Technology

How to navigate cancer using mobile technology and the wisdom of the crowd

 
Eliran Malki, Founder and CEO of Belong, the only personalized and structured cancer treatment navigator joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Information and Health News Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Eliran Malki discuss the following:
 Belong is a free mobile app for people with cancer.  What features does it offer?
What kind of information is shared through the community network?
What kind of questions can you ask the medical professionals through the app, and how quickly do they respond?
Clinical trials are often a key component of cancer treatment.  How could this information be available through a free mobile app?
From what you’ve just explained, Belong is patient-centric, but do you also work with providers and payors, and how does this ultimately benefit patients?
What motivated you to create a mobile solution for people with cancer?
 
Eliran Malki is a veteran entrepreneur and manager. He combines management and execution skills with a proven ability to leading organizations from ideas to fruition.  During the past 20 years, Eliran founded and managed several companies including MoreVRP (acquired by EMC), Veracity (acquired by E&M), Commit (also acquired), and more. His expertise lies in leading technology oriented and high tech companies.  During this time, he won esteem and recognition for the development of advanced enterprise solutions, software development prizes, and business intelligence projects. Eliran lost his grandfather and his aunt to cancer.
Website: www.belong.life
Social Media Links: Facebook: @Belongtail Twitter: @Belongtail

The Growth of Telemedicine and the Reality of Its Potential

 
Dr. Gay Gooden, Co-founder and Telemedicine Physician with RelyMD, a virtual health service that provides 24/7 access to board-certified emergency medicine doctors for both adults and children via video consultation joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare & TeleMedicine Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Gay Gooden discuss the following:
The number of patients using telehealth services is expected to rise from less than 350,000 in 2013 to nearly seven million in 2018. Why do you think those numbers are increasing so rapidly?
Health systems and patients aren’t the only ones reaping the benefits of telemedicine. What other types of organizations are seeing reductions in costs?
We’ve heard about two industries that are actively using telemedicine. Are there other fields where telemedicine will also see growth?
It sounds like there is a lot of good coming from telemedicine. What are the barriers that still need to be overcome?
You’re a co-founder and an actively practicing physician with RelyMD. Can you tell us a little about the company?   
 
Dr. Gay Gooden is a practicing board-certified emergency medicine physician at Wake Emergency Physicians, PA in Raleigh, N.C.  She is a co-founder of RelyMD and currently serves as the Medical Staff President of WakeMed Cary. Dr. Gooden completed both her Doctorate of Medicine and residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also received her bachelor of science in biology at UNC. RelyMD, is a virtual health service that provides 24/7 access to board-certified emergency medicine doctors for both adults and children via video consultation. Patients are able to seek treatment from a doctor with an average wait time of less than 10 minutes via web browser or mobile app. RelyMD is owned and staffed by Wake Emergency Physicians, PA, a group of 100 emergency medicine physicians who provide care to approximately 300,000 patients annually at hospitals throughout the region.
 
 
Website: www.relymd.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/relymd Twitter: www.twitter.com/rely_md

iRestore Laser is the most effective at-home hair growth laser on the market

 
Craig Nabat, CEO of iRestore, an FDA-cleared laser hair loss medical device, so people can protect and regrow their hair, for both men and women joins eHealth Radio and the Hair Loss Prevention and Health News Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Craig Nabat discuss the following:
Tell me about iRestore. Get into some of the important details here for the listeners today.
Why did you start this company? What was the inspiration.
What products do you offer?
How is this technology unique?
What has the consumer reaction been to this new laser?
 
The best solutions are oftentimes conceived out of an entrepreneur’s own desire to solve the problems he or she faced. That’s exactly the case for our founder, Craig Nabat. Craig was a smoker himself and—like many others—had repeatedly failed to quit smoking. When he discovered laser therapy and finally kicked the habit for good, he was overwhelmed with joy and excitement. He knew he had to share it with the world and help others who faced the same challenges. As such, Freedom Laser Therapy was born.
With the invention of iRestore Hair Growth System, Craig sought a solution to overcome his own hair loss. Already familiar with science and merits of LLLT (low-level laser therapy) in the clinical setting, he had the roadmap to making clinical technology more affordable and accessible for home use.
Freedom Laser Therapy is a Los Angeles-based company that develops and markets cutting-edge light and hair therapy products that improve consumer health and beauty. The company hopes to inspire customers to care for their appearance and well-being in a reliable, health-conscious way. Freedom Laser Therapy was founded in 2003 by CEO Craig Nabat who, having struggled with hair loss and quitting smoking, was determined to find solutions to both challenges—and so he did with the iRestore Hair Growth System and Freedom Quit Smoking System. Nabat is a serial entrepreneur and was featured as the October 2015 cover story of Inventors Digest. Freedom Laser Therapy has been featured by The Doctors TV, Access Hollywood, Huffington Post, VH1, TLC, Fox News, and CBS.
 
Website: www.irestorelaser.com

How the Digital Health Company, Qardio is Connecting Tech, Design and Data to Improve Heart Health

 
Alexis Zervoglos, Chief Business Officer at Qardio, the award-winning digital health company joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care, Health News, Heart Health & Technology Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Alexis Zervoglos discuss the following:
Can you give a brief background on the company/products?
What is Qardio’s vision and where do you see the health industry heading?
You just went to CES, how was it and did you make any announcement?
Tell me more about how QardioCore & how it improves heart health - who is the ideal customer? What are the benefits?
How does your technology connect with doctors?
 
Alexis Zervoglos is Chief Business Officer at Qardio, the award-winning digital health company. Qardio creates connected medical-grade sensors, smartphone/tablet apps and cloud-based continuous analytics which increase diagnostic yields and efficiencies by helping users collect better data, which is put directly into the hands of those who can use it to drive better care.
Alexis’ 22-year career spans the finance and technology worlds. In the 1990s, he co-founded and ran a NASDAQ-IPOed company pioneering OLED technology, which is now starting to dominate the smartwatch, smartphone and TV landscape. Alexis graduated from Oxford University with degrees in Engineering Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, and from the London School of Economics with a degree in Public Policy.
 
Website: www.getqardio.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/qardio Twitter: @getqardio

Work Comfortably and Pain free with the Help of the New Phone App, WorkPose

Charissa Sims, an Occupational Therapist, CEO of Ergolution & Co-Founder of the Free Workpose Phone App joins eHealth Radio and the Health News & Pain Management Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Charissa Sims discuss the following:
What gave you the idea to come up with the Workpose App?
How can a user get the most out of using the Workpose App?
If I have neck pain, does the Workpose App provide suggestions and can you give me some tips to reduce neck pain?
What are some basic suggestions that can help people be more comfortable at work? A common problem s not having the correct posture while working in the office for an example.
What's next for Workpose?  Are you planning to add more content or features?
 
Vanessa Friedman is the founder of Ergonomic Connection, which has been providing speciality ergonomic furniture and computer accessories to businesses and individuals since 2003. She is a Kinesiologist with a speciality in Exercise Science. Her career started in the orthopedic arena by helping clients rehabilitate from a workers’ compensation injury. Through this work, she saw the need for injury prevention in the work place and the solution was, to prevent the injury by correcting the workspace and educating clients on easy to use tools, equipment and excercises. Vanessa has partnered with Charissa Sims to bring comfort in the workplace, mainstream. She hopes to get all WorkPose users pain free.
 
Charissa Sims is an Ergonomist and Occupational Therapist working in the field of injury prevention. She has been running ergonomic programs and performing evaluations for the past fifteen years. Sims truly loves helping people be more comfortable and productive at work and has seen amazing results over the past decade. While lecturing on Ergonomics at the University of Southern California, she managed the ergonomics program at Raytheon Space and Airborne systems. As a consultant, she worked with some of the biggest technology, insurance and healthcare companies in the world from Google to Electronic Arts, Symantec to UCLA, as well as City of Hope, FOX, NBC Universal, Riot Games, CBS, Union Bank, AIG and The Hartford. Sims receives many requests from people that work from home and cannot afford her fees. She wanted to create something that was affordable, easy to use and accessible. You can learn more about Mrs. Sims other projects at her company site: www.ergolution.net.
 
Website: www.workposeapp.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPose Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorkPose_App Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpose_app

YO™, the first smartphone based home male fertility test kit

Marcia Deutsch, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, of YO™, the first smartphone based home male fertility test kit joins eHealth Radio and the Men's Health, Technology & Sexual Health Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Marcia Deutsch discuss the following:
What is YO?
What is the difference between men testing their sperm count v men testing for their motile sperm count?
How did you create an at home, home test kit incorporating Smartphone technology?
How do you marry the two fields of health and technology?
 
Marcia Deutsch is CEO of Medical Electronic Systems (MES), the creator of YO, the first home sperm test powered by a smartphone platform. YO is an interactive sperm testing app that uses smartphone technology to analyze and report men’s motile sperm concentration with an easy-to-use at-home sperm testing kit. YO is the first consumer product offered by MES, which makes commercial-grade automated semen analyzers for hospitals and independent laboratories. YO is designed to help consumers access affordable at-home motile sperm testing to better assist them to make informed decisions about their reproductive health.
 
MES is aglobal medical device company and is widely respected in the industry as the gold standard in comprehensive automated semen analysis. The company has been an established manufacturer of commercial-grade automated semen analyzers for the past 20 years, and is wholly owned by Marcia and her husband, Gabriel Deutsch. Marcia has a unique career background, combining medical expertise as a registered nurse with years of entrepreneurial success. MES is her second successful business venture.  Prior to MES, Marcia was the founder and CEO of MedCap Medical Cost Management, a company that provided hospital bill auditing services to major health insurance companies. Marcia founded MedCap in 1988 and grew the company to become the leading medical bill-auditing firm in the Western United States. She eventually sold MedCap in 1999 to Healthcare Recoveries, Inc. a public company.Previous to MedCap, Marcia worked as a Registered Nurse (RN) with a nursing degree from L.A. County USC Medical Center. Her strong core background in medicine and experience in a variety of areas of the healthcare industry inspired her to become an entrepreneur in the medical services field. Marcia’s unique management style is based on creating a family-like work environment, making strong investments in people, cross training employees to expand their skills, encouraging flexible hours and work locations, creating ongoing reconfigurations of work teams, and enjoying fun times and laughter every day at work. “Like any CEO, I can get really tough and demanding when our company results are on the line, but I truly have a warm, soft-hearted, humorous and caring side that is really genuine,” said Marcia. “And, I always believe in setting a good example and building credibility as the leader, because no job is too small to be worthy of a high level of performance. Being a CEO is not about glory and material rewards for myself, it’s about building a great and solid place to work that will provide for everyone’s livelihood in the future.”
Website: www.yospermtest.com

GROKKER: Welllness is for Everybody and EVERYWHERE!

Lorna Borenstein, Founder and CEO of Grokker.com, the incredible HD online Video on Demand program lead by world experts, that will bring health and wellness right to your living room joins eHealth Radio and the General Health and Fitness Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Lorna Borenstein discuss the following:
What is Grokker and how did you come up with this idea?
Tell me about the programs you offer.
Where can we find Grokker? Is this just for consumers or do businesses offer it to staff?     
Since you’re from Silicon Valley, I expect you have some fun tools on Grokker. What are some of the features?
What's the best piece of advice for anyone looking to lead a more healthy life through exercise, yoga or meditation? Can you offer any tips?
Summary: It's never been easier or more convenient to live a healthier life - with Grokker's leading experts to teach you at YOUR LEVEL fitness, yoga, meditation and even healthy cooking, all online or from your TV with Video on Demand! A culture of wellness is for everybody.
Duration: 11:55
Grokker's culture is the antithesis of the stereotypical 23-year old male-led grind house where employees sleep under their desks and eat nothing but pizza. Grokker's Founder Lorna Borenstein, is a Silicon Valley veteran (ex-HP, eBay, Yahoo!) who has brought together a team of talented professionals who are changing how start up is done. Grokker is a place where you are valued, groomed, challenged, and given the freedom to do great and novel things with a supportive team all here to help you achieve your full potential. Grokker makes it easy for anyone, anytime, anywhere, to get better at what they love through high quality expert video and connecting with a global community of enthusiasts and experts. With 1000s of premium videos in Fitness, Yoga, Meditation, and Cooking, accessible on mobile, tablet, tv, or web, Grokker helps you achieve your wellness goals and Be A Better You!
Website: Grokker.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/GrokkerincTwitter: @grokkerinc
The views and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the eHealth Radio Network.

Innovation in Healthcare Asset Disposition

 
Joanne Frogge, the President of BidMed, a healthcare technology company assisting clients globally to buy and sell medical equipment, using a proprietary data system and an innovative web-based software joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Joanne Frogge discuss the following:
Tell us about your industry and why you started this company.
What services does BidMed provide and how do they solve problems that healthcare facilities are facing?
Tell us about BidMed’s innovative technology products and how they support the services BidMed offers.
Why would facilities have surplus assets, and in what situations do they face large-scale liquidations? Who buys surplus assets?
Do you work with GPOs (Group Purchasing Organizations)? How can healthcare facilities utilize your services through GPO’s? What is the advantage?
Duration: 14:18
Joanne Frogge is the president of BidMed, a technology leader in the healthcare asset disposition industry, specializing in the buying and selling of pre-owned medical equipment. BidMed’s goal is to create a transparent marketplace that helps healthcare facilities reduce their capital expenditures on procurement and maximize returns on disposition.
Joanne earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. She began her career in the Aerospace Defense Industry, working as a Systems Engineer on a missile defense project. Joanne discovered her true passion was solving complex business problems, which led her to pursue an MBA and transition to the healthcare industry. Given the challenges facing the healthcare industry, Joanne recognized a tremendous opportunity in this space, and in 2012, co-founded BidMed.
With over 15 years of business management experience and a strong technical background, Joanne plans and executes BidMed’s strategic direction resulting in successful achievement of the company’s vision and financial goals. Joanne has been instrumental in attaining an annual average growth rate of 40% year after year since BidMed’s inception. On a day-to-day basis, she integrates and manages the company’s major business functions of technology, operations, finances and marketing. Joanne is member of ACHE, CHEF, and she founded and serves as the Executive Director of DonateMed, which provides medical equipment, supplies and medicines to community clinics in need.
 
 
Website: www.bidmed.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/bidmedllc Twitter: @bidmed

Game Learners Highlights the Educational and Health Benefits of Video Games

Ravel Charles, Founder of Game Learners, who aims to highlight the educational and health benefits of video games joins eHealth Radio and the Education, Health News & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Ravel Charles discuss the following:What is Game Learners?What are the overall opinions of video games and its benefits?Why did you decide to start Game Learners? Where did the inspiration come from.In terms of health, in what ways can children benefit from video games?What can parents do to help their kids benefit from video games?
Duration: 7:39
Ravel Charles, a graduate of Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, founded Game Learners while pursuing his Masters in Informatics at Northeastern University. Game Learners’ mission is to positively educate the community on the effects of video games by highlighting their educational and health benefits.
In creating Game Learners, Ravel hopes to create an opportunity for students, who may not have responded well to traditional teaching methods, to start to enjoy learning. He believes with all the time and money that children dedicate to video games, parents need to take an active role in understanding what their kids are consuming every day and optimizing it in ways that help their kids develop.
Backed by an abundance of research conducted in the field, Game Learners is creating an environment where gamers can feel empowered to use their video games as their learning advantage.

Website: www.gamelearners.com
Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/gamelearners
Twitter: @gamelearners
The views and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the eHealth Radio Network.

Expert physician creates the new Pregnancy Power App – Pregnancy Power

Dr. James Betoni, board certified high risk maternal fetal medicine doctor and Founder/Creator of the new app, Pregnancy Power, from Boise, Idaho joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health and Pregnancy Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. James Betoni discuss the following:Tell us a bit more about yourself and your credentials for starters.Why did you decide to create the Pregnancy Power App?  How is it different than any other pregnancy app that is out there?Did you develop this app to replace your published workbook due to the change in times and people using apps?What are your goals for this new app?
Duration: 7:44
Dr. Jim’s journey towards writing The Pregnancy Power Workbook began in 1967 when his mother gave birth to his little sister; who was born with Down syndrome. In an era when children with her condition were put into homes for special needs, his parents lovingly chose to parent and raise her in their home. As the five-year old big brother, young Jim soon became the family expert on chromosomes and learned that his sister had an extra one. His first hand experiences of living with and caring for his sister who suffered through many health conditions, played a major role in inspiring him to pursue a career in health care.
Through 20 years of refining his skills as an OB/GYN physician, he has come to recognize the vulnerability that many women experience during their pregnancies because of their lack of knowledge. Our medical system does not consistently allow adequate time for determining patients’ levels of understanding. As the co-author of The Pregnancy Power Workbook, he feels privileged to help create a meaningful pregnancy guide that changes the way women and their providers approach prenatal care. Rather than being thrown into a system that does not support their needs, women using this workbook will experience the reassuring and motivating power gleaned from real knowledge.
45 years after learning about his sister’s extra chromosome, Dr. Jim realized his dream. In 2010 he completed his fellowship subspecialty training in Maternal Fetal Medicine. “Now I can better care for women with high-risk pregnancies, including those carrying a baby with Down syndrome, with compassion built from many years of personal experience.”
Dr. Jim enjoys his new practice with the University Perinatology Consultants in Colorado Springs where he lives with his wife, three active children, his mother, and his sister. When time allows, they all enjoy theater, dining, and traveling.

Website: pregnancypower.org
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PregnancyPower
Twitter: @DrBetoni
The views and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the eHealth Radio Network.