Incremental Steps to Health
This week I am talking to Dr Khan Siddiqui (@DrKhan ) radiologist, programmer, serial entrepreneur, and Founder, CTO, and CMO of HIGI – the company that is taking the concepts of consumer engagement and tracking to the next level and creating actionable insights that patients and their care team can use
Much of Khan’s journeys mirrors my journey into the space of Digital Health – starting as a programmer in school where he was building applications on a PDB-11 using punch cards and continuing on through his early work on the Electronic Health Record mining data and applying machine learning and deep learning as far back as 2005 to healthcare data.
Microsoft Kinect
Listen to his story of a turnabout of shared innovation at Microsoft where the work the healthcare team had done on image analytics was applied to the Kinect bar and gaming solving one of the challenging problems of “missing body parts”
He was involved in the early work of Microsoft Health Vault and like others believed in the mission of sharing clinical data with patients and getting them engaged was a key requirement to solving health challenges – many of which are tied up with personal behavior. Frustrated by the lack of uptake compared to the Xbox gaming system he took this experience with him to found Higi and replicate the gaming user engagement and bring this to healthcare
Listen in to gain a different perspective to Xbox gaming and how healthcare has contributed and learned from this world.
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