It is a well-known fact that the potential of data in healthcare is huge. While some see data protection as a barrier, Elena Bonfiglioli – General Manager of Microsoft Healthcare – advocates that data privacy is in fact a key enabler for cutting-edge innovation and that privacy-enhancing solutions are crucial to reap the full power of the cloud. Tune in to our latest episode to learn how data can make pharma and healthcare more efficient and how AI can help extend our capabilities.

In this episode, it instantly becomes clear why it is a privilege to help humankind by reaping cutting-edge science and technology for Dr. Christian Rommel. As the Head of R&D and member of the executive board at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, he shares his experience in transforming how we are developing and regulating drugs, his view on the key to future medical innovation, and addresses how to enable patients to benefit from such innovations.

In this episode, Emil Hewage, CEO and co-founder of BIOS Health – a pioneering and awarded neural engineering startup from Cambridge – shares his visionary ideas for the future of healthcare, innovative treatments, and personalized medicine. His innovations are true game changers as he uses his expertise to spearhead the use of artificial intelligence for interpreting neural data, and by doing so, created new fields of precision medicine.

James Zackheim, Head of Corporate Strategy at global biopharmaceutical company UCB, shares what he foresees as the greatest benefits through collaborations between the pharma industry with tech companies. As these new partnerships, with the help of big data and AI, could accelerate the shift towards more preventive medicine and streamline the use of readily available data, however, there is also a disruptive threat from the new tech players that pharma should prepare for.

Cancer is still one of the most common diseases worldwide, and one of the top causes of death – also because there is no known cure yet. As this makes prevention all the more crucial for patients, we spoke to renowned researcher for biomedicine and scientific author Bernd Bodenmiller about his strong passion and commitment towards better understanding cancer.

The fourteenth episode features Betül Susamis Unaran, who is the Chief Strategy and Digital Officer at Zur Rose Group. She talks about the firm’s ambition to create a new healthcare ecosystem that connects healthcare products, digital healthcare services and third-party service offerings.

We are honored to welcome Aashima Gupta, Director of Global Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud, as the latest guest to our podcast. She shares how artificial intelligence can augment human productivity in patient care, why the future healthcare model is going to be hybrid, why data interoperability is key for empathetic patient experiences, and where the holy grail for a holistic understanding of a patient’s interaction with healthcare lies.

This episode features Dr. Sachin Jain who is the CEO of Scan Health Plan and who used to serve in the Obama administration. This conversation is about the benefits of virtual specialty care, why we should strive for a better normal instead of a new normal and what it takes to achieve real transformation within the healthcare sector.

For the first time, we welcome two guests to our podcast: Henrik Matthies and Julia Hagen from the Health Innovation Hub (hih) share their insights straight out of the ,digital forge' of Germany's Federal Ministry of Health. They stress the importance of an ecosystem approach and explain how COVID-19 may have a silver lining for the digitization of healthcare.

The tenth episode revolves around the digitization of mental healthcare. Our guest Nora Blum – founder and CEO of the German start-up Selfapy – illustrates that digital apps are a decisive tool in the treatment of mental diseases and increasingly help patients with depressions, eating disorders and other psychiatric illnesses to receive faster and more flexible medical care.