Impulse - Meeting Healthcare Pioneers

Uncovering new possibilities in patient care? 💡 Sometimes, the best solutions aren’t the most obvious. Emmanuel Bilbault from Posos shares a story of how their solution helped address a challenging case. One of a woman having just given birth but facing severe hypertension, which life was saved by Viagra! The treatment was proposed by their platform as a potential solution, given the input provided by the medical teams in despair. While unusual and unexpected, it proved to be very effective. This highlights how digital health solutions can provide clinicians with important insights, expanding their options and improving care in critical situations! 🚨 #DigitalHealth #LifeSaving #PatientCare

Enhancing medical prescriptions through technology! 💊 Ensuring accurate prescriptions is critical for patient care. Emmanuel Bilbault and his team at Posos support healthcare professionals by providing them access to a queryable drug database, incorporating all the knowledge about medications in structured and interoperable bricks, driving safer and more effective prescribing practices. Their EHR-integrated software helps check the suitability of medications and verifies quickly if a prescription aligns with an individual’s specific needs. A big step toward safer and more efficient healthcare practices! Learn more about the impact they are making in the full conversation below: 👇 #DigitalHealth #PrescriptionSafety #HealthcareInnovation

From books to instantaneous answers: digitizing medical knowledge! 📚 ➡️ 💻 As a pharmacist, Emmanuel Bilbault saw firsthand the challenge of relying on text-based information such as PDFs, books, and scattered written resources, to access critical medical information. The inefficiency was clear, and so was the need for change. With Posos, Emmanuel and his team are transforming this process by providing a platform that provides instant access to all known information about medications, tailored to the individual patient characteristics. Their solution integrates within electronic medical records to facilitate the whole process of medical prescriptions, cutting through the clutter of outdated methods. The future of healthcare isn’t just digital - it’s accessible, reliable, and faster than ever. Discover the full discussion below! 👇 #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalTransformation #MedicalPrescribing

Eye tests have come a long way—from simple tricks to high-tech scans! In the 1600s, Johannes Kepler discovered that your brain flips upside-down images from the retina— a realization that quite literally turned his mind upside down! Especially since he used his own eyes for the experiments. In the name of science as they say… Fast forward, in the 1800s, Herman Snellen’s iconic eye chart appeared and with such a simple design became wide spread in a short amount of time! Even now, with fancy tech like OCT and Optomap, we will still go through this test at each of our appointment and we will for quite some time.

Creating on-the-go 3D digital twins for surgical training! 🖥️ Imagine quickly creating a 3D digital twin of a patient and practicing a procedure on it before working on the real case. That’s exactly what George Papagiannakis and ORamaVR are making possible! Their innovative approach enables medical professionals to rapidly simulate and rehearse complex procedures - helping to avoid mistakes and anticipate complications - for the benefit of surgeons, medical teams, and patients. A technology that draws on the latest advances in extended reality and artificial intelligence, to transform medical training and benefit healthcare systems! 🚀 #MedicalTraining #DigitalTwin #ExtendedReality

Did you know that healthcare practitioners typically reach competency for a given operation after practicing it 100 times? 🔢 That’s a significant number of real-life procedures before they’re considered skilled—but what if we could speed up that process? That’s where Dr. George Papagiannakis and ORamaVR come in! By providing immersive virtual trainings on digital patient twins, they enable practitioners to reach competency quicker, by extending the range of practice from the real world to a simulated environment. A very real technology that has already proved its worth, and one that George believes will be increasingly integrated into medical training! #MedicalTraining #VirtualReality #HealthcareInnovation

This innovative approach is transforming medical training! 🩺 Improving training methods is a crucial step toward better healthcare, making it safer for both medical professionals and patients. And what can be more efficient than an fully immersive and interactive training approach? That’s exactly what Dr. George Papagiannakis and his team at ORamaVR are working on with their extended virtuality technology specifically developed for medical simulations! They are leveraging this technology to allow medical professionals to train on a digital twin — a digital replica of a real patient - before any type of medical intervention. A futuristic approach to make George’s motto become reality: “never first time with the real patient!” #MedicalTraining #ExtendedReality #HealthcareInnovation

From frost to sun: the origin of sunscreen ☀️ Sunscreen is an essential staple for protecting our skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation, especially during the sunny winter days and the reflections of snow! ☀️ But did you know it was actually developed for use in cold environments? The story begins in 1938 when the chemist Franz Greiter suffered a severe sunburn while climbing Piz Buin, a mountain on the Swiss-Austrian border. This experience inspired him to create the first sunscreen! Funnily enough, Johnson & Johnson later named their sunscreen brand "Piz Buin" after the very mountain where Greiter's sunburn sparked this innovation! If you're planning to spend time in the mountains this winter, don't forget your sunscreen! 🎿 #Sunscreen #Winter #SkinCare

What capabilities of AI will change healthcare the most? 💥 According to Leo Grady, PhD from Jona, AI opens the opportunity to characterize the profile of a patient at a whole new level, with the perspective of providing personalized recommendations and treatments to a degree that was not possible before. A trend we are seeing across many medical specialties, which brings a lot of hope for what we might see in healthcare in the future! #PersonalizedMedicine #HealthcareAI #HealthTech

Deriving personalized insights from your gut 🧬 What if we could turn the complexity of the microbiome into actionable insights? That’s exactly what Leo Grady, PhD and Jona are building! Based on a lab-run analysis from a home sample, they are using AI to map your microbiome picture to the data available from all studies in this space. It opens up a new way to better understand the specificities of your microbiome, including your propension to certain symptoms and conditions, but also what might benefit your health in terms of nutrition and supplements! By connecting the dots, they aim to empower individuals with a clearer picture of their microbiome and what it means for their health. A new step toward personalized medicine! #Microbiome #PersonalizedMedicine #DataScience