Tech Tonics
Tech Tonics started 2015 with a goal of featuring the people and passion at the intersection of technology and health. We had 24 great shows featuring the perspectives of consumers and physicians,...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Martin Kelly, Conductor of a Global Orchestra of Entrepreneurship
One of the most significant challenges faced by the healthcare community is that the biggest companies want to innovate but can’t get out of their own way, while the smallest companies want to have an...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social Media
For years, medical research seemed focused on understanding disease processes primarily through model organisms such as yeast, flies, and mice. Today’s guest, Merck’s Robert Plenge, offers the radical...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Jim Joyce, A Man of Genius Makes No Mistakes
James Joyce, the famous Irish author once said, “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portraits of discovery.” His namesake, entrepreneur Jim Joyce, could not agree...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed
So much emphasis has been placed on fitness and wearables over the last five years and much has been made of whether these trackers can translate to better health or are just there to make people feel...
View ArticleTech Tonics: When Companies Go Awry
The success of Silicon Valley is often attributed to the ability of the entrepreneurial community to embrace setbacks rather than punishing those who experience them. Celebrating these setbacks has...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Our Favorite Bioethicist, Michelle Meyer
Emerging technologies bring not just profound opportunities but also vexing ethical dilemmas, involving issues such as privacy, consent, and access. Today’s guest, Michelle Meyer, is a bioethicist and...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s Adults
While determining what to do with college and her career, Jessica Rousset struggled to decide – go with the right brain and be an artist or go with the left brain and pursue engineering. In a way she...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Dorit Donoviel, To Infinity and Beyond
A self-described geek, Dorit Donoviel was happily pursuing a career in molecular biology until a chance encountered diverted her course to space medicine. Today, Dorit directs the Biomedical...
View ArticleBusiness Group on Health: The American Medical Association’s Commitment to...
Racism and other systemic inequities lead to poor health outcomes for racial minority groups, says the president of the American Medical Association in our latest podcast. Dr. Susan Bailey, in...
View ArticleMachine Vision Around the World – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 242
In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Accubits’s Shameer Thaha joins host Jake Smith to talk about machine vision and predictive analytics. Shameer explains the use cases for the...
View ArticleHow Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care – Conversations in the...
David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and...
View ArticleWhat We Know About Long Covid
For people recovering from COVID-19, the journey back to health and well-being can be a long and winding road. Some suffer from crippling fatigue; others experience brain fog; and still others can’t...
View ArticleIntegrating Virtual Health into the Broader Care Continuum
In-person care, telehealth, and apps, oh my! With so many care delivery choices available to patients, when does it make sense to engage virtually and when is it best to leave the screen behind? In our...
View ArticleVirtual Reality – The Next Frontier in Health Care
What do mitigating pain, overcoming phobias, changing harmful behaviors and calming anxiety have in common? They’re all addressed through virtual reality. In this episode of the Business Group on...
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