The Doctor Weighs In Podcasts

Our guest today is Bob Dobbins, Vice President, New Business Development at Panasonic Corporation of North America. We will be talking to him today about Panasonic's upcoming Innovation HealthJam. The Innovation HealthJam is a completely virtual event that brings together a diverse and knowledgeable group of people from the healthcare and technology fields to brainstorm ideas, improvements and innovation in healthcare. The event is co-hosted by a group of healthcare industry leaders and led by Panasonic's Innovation Group. Sponsors include leading healthcare industry organizations: The American Medical Association The Center for Technology and Aging The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Personal Connected Health Alliancs (PCHA), a collaboration between Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit and HIMSS; along with technology providers Intel and Panasonic, and academic institutions UC Davis and UCSF There are eight focus areas for the Jam: Patient Engagement and Healthcare Design for Consumers Technology and Older Adults: The New Era of Connected Aging A Mobile Health Agenda for Transforming Healthcare Delivery Compute for Personalized Medicine: Finding the Cause and Cure through Genomics Telehealth and Telemedicine: Emerging Opportunities in Addressing the Triple Aim Your Physician of the Future Health Innovation for Vulnerable Populations - Worldwide Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Join us for an exciting discussion - Mr. Dobbins will be taking questions on air. This episode is sponsored by Panasonic USA.

AsthmaMD is a multi-tiered asthma management app that makes the traditionally written asthma action plan both mobile and easily accessible for the first time. The app is a helpful tool for tracking symptoms and preempting an attack. Additionally, the new AsthmaMD Peak Flow Meter allows asthma sufferers to accurately monitor their lung capacity and input those scores into the app - the best way for a patient to catch symptoms early.

Kelly Turner PhD is the New York Times bestselling author of "Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds." She is a researcher and lecturer in the field of Integrative Oncology. Her specialized research focus is on radical remission of cancer, which is when someone heals from cancer against all odds without the help, or despite the failure, of conventional treatments. On today's show, Dr. Kelly discusses what she learned from studying over 1,000 cases of radical remission, interviewing 100 cancer survivors, traveling to 10 countries and interviewing 50 alternative healers. What she learned will surprise and inspire you. Join us as we learn from Dr. Kelly, the nine most prevalent factors patients credited with helping them achieve radical remission. Dr. Turner holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Learn more a DrKellyTurner.com or RadicalRemission.com.

The Health Technology Forum is on an incredible growth trajectory. A few years ago, they were a Silicon Valley health tech meet-up. Now they have a national footprint with 4500 members and 13 chapters in 5 different countries: San Francisco, Dallas/FortWorth, San Diego, New York City, Atlanta, Washington DC, Austin, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Bangalore, and Manila. They have held close to 100 events world-wide, and some of them, like the upcoming Innovation Conference, have become “must attend” events in the health tech space.

Dr. Joshua Landy is an Internist and Critical Care Medicine Specialist as well as a co-founder of Figure 1. Prior to starting Figure 1, Landy was a visiting scholar at Stanford University where he researched online and multimedia-oriented approaches to health education. Landy’sunique perspective on healthcare is a result of his experiences in direct patient care, medical education research, and as the founder of a health-focused technology company.

Jared Heyman's sister went from a young healthy teen to someone who had to drop out of college because of depression and a fatigue so profound she could only watch TV or play solitaire. She would also wake up several times a night with nightmares and cold sweats. Eventually, she became suicidal. Over the course of 3 years, she saw 16 different medical specialists (all seen individually) racked up $100,000 in medical bills to no avail. They couldn’t figure it out. She was what you really don’t ever want to be – a tough case. Finally, the diagnosis was made. It had a rare disease that only affects 15,000 females. She was treated and is doing fine now, but her story inspired her brother to do something to help other people like her. Jared Heyman founded CrowdMed to crowdsource medical diagnoses. That’s right, he designed a platform to bring together people with difficult to diagnosis conditions with folks he calls Medical Detectives – people who want to help solve the puzzle. To read the full article, click here: http://www.thedoctorweighsin.com/tough-case-now-can-crowdsource-your-medical-diagnosis/

Can you really use games to increase your brain power? Every day we are bombarded with messages that suggest we can. AARP offers their members (all seniors) a discount on the Posit Science "brain fitness" program. Lumosity ads exhort us to "challenge your brain with scientifically designed training. According to their website, the program is designed by neuroscientists. A quick trip to Amazon yields dozens of books all claiming to help you increase your brain power. To explore what is fact and what is wishful thinking, Pat Salber, MD (@docweighsin) talks to Dov Michaeli, MD, PhD (@dovmichaeli) to get his perspective on increasing brain power. Can it be done? Do games work? If so any specific types of games? If not, what else can we do to maintain or regain lost functioning? This should be a fascinating discussion.

A new clinical study shows how intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) can reduce radiation side effects and may save breast cancer patients $10,500 annually.