We are handing over to the incredible Dr Annabelle Painter for the brand new seasons of the podcast (Digital Health Section Podcast - Royal Society of Medicine). Thank you to all our 2020-2023 guests for a wonderful 3 seasons ..read more

In this episode we speak with Justin Hayde-West, UK Pharmaceutical Manager at Bupa. We talk about the future of digitally enhanced medicines, digital therapeutics and how data can be used to drive improvements in patient care. We also discuss the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer's Clinical Fellow Scheme, and the importance of promoting innovation and leadership from within the UK healthcare system! Find out more about the RSM digital council: https://rsm.ac/dhsection. Follow us: #RSMdigihealth ..read more

Dr Ben Maruthappu MBE is CEO at Cera, Co-founder & Board Member of the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Board Member in the NHS Imperial College Trust. He was the NHS England's Innovation Advisor and we discuss why technology is crucial for the future of the health and care sector. Find out more about the RSM digital council: https://rsm.ac/dhsection. Follow us: #RSMdigihealth ..read more

Dr Edward Korot, a Clinical Specialist at Google Health, recently gave a talk for the RSM Digital Health Council event on "Automated code-free machine learning framework for ophthalmic image analysis". Dr Korot is also a Clinical Research Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital and recently co-authored a paper asking "Will AI replace Ophthalmologists?". We discuss how AI can optimise the time a clinican spends with a patient, and how machine learning can improve the way Ophthalmology is practiced. Find out more about the RSM digital council: https://rsm.ac/dhsection. Follow us: #RSMdigihealth ..read more

Dr Nicola Stingelin is an independent ethics advisor and previous global head of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Stingelin holds a PhD in medical ethics and an MBA. She discusses the key questions about the ethics of utilising healthcare data. Dr Stingelin spoke at the RSM's 'Big Data, Big Change' event 2020 ..read more

In this episode we spoke with Dr Christian Guttmann who was named one of  the Top 100 AI leaders in the World.  We spoke about how AI is the future for healthcare and how data will revolutionise the way we treat patients. Dr Christian Guttmann spoke at 'Recent Developments in AI and Digital Health 2020'. Find out more about the RSM digital council: https://rsm.ac/dhsection Follow us: #RSMdigihealth ..read more

Special Edition of our podcast series - a conversation recorded remotely during COVID-19 lockdown. I speak with 2 key digital health leaders who have been following the #rsmdigihealth threads online during the pandemic. Dr Sam Shah has worked for many years at NHS England and was Director of Digital Development at NHSX until recently. Sam is now a digital health advisor and working frontline as a clinician during the pandemic. We are also joined by Stephen Bourke who is a founder of Echo, the NHS pharmacy app that delivers medications to your door and Stephen is also a NHS Innovation Accelerat ..read more

Right now the world is ramping up its resources to tackle the coronavirus (Covid19) pandemic. Health professionals globally are turning to digital health to offer agile solutions to patient assessment, monitoring and treatment. We spoke with Dr Naomi Lee a few weeks ago at 'Revent Developments in AI and Digital Health 2020' about the need for evaluation of healthcare technologies to ensure public trust. Dr Lee is Head of Research at the Lancet and Vice Chair of the WHO focus group on AI Health. We launch today's episode in a time when clinical practice is rapidly changing in response to the pa ..read more

In this episode we speak with Dr Bob Klaber- Director of Strategy, Research and Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Dr Klaber is a consultant paediatrician and discusses with us what the future of digital health could look like in paediatrics. We discuss how integrated care and prevention is key in digital health success. Dr Klaber spoke at the RSM's 'Big Data, Big Change' event 2020. Find out more about the RSM digital council: https://rsm.ac/dhsection Follow us: #RSMdigihealth ..read more

In this episode we talk with Dr Liz O'Riordan (@Liz_ORiordan) who is a consultant breast surgeon and expert patient after being diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in 2015. She is now an expert advisor for digital healthcare and we caught up with her following her talk at the 'Recent Developments in AI & Digital Health 2020' RSM event. We speak in today's podcast about her experience in digital health as a patient and the struggle to access her own data. We discuss how we can disseminate the latest digital health to patients and how currently patients seek this information out through for ..read more