In Asia, patients are often left out of the healthcare decision making process. After attending a UN meeting and a patient congress and seeing how patient groups are doing advocacy work, Dr. Ratna Devi wanted to bring this back to the healthcare system of her home country, India. Dr Devi subsequently founded DakshamA Health, non-governmental organization that aims to empower patients…
Podcasts
Episode 7 – The HPV Conundrum with Prof Woo Yin Ling and Rohit Sahgal
For decades, diagnostic tools have contributed to improving patient care by enabling patients and their clinicians to make medical decisions earlier and more accurately. What does the future of diagnostics look like? How can diagnostic tools and digitalisation support the transformation of healthcare? How can innovation help overcome access challenges? These are some crucial questions that Dr Durhane Wong-Rieger and…
Episode 6 – Thomas Schinecker, Durhane Wong-Rieger on the future of diagnostics
The pandemic has helped mobilise incredible advances in innovation across the public and private sectors. Why is it then, after nearly a decade since the recommendation by WHO that HPV testing should be made the primary cervical screening method, that there is still such a lag to adopt it here in Asia? As parts of the world begin to turn…
Episode 5 – Dr Katherine Fan on heart failure management in Hong Kong
In this episode, Dr Katherine Fan joins Diagram Dialogues to share her insights on the current state of heart failure management in Hong Kong. Dr Fan is a cardiology specialist based in Hong Kong. After graduating from the University of Dundee, Scotland, she received her cardiology training in Hong Kong and completed her fellowship training in cardiac electrophysiology in Stanford…
Diagram Media Forum Panel | Changes in the Patient Health Journey
How can patients in Asia take a more proactive role in managing their own health? How can healthcare systems be more patient-centric? This week on Diagram Dialogues, we share two panel discussions from our Diagram Media Forum 2021. In this session, science editor Kami Navarro leads our panelists to explore these issues. On the panel: – Joe Caputo, founder of…
Diagram Media Forum Panel | Moving Towards Value-based Healthcare
Is Asia ready to transition from a volume-based healthcare model to value-based healthcare? This week on Diagram Dialogues, we share two panel discussions from our Diagram Media Forum 2021. In this session, science editor Kami Navarro leads our panelists to answer this question. On the panel: – Gerald Kost, Professor of Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at UC Davis….