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Trends in Med Tech
by Dorian Murariu
Each week we interview a company founders, medical researchers, physicians or other healthcare industry experts and hear them talk about the challenges of treating patients in the area of their expertise. We'll also hear about gaps in treatment options, and how cutting-edge research is aiming to fill those gaps, both in the short term and in the far future. Then, we talk to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other investors who are paving the way for a new generation of therapies, and who are looking to develop and commercialize solutions to fill those gaps.
Episodes
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IRegained is Transforming Post-Stroke Care with its Innovative MyHand Rehabilitative Device
IRegained is startup and social impact venture with a vision of helping patients regain their hand function after a stroke. Their innovative device called MyHand leverages the principles of neuroplasticity by guiding patients through a series of highly personalized hand exercises that gradually...
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Tamvoes: Empowering individuals with their information and professionals with client management
*** if you enjoy these talks, learn something from them, want to see more, be sure to subscribe 🎬🔔✨❗️🎬 🔔✨❗️ *** In this episode we’re joined by Rukia Mire, Madison (Maddy) McBay and Jessica Lunshoff of Tamvoes, a digital health platform empowering individuals with their information and...
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Tali AI: The information retrieval virtual assistant for providers | Co-Founder,CEO Mahshid Yassaei
In this episode we spoke with Mahshid Yassaei about Tali, an innovative NLP-based information retrieval algorithm that is built for purpose to help clinicians at the point of care. Prior to Tali, Mahshid also co-founded Evenset, a custom medical and healthcare software development company focused...
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YourCoach.Health : Universal Platform for Health & Wellness Coaches | COO Eugene Borukhovich
Wouldn’t it be great to have a team of coaches to help you through your day-to-day life? Realizing that people have complex and ever-changing health needs – something that healthcare systems are not well equipped to handle - YourCoach has set out to enable people to improve their health and...
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Open Orphan: Global Leader in Human Challenge Vaccine Development | Executive Chairman Cathal Friel
Open Orphan is paving the way for the large-scale adoption of “human challenge studies” for vaccine development. Although this unique study design has been around for over 40 years and has been used to test a variety of vaccines and anti-virals for disease such as, cholera, influenza, asthma and...
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MyelinH & MyelinS: the Brain-Computer Interface Companies Disrupting the Health & Space Tech Sectors
Zied Tayeb, CEO and Samaher Garbaya, COO co-founded two award-winning startups that are poised to bring impactful innovation in both health-tech (Myelin-H) and space tech (Myelin-S). Their mission statements are: 🏥 🧠 Myelin-H: to allow clinicians to remotely diagnose and monitor the health...
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Caravan Health, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with a Proven Model | with CEO Tim Gronniger
On this podcast we are always looking for innovative technologies and services that address unmet need in healthcare, expand access to essential and effective healthcare and improve outcomes for both patients and providers. So, we were excited at the opportunity to speak with Tim from Caravan...
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The Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA): From Principles to Practice | with ED Megan Coder
Digital therapeautics (DTx) are clinical intervention delivered as software that can help with medical ailments as wide ranging as asthma, epilepsy, IBS, depression, diabetes, arthritis, among many other conditions. Why do we bring this up now? A handful of DTx companies have been around for…
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The New Path to Cardiovascular Fitness & Overall Health – PAI Health | Sally Powell & Dr. Carl Lavie
PAI Health’s mission is to become the new global standard for physical activity. And they are well on their way … Everyone knows that physical activity is correlated with overall health, but have you ever wondered exactly how much activity is enough to keep your heart and body optimally healthy?...
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Expanding Digital Mental Health Services to Canadians & the World – MindBeacon | with CEO Sam Duboc
Despite the hardship brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, one of the silver linings (if we can say so) is the major shift toward digital access to healthcare around the world. If access to affordable, timely and effective mental health services was a major challenge before the pandemic, what…
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Ayogo: Applying Gaming Principles to Improve Health | CEO Michael Fergusson
Ayogo has been named one of the top 100 most innovative mHealth companies in the world - twice. And it’s easy to see why … Ayogo works with some of the biggest therapeutics companies in the world to build applications that use well-established principles of perceived self-efficacy and behaviour...
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MedStack: The Data Privacy and Security Solution for Digital Health Companies | CEO Balaji Gopalan
Prior to founding MedStack Balaji Gopalan was perhaps best known as the Product Strategist who brought BlackBerry's iconic BBM service to market. Balaji is a passionate advocate of tech for good, platforms, data security and privacy and digital health. In 2014 Balaji was looking to build a...
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What do you get when you cross digital health and wound care? iWound | with Robin Mossing
Robin Mossing is EVP of Clinical Operations at iWound, a digital platform that is revolutionizing wound care through clinical education, standardizing assessments and treatment plans, and longitudinal monitoring for improved outcomes. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in iWound’s vision....
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PERSONALIZED PRECISION MEDICINE IN THE REAL WORLD | Dr. Elaine Chin
Dr. Elaine Chin is a physician, author, founder of multiple medical and wellness centers, thought leader in the field of precision and personalized medicine and a trailblazer in putting these principles into practice. We introduced the idea that using technology available today – called precision...
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AI AND VOICE POWERED CLINICAL ASSISTANT CONNECTING HEALTHCARE
In this episode I spoke with the co-founders of a Toronto Ontario based digital health startup that is developing a suite of AI powered clinical assistant tools for individual practices, hospitals and other healthcare services. Hear the story behind the company’s founding, its early mission and...
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REAL-TIME CANCER THERAPY MONITORING – Cadex Genomics | Bill Haack & Greg Schafer
Bill Haack, CEO and Greg Schafer, CCO are part of a seasoned team that is leading an initiative to transform the way in which responsiveness to cancer treatment is assessed. If all goes to plan, the technology being developed at Cadex Genomics could impact the course of treatment for millions of...
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PATIENT EDUCATION SOFTWARE & REDUCING MEDICAL ERRORS - Precare.ca | Raphael Gotlieb
Raphael Gotlieb created Precare.ca to address a growing problem in frontline healthcare – that miscommunication between providers and patients often leads to sub-optimal care, and in the worse cases, to medical errors and deaths. Educating patients about medical procedures using contextualized...
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HANDHELD BIOPRINTER TO TREAT SEVERE BURNS - ReverTome | Richard Cheng
While completing his PhD Richard worked to design and build a hand-held bioprinter – ReverTome - that can be used in real clinical settings to treat patients surviving severe burns. But what is bioprinting and how does it work? Can this unique bioprinter really regenerate skin? We answer these…
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Inside QiiQ Healthcare - Reducing Wait Times & Improving Emergency Care Workflows
If you’ve ever been in an emergency department you’ve probably noticed how busy, chaotic, exhausting and uncomfortable it can be. But ED’s are also places where highly trained professionals cope with extremely challenging work conditions in order to save patients’ lives. So, how can an ED be...
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Physician-Scientiest, Tech Entrepreneur & Founder TrendMD - Paul Kudlow
Dr. Paul Kudlow MD PhD is a physician-scientist, father, Founder/Advisor and former CEO of TrendMD – the largest native advertising platform for academic research that reaches over 150 million unique visitors per month. In this episode I talked to Paul about his transition from medical residency...
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Health Enterpreneur & Commercialization Pro Rob Iaboni of Digital Health Startup CoHealth
In this episode I spoke with Rob Iaboni of CoHealth App, a digital health startup that was founded in Toronto in 2016. Since joining CoHealth App in 2017 Rob Iaboni has been instrumental in growing its partnerships and customer base (primarily hospitals and primary care clinics) and along with…
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Healthcare Software for the Evolving Policy Niche: Learnings from Saud Juman, Father, Founder and Former CEO of Policy Medical
In this episode of Trends in MedTech we speak with Saud Juman, founder and former CEO of Policy Medical, a governance, risk and compliance management software for healthcare enterprises. Saud takes us through his journey of first coming up with the idea to solve a particular problem that…
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Wait Times, E-Referrals and Putting Service in Front of Health Tech, with Dr. Ilan Shahin, Co-Founder of ConsultLoop
In this episode we spoke with Dr. Ilan Shahin, a practicing physician-entrepreneur who has co-founded ConsultLoop, a health service navigation software that helps providers better track and manage patient referrals. One of the care problems that ConsultLoop is addressing is the lack of...
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Raising the Bar for Advanced Knee Assessment Technology with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of Emovi
In this episode I spoke with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of Emovi, a medical device company dedicated to developing and commercializing advanced technologies for the assessment of knee pain. Emovi began in 2008 when Michelle, a practicing lawyer at the time, was reviewing the clinical evidence behind...
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At the Intersection of Medical Practice, Technology, and Healthcare Systems, with Dr. Damon Ramsey and Dr. Puneet Seth of InputHealth
In this episode we spoke with Dr. Damon Ramsey, CEO, and Dr. Puneet Seth, Chief Medical Officer, of InputHealth, a healthcare software company that has developed a collaborative health record system to provide higher value service to physicians and patients. Healthcare, unlike many other...
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How a Berry-Sized Cavernoma Changed His Life, with Sean Costella
In this episode Sean Costella takes us through the events leading up to his diagnosis of a rare disease, a cavernoma, and how he took a leap of faith on one doctor’s opinion that ended up saving his life. When his symptoms got so bad that they couldn’t be ignored, Sean underwent an emergency...
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Portal into the Future of Medicines Delivery Technology with Dr. Patrick Anquetil of Portal Instruments
In this episode we hear from Dr. Patrick Anquetil, CEO of Portal Instruments, a medical device company based in Boston, MA that aims to make needles and syringes a thing of the past. I asked Patrick about his journey from graduate research to becoming an equity analyst, and then returning to...
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Naturopathic Medicine: A Different Toolkit for a Functional Approach to Patient Care with Dr.Taylor Bean
In this episode we have an insightful and delightful conversation with Dr. Taylor Bean, a practicing Naturopath Doctor based in British Columbia, about the naturopathic approach to healing, and how this can be used to optimize care for patients. It was fascinating to hear her about experiences...
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It's all in the Nutri: Educating People About Nutrition, Supplements & Choices with Sahar Kafi
In this episode I speak with Sahar Kafi about her passion of informing people about food and nutrition supplements as a vehicle to improve their health. She advocates for the importance of enabling people to make educated decisions about what they consume, because these choices play a key role in...
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Nature's Medicine, Holistic Healing & Owning Your Health with Carrie Dolha
In this episode I have a candid conversation with Carie Dolha about her personal experience with a difficult diagnosis, and how she had to change her mindset to take ownership of her health and recovery. Through this journey she discovered the medicinal properties of plants, and gained a new...
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Beyond Taboo: Treating Illness with Medical Cannabis with Chris Macmillan
In this episode I talk with Chris Macmillan about the legalization of medical cannabis in Canada, product accessibility to patients who can benefit from its medicinal properties, and Chris's vision for the industry. If you're new to the topic of legalizing cannabis and are interested in learning...
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Intro to MedTech Trends
Welcome to MedTech Trends! This is my introduction episode where I talk about my vision for this podcast. I start by introducing myself and how I got into the healthcare industry, which is the central theme of this podcast, and talk about a few topics that I will be diving into throughout the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each week we interview a company founders, medical researchers, physicians or other healthcare industry experts and hear them talk about the challenges of treating patients in the area of their expertise. We'll also hear about gaps in treatment options, and how cutting-edge research is aiming to fill those gaps, both in the short term and in the far future. Then, we talk to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other investors who are paving the way for a new generation of therapies, and who are looking to develop and commercialize solutions to fill those gaps.
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