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  • The future of healthcare looks different depending where you’re observing it from, and today’s guest provides yet another unique perspective.

    Paul Bates has had an interesting career - from particle physics to being the Senior Health Advisor to then Prime Minister David Cameron. From there to a senior role at the Care Quality Commission, followed by a move out of the public sector to Babylon, one of the first digital online doctor services.

    Babylon is on a mission to provide accessible and affordable health services to everybody on earth. It’s a digital first company with an aim to democratise healthcare. And their healthcare model is the same regardless of where you are in the world - it brings together the totality of medical knowledge with a clinical workforce, supporting them remotely through smart devices, with the power of AI and machine learning.

    Paul believes that by bringing together digital technology and a clinical workforce, Babylon will be able to change the economics of healthcare, by getting ahead of disease, intervening sooner and preventing suffering as a result.

    But how else does Paul think the future of healthcare will change? What does he believe it will look like? Could it look like?

    “The NHS has many, many great attributes, but it was not set up to do innovation. And I think there are some examples where it's worked, but most of the innovations come from outside.”

    Key takeaways:

    The Babylon model and how it will revolutionise healthcareThe rise of technology enabled consumerism in healthcareThe delivering of personalised healthcareThe drivers for changing attitudes towards personal health dataInnovation in the current healthcare systemRegulatory requirements for digital healthcare servicesThe benefits of digital healthcare
  • Dr. Vivek Muthu’s rich and varied career path has exposed him to a variety of healthcare systems and healthcare outcomes, making him incredibly well placed to discuss the value and the quality of healthcare, when considering what its future might look like.

    Vivek’s impressive career history includes gaining an honours degree in neurophysiology before working in evidence based medicine at Oxford. From there he joined the British Medical Journal where he helped develop a product called clinical evidence, examining the clinical value and outcomes of drugs and devices, before founding Bazian, a company dedicated to developing and helping organisations understand evidence based medicine.

    Having sold Bazian to The Economist Group, Vivek has since embarked on a portfolio career which has seen him on the board of a biotech company, a health data company, as well as work with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, working directly with hospitals in transitional economies, on their operations and strategy.

    So has he seen the future of healthcare happen already somewhere else?

    “When I look globally, there is nobody who seems to have a systematic method of disinvesting from old or ineffective technologies. And that's a major issue. So we keep putting new plants in the garden at great expense. But we never weed the garden.”

    Key takeaways:

    Why universal healthcare coverage means different things in different placesA future of healthcare should also involve stopping certain thingsWhy we don’t measure the product of healthcare - health outcomeThe lack of demand in healthcare means a lack of market for innovatorsThe myths in healthcare that need to be busted
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  • Don Berwick is a man that needs no introduction. His long list of achievements speaks volumes for his total commitment to humanity and his total focus on patient healthcare. Despite having a global perspective on healthcare, advising governments, think tanks and multinationals, Don still thinks about the individual patient, the patient who's put their care, their trust in the medical profession.

    And that is apparent throughout this entire conversation. Because for Don, the future of healthcare is going to be so many things, including digital. But there’s going to be no future of healthcare if the profession doesn’t work now to address the issue of quality of care, in particular, improving the quality of healthcare.

    From national governments to professional commitment, it’s going to take serious leadership investment to bring about this change, but it’s imperative quality of healthcare is placed front and centre.

    In 2018, three separate reports, commissioned by three separate bodies all involved in the global health scene, revealed disturbing findings about the gaps in healthcare quality, globally.

    “These reports say we have to really work on what happens to people when they get into the system, and the gaps are enormous. The reports estimate 5 to 7 million lives a year are lost in low and middle income countries alone, due to these quality gaps.”

    In this episode:

    The stark gaps in global healthcareWhy current health care quality is frustratingWhy a lack of quality in healthcare needs to be a local issueThe countries making patient safety a matter of policyTechnologies and approaches that can improve future healthcareThe 165,000 mobile apps that support healthcareWhy healthcare is like a repair shopIs the healthcare of employees an employer’s responsibility?
  • The aim of this podcast is to gain a better understanding of the possibility of what the future of healthcare could look like.

    Today’s guest is Dr Trishan Panch, originally a primary healthcare clinician in the UK, subsequently, the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer for an absolutely astounding digital health company called Wellframe.

    In between, Dr Panch has been an MIT lecturer for Health Science and Technology, he’s taught Masters and PhD students at the Harvard School of Public Health, he's on the advisory board of Boston Children's Hospital, he even set up healthcare systems in India, Sri Lanka, and the US.

    It’s safe to say that Dr Panch is well placed to discuss the future of healthcare, as he isn’t just interested in the topic, he’s already actively making a difference. Because the future of healthcare isn’t a distant dream, it’s a future that is fast approaching. And for Dr Panch, this future is digital.

    “I think the interesting thing is to think well, how many things at the moment are totally subjective, or non-digital, and I think it’s a really strong health systems priority to take as many of those things as possible and move them into the digital space. But the problem, of course, is that some things are very difficult to describe as data.”

    So listen to this episode as Neil and Dr Panch discuss:

    Healthcare isn’t limited to just medicineThe problem of medicine and health care is an information problemHow AI machine learning can automate diagnosisHow public healthcare will become bespoke, individual healthcareApplying data privacy (GDPR) concerns to the future of healthcareHow to use individual patient generated data to help those patients and their peersWhy India will lead the way on climate changeHow maternal healthcare can be digitisedHow healthcare leaders can learn to realise the potential of machine learning (if they hope to bring about change)
  • In this series about the future of healthcare, Neil is talking to a wide range of individuals, all of whom are working towards tackling the same goal - revolutionising the future of healthcare.

    Last week Neil discussed the rise of the third healthcare revolution with Sir Muir Gray. This week he meets Professor Gregory Katz, one of the EU's leaders and most dynamic thinkers on value-based healthcare.

    Gregory is Chaired Professor of Innovation Management and Value in Health at the University Paris-Descartes Medical School. He is also President of the Consortium VBHC France, a non-profit initiative dedicated to accelerate the emergence of standardised patient-reported outcome registries.

    Gregory’s passion and energy for his vision of the future of healthcare is palpable and contagious. So listen as they discuss why there is a shift away from a silo based approach to healthcare and why change isn’t coming from the top down, but from entrepreneurs working away at the grassroots level.

    If you’re interested in learning more about how to implement value-based healthcare, Gregory and his team are putting together an open source handbook detailing best practice and proven successful measures - Value-Based Healthcare Handbook (published by EIT House in January 2020).

    In this episode:

    What led Gregory into this workThe shift away from silo organisationsThe unsustainability of a volume-based, fee for service approach to healthcareChange isn’t coming from top down, but from entrepreneurs, bottom upWhat success in healthcare looks like from all sidesThe idea behind value-based healthcareThe importance of informed choices and actionable data for patientsWhere people should look if they want to see what value-based healthcare looks like The limitations of Lean healthcare
  • Welcome to this new podcast all about healthcare futures. We will be talking to a wide range of individuals, all of whom have a passion for creating a better healthcare future, and all of whom have a different idea of what the future of healthcare looks like and how we will get there.

    “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed… the future is not like the Isle of Wight or Mount Everest, a destination awaiting our arrival. The future is much more like the Forth Road Bridge or the Channel Tunnel. The future is something we have to imagine, design, plan and build,” says our first guest, Sir Muir Gray.

    Sir Muir is a healthcare professional who has been working in the industry for over 50 years, all the while delivering better healthcare. Sir Muir is probably best known for setting up screening programmes across the UK, but most recently he has been helping set up social enterprises in Oxford.

    In our first episode we talk with Sir Muir about the future of healthcare, what other futures have been predicted and what, with his experience, he thinks the future might be like. Sir Muir has been present for the start and the end of the second healthcare revolution, a former future that involved transplantations, hip replacements, cataract operations, chemotherapy, MRI and lab testing.

    But this revolution has run its course and Sir Muir believes we are doing too much of this sort of healthcare. For him, the future of healthcare is doing less of what we’re doing now and getting the public more engaged. That and finding out what the function of the doctor is in the age of AI and smartphones.

    In this episode:

    The future doesn't just happen, it is created Sir Muir’s experience in healthcareHis influence for what the future of healthcare might look likeThe second healthcare revolutionWhere we are doing too much healthcareHealthcare and wearablesWhy power now resides with citizensThe biggest change will be with clinicians