Category Archives: Health Apps

Shelley Lyford President and CEO West Health and the Gary and Mary West Foundation

Billionaire Philanthropists Pour US$400 Million into Initiatives to Help the Weak and Vulnerable

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Shelley Lyford President and Chief Executive Officer of West Health, the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and the West Health Institute. Growth in Population of Weak and Vulnerable According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is on the brink of a demographic milestone. Since the […]

Track and Trace Covid 19 Apps

Track and Trace: An Issue of Access

On the 18th of June, the U.K. Government announced that it would be scrapping its NHSX track and trace app, and instead switch to a model provided by Apple and Google’s Covid-19 development partnership, due to numerous issues with the NHSX app’s software. The U.K. is not the first country to halt the development of […]

Naveen Jain, founder of Viome an app to optimise gut health and nutrition

Personalised Nutrition App to Optimise Gut Health and Overall Wellness

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Naveen Jain, M.B.A, BS, Founder and CEO at Viome as well as founder of several companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Optimising Wellness via Nutrition Ira Pastor comments: On this ideaXme episode, we are going to head back towards the […]

Tom Lawry Microsoft AI For Good in healthcare Credit: Microsoft

Tom Lawry Talks of Machine Learning and Microsoft AI For Good in Healthcare

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence – Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft. Ira Pastor comments: A set of tools that we have been hearing quite a bit about (and discussed a bit on the show) in recent years is the triad of […]

Credit: Dan Mapes

Optimising the Everyday with The Spatial Web

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Dan Mapes, co-founder of VERSES.io and co-author of The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World. Amanda Christensen comments: We’ve come a long way since the invention of the internet, and even […]

Eugene Borukhovich

Cutting Edge of Digital Health Innovation

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Eugene Borukhovich, Global Head of Digital Health Incubation at Bayer and it’s unique G4A initiative. Ira Pastor comments: So the year is now 2019, and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. As part of that $7 trillion, […]

Dr. Shai Shen-Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist of CytoReason and Associate Professor Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

CytoReason: Artificial Intelligence Crunches Data and Speeds Up Drug Discovery

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Shai Shen-Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist of CytoReason and Associate Professor Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Ira Pastor comments: The year is now 2019 and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. As part of that […]

Oliver Harrison

Digital Medicine Moonshots Solve Major World Health Challenges?

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Oliver Harrison, CEO Telefónica, Alpha Health. Ira Pastor comments: The year is now 2019 and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. We’re spending close to a $1 trillion a year on pharmaceutical products and hundreds […]

This could add 15 healthy years to 1 million people?

This Could Add 15 Healthy Years to 1 Million People?

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Tassilo Weber, co-founder of Yolife. Ira Pastor comments: There’s a term used in the life extension movement known as “Longevity Escape Velocity” (LEV) – sometimes referred to as Actuarial Escape Velocity. It is a hypothetical situation which assumes that at some time in […]

Go getting DNA! Ali Parsa

“Go Getting DNA!” Ali Parsa, Creator and CEO Babylon Health

  First published on 18 January 2016. Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Ali Parsa, creator and CEO of Babylon Health, a doctor in your pocket health app, with over 150,000 subscribers, that allows users to consult a doctor via a smartphone app. Latest News: On 7th June, Babylon launched ‘Check a Symptom’, the world’s […]