15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Dr Vinay Shankar
78 episodes
1 month ago
In 15 Minutes With The Doctor, Vinay Shankar shares the stories of healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are growing their unique ideas. Learn from their journeys, including successes and mistakes, so you can make your change to healthcare and grow your OWN idea. Each show covers key strategies, interesting concepts, and has actionable tips and tricks for listeners.
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In 15 Minutes With The Doctor, Vinay Shankar shares the stories of healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are growing their unique ideas. Learn from their journeys, including successes and mistakes, so you can make your change to healthcare and grow your OWN idea. Each show covers key strategies, interesting concepts, and has actionable tips and tricks for listeners.
72: How a smartwatch & iOS app is personalising care for Parkinson’s disease? With Amanda from Strive PD
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
21 minutes 48 seconds
11 months ago
72: How a smartwatch & iOS app is personalising care for Parkinson’s disease? With Amanda from Strive PD
On this episode, Vinay chats with Amanda Hare, a nurse practitioner specialising in neurology, and experienced in Parkinson's disease management. Amanda explains the complexity of treating Parkinson's patients. To help, she introduces Strive PD, an iOS app that integrates objective data and patient inputs.
The solution was created by a patient. It tracks mobility, tremors, medication adherence, and enables symptom logging. The app enhances access to clinical trials, assists tailored treatment plans, and empowers patients through actionable data.
Discover:
How Amanda started her career in the neurological field
How individuals with Parkinson’s often have unique symptoms
How Strive PD was created by software engineer with Parkinson’s who entrusted the platform to Rune Labs in 2018
How Strive PD tracks symptoms between hospital visits to improve treatment plans
How Strive PD has been able to track dyskinesia through an Apple watch
How mobility metrics collect enough data to provide baseline comparisons
How Strive PD can help to educate patients and optimise their treatment regimens
How Strive PD has helped people self-record and track their symptoms to avoid reliance on memory
How they’ve partnered with clinicians and medical professionals across the US to expand their patient knowledge
How they partner with pharmaceutical companies to shorten the cycles necessary for patients to enter medical trials
How their hope is to reduce the cost and improve quality of life for Parkinson’s patients
Guest: Amanda Hare
Website: https://www.strive.group/
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co
Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In 15 Minutes With The Doctor, Vinay Shankar shares the stories of healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are growing their unique ideas. Learn from their journeys, including successes and mistakes, so you can make your change to healthcare and grow your OWN idea. Each show covers key strategies, interesting concepts, and has actionable tips and tricks for listeners.
