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IEEE SA VOICE

by IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) · English · Tech & Science

IEEE SA Voice shares insights and perspectives from the IEEE SA community, subject matter experts, and industry leaders that are working to raise the world's standards, drive market solutions, and much more, keeping you at the forefront of technological innovation for the benefit of humanity.

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 29 min
Latest: 13 Nov 2025
Language: English

Latest episode

13 Nov 2025 · 36 min

Zero Trust Security Lessons from Federal Cybersecurity

What can healthcare learn from the Department of Defense about cybersecurity? In this episode, our guest host sits down with Dr. Elyson De La Cruz, CISO at Imagine Believe Realize and a U.S. Air Force veteran, who bridges the worlds of military, federal, and healthcare security. Discover how Zero Trust frameworks can transform healthcare’s approach to protecting patient data and medical devices. Dr. De La Cruz reveals practical strategies for CISOs ready to strengthen their security posture while enabling innovation. Federal cybersecurity secrets meet healthcare reality.

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E30 · 17 Oct 2025 · 24 min
Elevating Court and Field-Based Athletes’ Performance with Standardized Measurements
This episode offers a special twist to the podcast series as we delve into the world of sports and health trackers for athletes in court and field-based sports. There are groups of technologies that are used both on and around the athlete to enhance performance and keep the athlete’s condition at top level. You will hear about the latest IEEE SA project, which aims to standardize key elements in the use of these technologies for all athletes worldwide.
E27 · 19 Sep 2023 · 34 min
Being Resilient in Bringing Telehealth to Rural Communities
Patients in rural communities are prime candidates for telehealth services as they are in communities with limited access to healthcare facilities and providers. With the rise in the use of digital therapeutics– mobile health apps and remote patient monitoring and therapeutic devices– how do we penetrate these already challenged cellular networks to deliver this new channel of care? Hear about a new “standard” being established in remote communications for the future of global telehealth and remote assistance with satellite.
S5 · E2 · 12 Sep 2023 · 34 min
More than a Techno Solution in Bringing Remote Assistance to the Aging
How old are we becoming? The global aging population is outpacing the new generation quickly. In this episode with Dr. Elizabeth Baker, we discuss the many emerging techno solutions to address the needs of a healthy and assisted living aging population that is highly diverse from demographics to geographics. Find out what design principles can be deployed by technologists that can meet the demand for accessibility and feasibility. What will support trust in the use of these technologies while preserving dignity for the aging at home?
E26 · 23 Jun 2023 · 35 min
Moving the Needle on Trust and Equity with the Rise in Telehealth
How much has the practice of telehealth changed in the last 30 years or has it changed at all? With the rapid innovation of new technologies for healthcare delivery, Dr. Kvedar shares his insight on the last 30 years of telehealth, the rise in healthcare consumerism, the growing gap in healthcare equity, and how omnichannel telehealth solutions may have an impact to support marginalized populations.
E25 · 25 Aug 2022 · 23 min
More than Skin Deep: Remote Probing to Detect Cues Before they Surface
Skin health, wound care and management are critical concerns for caregivers, long-term facility staff, and patients. Most often, damage to skin has not been detected until issues have already progressed. Dr. Sanna Gaspard, CEO and Founder of Rubitection, shares how the latest in RPM innovations offers a non-invasive, on-demand monitoring capability to improve patient outcomes with treatment, care, and prevention.
E24 · 18 Aug 2022 · 27 min
Reimagined Healthcare: A Personalized Concierge Virtual Care Experience
Telehealth is disrupting the traditional healthcare experience of hospital fee-structured models to help better address health inequity. As one of the leading telehealth platform providers, Teladoc’s Medical Officer, Dr. Sayan Vyas, shares how achieving a deep understanding of patients’ behaviors and needs cannot be fully addressed in the traditional healthcare setting. Learn how the customized patient experience that can be enabled through telehealth technologies is feeding the future of “the hospital at home” and healthcare consumerism.
E23 · 11 Aug 2022 · 26 min
Securing the Telehealth Experience is Critical for Patient-Centered Care
Security and protection of personal data are core tenants in driving trust in the use of remote devices and technologies for monitoring or delivering virtual care. As healthcare intersects more with consumer wellness trends, the vulnerabilities and threats to security and privacy are even more amplified. Nakia Grayson and Ronald Pulivarti from the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST, share the latest trends and efforts on how the industry is educating and offering practical guides to safeguarding the telehealth experience.
E22 · 4 Aug 2022 · 29 min
Health Has No Borders with Telehealth – A Doctor’s Perspective
The need to extend telehealth services to marginalized and indigenous populations with a focus on accessibility and feasibility is urgent. As a primary care doctor converted into a healthtech advocate, Dr. Keith Thompson, shares that the work of equally reaching all populations for quality access to care will take more than setting up and/or relying on physical location.
E21 · 28 Jul 2022 · 19 min
Getting a Hold of Chronic Conditions for Patients in Developing Regions
Patients in developing regions are most often the most underserved populations whereby chronic conditions are left unchecked as a result of inaccessibility to health care, facilities, or tools. IEEE Student Member, Pramuka Sooriyapatbandige, shares how his research team is looking to mitigate the issue of accessibility with a simple, yet multi-purpose RPM tool that can be utilized, accessible, and feasible for patients in developing regions.
S4 · E2 · 21 Jul 2022 · 26 min
Breathing New Opportunity: Keeping Asthma Patients Connected
Breathing is essential; how we breathe is just as important. RPM tools offer an amplified opportunity for visibility for those with chronic conditions such as asthma. A majority of asthma sufferers are children, which means monitoring and getting real-time understanding of their condition is that much harder. JC Ren, Assistant President at CMI Health, shares how the latest RPM tools offer both real-time monitoring to parents and caregivers while making it convenient for children to utilize to help better monitor their condition.
E20 · 14 Jul 2022 · 32 min
Wearing It: Intelligent Physical Rehabilitation
How can we take physical therapy (PT) to the next level using real-world data from tools and devices without having to leave the home? Josh Rabinowitz, Co-Founder & CEO at Articulate Labs, joins our host, Maria Palombini, in a discussion on a new class of RPM devices that are enabling a viable option for remote patients who do not have access to a facility, but can still rehabilitate with more data and insights to improve their outcomes with or without a certified PT therapist at their side.
E19 · 30 Jun 2022 · 25 min
Advanced AI & Sensors: Reaching the Hardest to Reach Patients at Home
Healthcare is coming home. Sumit Nagpal, CEO & Founder of Cherish Health, explains how using advanced AI and sensors can efficiently and effectively support the wellness needs of the rapidly growing elder generation at home with dignity and integrity.
E18 · 23 Jun 2022 · 32 min
Can the Health System Benefit from AI as it Stands Today?
With the focus on accuracy, ethics, and bias in AI algorithms, we cannot lose sight of the need for more validated data. With hard-hitting insights and references, is the right question being asked: is AI good for medicine or is medicine right for AI? Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, Senior Independent Consultant for organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), looks to the data for answers with our host, Maria Palombini.
E17 · 16 Jun 2022 · 28 min
Mind Your Data: The First Rule of Predictive Analytics in Clinical Research
The value of prediction can only be as good as the data it used to make its assumptions. With the growing use of AI, the focus has been more on the accuracy and validation of algorithms, however, we need to get back to the basics— the data. The better the data you put in, the better the insights that will come out.
S3 · E5 · 9 Jun 2022 · 24 min
Getting Real about Healthcare Data and the Patient’s Journey
The time has come to unleash the value of unstructured data. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) afford those opportunities across the healthcare domain, however, AI and ML must be demystified and we need to embrace the value of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in daily operating systems. Alexandra Ehrlich, Principal Health Innovation Scientist at Oracle, and our host, Maria Palombini, discuss how AI and ML hold great opportunities for healthcare, but we can't lose sight of the challenge with bias permeating throughout accessible healthcare data.
E16 · 2 Jun 2022 · 35 min
Reducing the Healthcare Gap with Explainable AI
Fairness is not a math problem. Healthcare disparities are a global challenge requiring more than just physical care. Identifying and leveraging social determinants, when mined correctly, are untapped keys to closing the healthcare gap. Join Dave DeCaprio, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at ClosedLoop.ai, and our host, Maria Palombini, as they discuss how off-the-shelf AI presents a new perspective on transparency, reduction of bias, and a path toward health stakeholders' trust with explainability in its applications.
E15 · 26 May 2022 · 33 min
AI: The New Pipeline for Targeted Drug Discovery
RNA splicing is at the forefront of providing insights into diseases that are linked back to RNA errors. Dr. Maria Luisa Pineda, CEO & Co-Founder at Envisagenics, explains how AI, HPC (high-performance computing), and genetic data can provide the insights needed for targeted drug discovery in oncology and other genetic conditions faster and more accurately than ever.
S3 · E2 · 19 May 2022 · 32 min
Riding the Third Wave of AI for Precision Oncology
Hear about the recently released case study on the application of the “third wave of AI” that offers real-world data and practice on realizing the potential for precision oncology.
S3 · E1 · 12 May 2022 · 27 min
The Balance: AI’s Healthcare Goodness for Marginalized Patients
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness to chip away at the epidemic of healthcare inequity, or will it further create more inequity in the healthcare system?
S2 · E6 · 29 Jun 2021 · 41 min
Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy in Connected Mental Health – A Perspective from Europe
We are seeing rapidly growing trends towards the application of digital therapeutics for mental health conditions. Learn about the opportunities and growing challenges in managing duty of care, security, and privacy with vulnerable patients with easily accessible mental health digital therapeutics.
S2 · E5 · 22 Jun 2021 · 32 min
Response and Prevention Strategy in Connected Health - A Perspective from Latin America
What can an emerging Latin American region teach us when it comes to cyber risk management in the digital healthcare transformation? Learn how COVID-19 made it more appealing for hackers to breach labs, healthcare systems, and any repository of patient health data and research.
S2 · E4 · 16 Jun 2021 · 31 min
Uncovering the Great Risk in Security and Privacy of Health Data in Latin America and Beyond
What is one of the greatest risks in the connected healthcare ecosystem? Find out how organizational shortcomings are feeding this growing threat to institutional and patient security and privacy and the overall future of connected healthcare.
S2 · E3 · 9 Jun 2021 · 16 min
Securing Greater Public Trust in Health through Risk Mitigation – A North America Perspective
Can connected healthcare be a risky business for you, the patient, and every stakeholder involved? Learn how we need to better strategize planning and response to cyber vulnerabilities in the healthcare ecosystem.
S2 · E2 · 2 Jun 2021 · 15 min
Cracking the Cybersecurity Code to Accelerate Innovation - A View from Australia
Can cracking code on cybersecurity in the connected healthcare ecosystem accelerate innovation in the world of mobilized care? This episode provides insights into the vulnerabilities of the entire data value chain in the IoT ecosystem that impede maximum utilization and innovation in public health, wellness, and healthcare.
S2 · E1 · 25 May 2021 · 13 min
Threat Modeling and Frameworks for Cybersecurity in Connected Healthcare Ecosystems
In healthcare, is IoMT the Internet of Medical Things or the “Internet of Many Threats”? This episode features Florence Hudson, Executive Director of Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, as she explains the need for addressing cybersecurity in a globally connected healthcare system.
S1 · E5 · 29 Dec 2020 · 30 min
Contact Tracing Applications and Technologies Beyond COVID-19 – Re-Think Health
EEE SA Voice podcast discusses ethical considerations of personal privacy versus public health protection with contact tracing technologies and apps in the use of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.
S1 · E4 · 21 Dec 2020 · 16 min
Establishing a Standard of Quality in Digital Therapeutics – Re-Think Health
IEEE SA Voice podcast addresses the importance of establishing technical, data and scientific standards in the use of digital therapeutics to assure quality, safety and trust for patients.
S1 · E3 · 15 Dec 2020 · 22 min
Taking a Stand - Moving Medical Wearables Beyond Monitoring – Re-Think Health
IEEE SA Voice podcast explores bringing together pharmaceutical clinical researchers and technologists to embrace and develop open source and compatible technologies.
S1 · E2 · 8 Dec 2020 · 30 min
Decentralizing Clinical Trials – Removing the Pain in Enhancing Patient Care - Re-Think Health
IEEE SA Voice podcast discusses the potential impact of real-world evidence for trial acceleration, the COVID-19 push for decentralized clinical trials, and the need to embrace AI in clinical trial operations.

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IEEE SA VOICE is a English tech & science podcast from IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA). Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA)
Language: English
Category: Tech & Science
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 29 min
Latest episode: 13 Nov 2025
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