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Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs
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A
Hello and welcome to the Beckers Healthcare Podcast. My name is Chanel Bunger and today I'm thrilled to speak with Dr. Molik Parahit, who joins us regularly to share insights into different things going on in the digital health ecosystem. Dr. Parohit, thank you as always for joining me today. Could you get us started out by telling listeners that may not be familiar with you a bit about your background and organization?
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B
Yeah. Thanks, Chanel. Always a pleasure to be on here. My name is Molik Perot. I'm a physician by background and then I'm also involved in multiple areas within healthcare. I was a researcher to start out with researcher in brain injury neurotrauma. That's my subspecialty. And then from there I've also been in digital health pretty deep, serving as Chief Health Information Officer at several organizations and also been on the industry side and both embedded and then also as a consultant for them and then currently looking at innovation across the spectrum, working both in research, innovation, digital health, and then the clinical side as well, combining all three aspects of my background.
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A
Perfect. Thank you so much for that introduction. Now, moving forward, what are some of the trends you're currently watching in the digital health space?
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B
Yeah, great question. And I think right now one of my roles and positions is as Chief Innovation Officer for Datos X. And one of the things that we have the vantage point, unique vantage point to see is all these different organizations that are out there looking at using the concept of AI for improving digital health technology. And I know AI as a term is ubiquitous out there in pretty much anything we see for technology in general, not just digital health, but everywhere. But one of the areas that as Chief Health Information Officer, I always wanted better insight into was which tool is legitimate, which tool is validated, and which tool can help me improve and get better for the goals of the organization individually and the organization as well in terms of improving what's out there. And oftentimes when you look at products, you don't have validated studies and research. So for example, in medicine, when I prescribe medication, that medication has been studied in depth in terms of its safety, efficacy, use, large population trials and. And then finally it's available to me to prescribe to a patient for their use and their wellbeing. But in digital health, that often is not the case. You get products, you do the best you can to evaluate them in terms of what the product does and then how it fits into your system. And then you have some reference calls, talk to other people, see how they've been doing with those. But that still doesn't answer the question of that product is validated and then how good it is for the system that I'm in currently. And so in that vantage point, Datto6 has been helping to serve that role of looking at validation. I mean, working with a lot of different companies. And it's amazing to me the evolution of technology over the last 10 years, and I know that's not obviously a hot take, is to say that things have evolved in 10 years, but to say that the amount of leaps and bounds that have happened over the last 10 years is amazing to me. And looking at the AI algorithms for whether it be EKGs and changes for lab values for operations, et cetera. And so I'm seeing this natural evolution, but also sort of exponential evolution as the technology is getting better.
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A
Got it, got it. And Dr. Pereira, is there anything else that listeners should know?
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B
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is really about how to validate things. And so, you know, working with several companies, one is a company that's looking at ways to identify and triage patients right away when they come to the emergency room. And so as soon as they come in, we relied on traditional methods of triage, of scores, et cetera. But now as soon as somebody comes in and you can put in some basic information, even at the registration desk, then all of a sudden you know the severity of that person, person's illness or disease or trauma, and then you can put them in the right category of seeing them, whether you're right away or you have some time, because it's not as urgent. I think these are amazing tools that help improve healthcare across the landscape and the experience of individuals interacting with the health system at the same time. What I'll say, though, is it still has not replaced the human touch in the care, as I'm both clinically active in seeing patients as well as in the digital health space. The fact that we're able to improve and enhance efficiency and the care that we're providing for individuals because of the technology. But at the same time, my caution is let's not have the technology take the humanness out of healthcare. Right? We want to still have that connection with people. We just want to provide that support emotionally, psychologically, etc. Because it's so important. And it seemed old school and it seemed very traditional, but I think from a human to human standpoint, that still hasn't gone out of style. And when I see patients, I see them every day pretty much. To see that connection and see the difference, you can make and to be able to take that immense burden off somebody of understanding and saying, let me help you understand what's going on. Let me teach you what the next steps are, and here's what to expect. And providing that input and connection as a human and human team and connection, it still has a lot of value. And so, as much as I love digital health technology, I still love the ability to have that human connection and be able to support somebody through their needs in a in a critical time period.
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A
Absolutely. Well, Dr. Peru, I want to thank you, as always, for joining me today and for sharing your insights on the Bankers Healthcare podcast. Thank you.
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B
That was good. Thanks, Chanel. Always a pleasure to be on. Thanks for having me.