AbStats, VR & the Future of Digital Health : A Conversation with Brennan Spiegel

By JASON CHUNG Just before the holiday break, in my new capacity as the Law and Technology Editor for The Health Care Blog, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Brennan Spiegel, the Director of Cedars-Sinai Health Services Research, about his new digital health innovations as well as his views on the medtech and data privacy landscapes. Dr. Spiegel leads an interdisciplinary team which investigates how digital health technologies such as wearable sensors, smartphone applications and virtual reality can strengthen trust among patients and doctors, improve outcomes and cut costs. Below is a transcript of selected moments of our conversation. For further thoughts, I encourage you to attend the upcoming conference entitled “Virtual Medicine” at Cedars-Sinai on March 28-29th, 2018 where Dr. Spiegel and other digital health leaders will gather to discuss the medical VR revolution. Dr. Spiegel on AbStats, a new medtech device developed by his team to track the gastrointestinal rate – a new vital sign: JC: I’d like to start by asking you about the most recent thing you’ve got going on and I guess that would be AbStats. I’d like to just congratulate you and I was wondering if I could get on the record how you would quickly describe AbStats from your point of view and what it’s meant to do and how it’s meant to revolutionize care. BS: Yeah, sure. So AbStats is one of the few things we have going on now at Mount Sinai and it’s exciting. One, A...
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