The Future of Healthcare & How We Get There

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Episode 293 • 7th December 2022 • Global Medical Device Podcast powered by Greenlight Guru • Greenlight Guru + Medical Device Entrepreneurs

What kinds of possibilities exist in the future for healthcare? How can medical devices reach across different fields of medicine and provide a holistic patient experience in collaboration with each other? These are some of the ideas you’ll hear about in today’s conversation with Daniel Kraft about the future of healthcare.

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained Physician-Scientist innovator and investor with over 25 years of clinical, research, biotechnology, and entrepreneurial experience. He’s the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University and the founder and chair of Exponential Medicine. Daniel is Board Certified in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and completed fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation at Stanford. He’s also Faculty Chair of Medicine at Singularity University and Founder, and Chair of Exponential Medicine, a unique cross-disciplinary program that explores how rapidly advancing, convergent technologies can shape the future of healthcare. Advisor to several leading biomedical & digital health startups. He’s given six TEDx & TEDMED talks.

Listen to the episode to learn more about how Daniel sees the need to start integrating across platforms to give doctors a more holistic view of the patient, the transition from “sick care” to healthcare, and what actions he thinks will help shape the future of healthcare.

Some of the highlights of this episode include:

Advice for developers on creating devices with a symbiotic relationship with other devices in the field
What the future looks like for physicians when patients can do their own self-assessments
Whether physicians are too hands-off and removing physical touch because of digital devices
How to achieve cross-pollination among specialists in different medical fields
Positive outcomes in digital health due to COVID
How Daniel keeps tabs on a variety of different fields
Finding unmet needs in the market
New ways to engage with patients
Actions to take for the future

Memorable quotes from Daniel Kraft:

“Most every medical device can have some sort of digital layer to it.”

“The future’s already here, just not evenly distributed.”

“Lateral thinking means also just… trying new things and staying curious, but also sharing that with others.”

“You don’t want a separate device or app for every medical condition, you kind of want one ring to rule them all and to make holistic sense out of this.”