Today’s Open Mike video:
Follow up:
Turns out people like the idea of training our health professional students in data and digital - with thoughts about how you might consider experiential learning.
News:
Out of Silicon Valley - the trial has started for Elizabeth Holmes - here is some reading and listening to understand how it got to here:
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dropout/id14495007…
iOS 15 will be dropping next week (20 September) Apple has been working on sharing health records, have a look here for how this looks: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/06/apple-advances-person…
NZ start up Kahu has secured $3 mill in funding to continue the dev of its AI tech for detecting skin cancers https://www.yammer.com/emerginghealthtechnology/threads/1387…
Digital therapeutics pioneer my mhealth has announced the first international rollout of its NHS-approved COPD app, myCOPD in New Zealand. The rollout is initially focused on the Māori and Pasifika population, making it the first NHS approved digital self-management programme for COPD to be available in a clinical setting beyond British borders.
Robyn Whittaker talks briefly about operational testing of Blue Mirror in the Auckland region
Eileen directs people to the Ministry of Health website to learn about the Digital Enablement initiatives under way: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/digital-health/digital-e…
In depth interview:
Talking to Merrin MacLeod - NZ COVID Tracer Product Owner about life in scanning, Pokemon Go and how hard she is working to keep everyone happy Some commentary from the media on scan rates: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/qr-code-scans-are-spiking-but-wil…
Mail bag:
What about domestic vaccination certificates, prompted by this article from The Spinoff: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-09-2021/why-a-domestic-n…