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 medicine
• The problem of medicine and health care is an information problem
• How AI machine learning can automate diagnosis
• How public healthcare will become bespoke, individual healthcare
• Applying data privacy (GDPR) concerns to the future of healthcare
• How to use individual patient generated data to help those patients and their peers
• Why India will lead the way on climate change
• How maternal healthcare can be digitised
• How healthcare leaders can learn to realise the potential of machine learning (if they hope to bring about change)