in a field crowded with hype. Since 2017 the list has served as a neutral benchmark, with...
Clinicians Must Decide Now… but SEP-1 Compliance Is Judged After Discharge.
CMS has shifted SEP-1 sepsis bundle performance from a reporting requirement into value-based purchasing, exposing hospitals to payments or penalties based on compliance. National SEP-1 compliance averages roughly 65%, but clinicians face a crucial timing mismatch: they must decide in...
Why Integrated Technology Matters in Outpatient Surgery
The video spotlights why integrated technology is essential for outpatient surgery, drawing on the speaker’s experience as a physician, investor, and policy‑tech analyst. He observes a fragmented landscape where rising costs and misaligned incentives between volume and value hinder patient...
MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific 2025 Recap
The MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific 2025 recap showcases a rigorous selection funnel that began with more than 550 applications, narrowed to 60 startups that pitched before a panel of over 80 judges, and ultimately identified 20 companies to join the...
Newsday: CxOs Being Ignored: Why Speaking Tech Instead of Business Fails in 2026
Speakers review JP Morgan decks and recent industry conversations to argue that health IT leaders in 2026 are being asked to drive business outcomes — reduce friction, improve margins and enable growth — rather than merely manage technology. A major...
NHS Open Source Policies - All Quietly Removed… Part 2
The video revisits the sudden disappearance of NHS England’s open‑source policy pages, confirming that the removal was intentional rather than an accidental outage. NHS England told Digital Health News it was part of a broader web‑refresh and that the organization...
Where Are All The NHS Tech Nerds? - with Kevin Monk of SARD-JV
In this episode of Everything Digital Health, host Marcus Bore sits down with Kevin Monk, CEO of SARD‑JV—a joint venture between his software firm and an NHS trust—to discuss the chronic shortage of technically skilled staff within the National Health...
Payments, Pain, and Pragmatic AI in Clinical Trials - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 47
Ledger Run CEO John Chanichi describes his journey from engineering and consulting to building a business platform that streamlines clinical-trial operations, with a particular focus on participant payments, study logistics and data workflows. Ledger Run targets biopharma sponsors and CROs...