Impulse is the podcast where we dive into the most exciting breakthroughs in healthcare of our time. In each episode, we sit down with some of the brightest minds who are using technology to rethink the way we care!
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#47 - Pushing responsible AI in health - Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite - HealthAI
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52:03How can we solve the puzzle of regulating AI in healthcare? This is the question that Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite and his team at HealthAI - The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health ask themselves every day. Their goal? To help international organizations, governments, and local stakeholders strike a balance between regulation and access to th…
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[SNIPPET] - Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite on blind spots in health systems
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#46 - Rethinking the stethoscope and its use - Diana van Stijn - Lapsi Health
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46:45When we think of the term "medicine," one of the symbols that comes to mind is the stethoscope. Its use in almost every physical examination by healthcare providers makes it one of the most iconic and widely recognized medical devices. Despite the emergence of digital technologies and the first electronic stethoscopes, their operating principle and…
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[SNIPPET] - Diana van Stijn on the magic of body sounds
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#45 - Measuring oxygen with a smart earring - Shavini Fernando - OxiWear
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52:38Do you have to come close to death to invent a groundbreaking medical device? That’s certainly not something we would wish upon every medtech entrepreneur. But it is the story of Shavini Fernando and the connected earring OxiWear that she developed. Shavini lives with Eisenmenger syndrome, a condition where the two ventricles of her heart communica…
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[SNIPPET] - Shavini Fernando on designing smart wearables right
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#44 - Predicting cancer treatment response - Andre Esteva - Artera
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42:55One of the greatest fantasies in medicine is to one day be able to offer any patient a therapy perfectly adapted to their profile and needs. A "personalized" medicine. The term was introduced to the public in 1999 through an article in The Wall Street Journal titled "New Era of Personalized Medicine: Targeting Drugs for Each Unique Genetic Profile.…
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[SNIPPET] - Andre Esteva on the relevance of AI for clinical decision-making
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#43 - Rethinking medical prescriptions to save lives - Emmanuel Bilbault - Posos
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51:05According to the WHO, unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of avoidable harm in health systems across the globe. In the European Union alone, this translates to nearly 200,000 deaths annually. The magnitude of this problem has led to global initiatives such as "Medication Without Harm," launched in 2017, aiming to r…
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[SNIPPET] - Emmanuel Bilbault on the complexity of modern medication prescribing
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#42 - Extending reality to transform surgery - George Papagiannakis - ORamaVR
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41:50What will the future of surgery look like? According to Dr. George Papagiannakis, we must count on virtual simulation. After all, simulators are an integral part of professional training in highly demanding fields like aviation or F1. So why not medicine? The approach might seem futuristic, but George and his team at ORamaVR share a vision that mak…
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[SNIPPET] - George Papagiannakis on reaching proficiency in medicine with virtual reality
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#41 - Making sense of the gut microbiome - Leo Grady - Jona
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47:19Our gut contains a world of microorganisms that impact many aspects of our health, well beyond the gastrointestinal system. In fact, more than 30 trillion bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses live in the digestive tract of every human, a number that is higher than the number of human cells that make up our body! Each microbiome is unique to an ind…
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[SNIPPET] - Leo Grady on why understanding the microbiome is an AI problem
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#40 - Cracking biology through AI - Jean-Philippe Vert - Owkin
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51:44All experts agree: if there's one sector that AI will transform, it's healthcare. Whether it's understanding pathologies, developing personalized treatments, the doctor-patient relationship, diagnostic methods, or creating tools to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals, everything is affected by the ongoing transformation! This revolution…
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[SNIPPET] - Jean-Philippe Vert on what AI changes for healthcare
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#39 - Crafting the best connected health experience - Matthieu Menanteau - Withings
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52:30Among pioneering companies in connected health devices, few have been as forward-thinking as Withings, a flagship of French technology. Their first connected scales date back to 2009 (when smartphones were still emerging!) and remain the industry standard today. For that time, it was a subtle blend combining sleek design, intuitive user experience,…
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[SNIPPET] - Matthieu Menanteau on the three pillars of a Withings product
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#38 - Rethinking medical biology with AI - Alexandre Guenoun - Kiro
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49:20Medical biology and laboratories play an essential role in any health system. No wonder 70 to 80% of all medical decisions are based on laboratory test results. But even within the most advanced healthcare systems, the communication and analysis of lab data remain archaic. Processing times can be lengthy, even after the analysis is completed. Resul…
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[SNIPPET] - Alexandre Guenoun on rethinking the clinical biology experience
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#37 - Hacking the dopamine system for good - Tryggvi Thorgeirsson - Sidekick Health
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44:20Can the attention economy be harnessed to serve health? Paradoxical as it may seem, this is the thesis of Tryggvi Thorgeirsson and his team at Sidekick Health. As a medical doctor trained in Iceland in the 2000s, Tryggvi experienced rural medicine firsthand and what working as a general practitioner in a remote setting means. And he quickly found h…
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[SNIPPET] - Tryggvi Thorgeirsson on human decision-making and how it can drive healthy behaviors
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#36 - Turning healthcare preventive with full-body MRI scans - Andrew Lacy - Prenuvo
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47:45Making healthcare preventive and better able to catch serious conditions earlier is a recurring topic for governments, health systems, and ultimately patients. As healthcare resources become scarce while chronic conditions and their burden on society grow larger, a preventive and more proactive approach to healthcare is undoubtedly part of the solu…
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[SNIPPET] - Andrew Lacy on the complexity of measuring the benefits of full-body MRI scans for health systems
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#35 - Making surgery smarter and safer - Björn Von Siemens - Caresyntax
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55:47Modernizing surgery by making it smarter, safer, and more predictive. This is the mission of Björn Von Siemens and his team at Caresyntax. By developing a platform that integrates into hospitals’ infrastructures and leveraging their data flows throughout the planning, execution, and follow-up of surgeries, the company has established itself as a le…
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[SNIPPET] - Björn Von Siemens on providing modern tools for surgery
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#34 - Uniting to bring medical technology forward - Dylan Attard - MedTech World
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41:21Leaving your surgical training to create a healthcare conference from scratch... ...On an island of 300 km² in the middle of the Mediterranean! This is the crazy bet that Dylan Attard took 5 years ago by founding MedTech World. From its first online conference held in 2020 in the midst of COVID-19 to its early roadshows around the world two years l…
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[SNIPPET] - Dylan Attard on making a successful healthcare conference
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#33 - Building the next TechBio venture - Mati Gill - AION Labs
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53:16AI and computational science are revolutionizing the biotechnology sector. From identifying new therapeutic approaches to their production and accelerating the administrative processes for bringing them to market, the entire value chain of this sector is impacted! These recent advancements have given rise to a new field in the industry: TechBio. Bu…
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[SNIPPET] - Mati Gill on identifying key challenges in biotechnology
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#32 - Accelerating radiology with AI - Amine Korchi - Radiologist
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54:48Radiology is the field of medicine that has experienced some of the most dramatic technological changes over the past decades. And given the record number of approvals for AI-based and machine-learning tools dedicated to radiology in Europe and the US (far ahead of all other medical specialties combined!), this trend is unlikely to slow down. Such …
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[SNIPPET] - Amine Korchi on the power of multimodal AI in medicine
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#31 - Measuring sleep remotely - Soumya Dash - Sleepiz
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54:51Sleep is the resting state that nature has chosen for us by default. Long overlooked or even neglected, it is one of the keys to good health, alongside nutrition, physical exercise, and mental and emotional health. Moreover, it is an excellent indicator of our overall health: when our sleep is disturbed, it usually means at least one of these four …
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[SNIPPET] - Soumya Dash on consumer versus medical grade products
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#30 - Building the Shopify of digital health - Dan Vahdat - Huma
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48:43Dan Vahdat is an emblematic figure and entrepreneur in healthtech. A visionary we could say, having anticipated the problem of point solutions in the industry, while predicting the essential role smartphones would have in empowering patients to take control of their health. The company he founded after pausing his PhD, Huma, has pioneered the field…
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[SNIPPET] - Dan Vahdat on enabling digital health programs at scale
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#29 - Fighting atherosclerosis with cavitation - Scott Nelson - FastWave Medical
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47:03Scott Nelson is a true authority in the Medtech field. A serial entrepreneur, investor, and early podcaster with Medsider, he currently leads FastWave Medical, a startup developing a method to combat atherosclerosis, specifically the rigid plaques formed by significant calcium deposits in blood vessels. The principle behind this technology is cavit…
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[SNIPPET] - Scott Nelson on proposing new tools for cardiac surgery
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#28 - Modeling embryos to understand early life - Jacob Hanna - Weizmann Institute of Science
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48:16Because of ethical and medical challenges, early human embryo development remains “a black box” to us, as Prof. Jacob Hanna himself puts it. Despite all the progress made in medicine over the past decades, there is still a whole lot to learn about the causes of miscarriages, infertility, or early developmental defects. In 2023, Jacob’s group from t…
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[SNIPPET] - Jacob Hanna on the ethical implications of human embryo models
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#27 - Reinventing neuroelectronic therapies - Carolina Aguilar - Inbrain Neuroelectronics
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45:12We are at a turning point for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurotechnology. We have all witnessed phenomenal progress in this field recently via images shared by Neuralink, showing paralyzed patients who can communicate with a computer through their own thoughts. Other fascinating applications, such as those being worked on by Gregoire Cour…
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[SNIPPET] - Carolina Aguilar on the future of neurotechnology
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#26 - Redefining allergy care - Kenneth Chahine - Nectar Life Sciences
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45:40Many of us struggle with allergies, usually something we’ve been dealing with our whole life, either continuously or episodically. Be it related to food, pollen, dust, pets, or many others, it’s quite a pain and it can take us away from many things we appreciate in life. And I deliberately include myself in this group. Somehow it was engraved in my…
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[SNIPPET] - Kenneth Chahine on being dogmatic about improving allergy care
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#25 - Stopping a bleed in three seconds - Joe Landolina - Cresilon
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45:27We don’t need to look far in the daily news to understand the stakes and the importance of having efficient solutions to control and stop bleeding. In the times we live in, where the world is crippled by a series of humanitarian catastrophes (some of natural origin, some of human origin), technological wonders from the medical field make me truly h…
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[SNIPPET] - Joe Landolina on the criticality of rapid bleeding control in medicine
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#24 - Reimagining male contraception - L.R. Fox - NEXT Life Sciences
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49:46How would the world look like if men had the most efficient and reversible means of birth control? The outstanding work that L.R. Fox and his team at NEXT Life Sciences are leading might bring a very tangible answer to this question. Based on the pioneering work from Prof. Sujoy K. Guha and The Parsemus Foundation, they are developing one of the mo…
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[SNIPPET] - L.R. Fox on the next generation of male contraceptives
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#23 - Disrupting the smart wearables industry - Leo Grünstein - Spiden
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49:08Wearables are a form of technology that has rapidly become a part of our lives over the past 15 years, with the introduction of devices from Fitbit, Apple, Samsung, and others to the market. Initially informing us about our heart rate and daily step count, they have evolved to incorporate increasingly sophisticated features, allowing us to track ou…
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[SNIPPET] - Leo Grünstein on the future of smart wearables
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