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Digital Health Frontiers

Digital Health Frontiers

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Welcome to ”Digital Health Frontiers,” the podcast where we explore the cutting-edge of hybrid care, telehealth, and the role of AI in healthcare. Whether you’re a healthcare professional seeking to enhance your practice, a patient navigating the world of telehealth, or simply someone fascinated by the intersection of technology and medicine, this podcast is your guide to the future of healthcare.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Hygiene & Healthy Living Physical Illness & Disease
Episodes
  • The Sound of Safer Care: How Acoustic Sensing is Transforming Healthcare with Derek van der Vorst of Sound Intelligence
    Aug 25 2025

    While most AI innovation in hospitals has centered on cameras and visual monitoring, audio offers a powerful, scalable, and privacy-preserving way to enhance patient safety, staff well-being, and care efficiency. Derek shares how Sound Intelligence has deployed its solution in over 15,000 patient rooms across Europe, focusing on three key areas:

    • Staff Safety: Detecting aggressive voices and escalating behavior to prevent workplace violence before it gets out of control.
    • Better Sleep: Using a “Zen Score” to measure and reduce disruptive hospital noise, improving patient recovery and staff satisfaction.
    • Better Care: Expanding monitoring capabilities so a single virtual nurse can safely oversee 100+ rooms at night without being intrusive.

    In this episode of Digital Health Frontiers, Caregility President & CEO Mike Brandofino sits down with Derek van der Vorst, CEO of Sound Intelligence, to explore the untapped potential of audio analytics in healthcare.

    Mike and Derek also discuss how acoustic monitoring complements cameras and sensors, supports nurse efficiency, and opens new possibilities for detecting medical conditions like sleep apnea or epileptic seizures. With edge-based processing and no recordings stored, this technology delivers real-time insights without compromising privacy.

    Whether you’re a hospital executive, nurse leader, or innovator in virtual care, this episode shines a light on how sound can play a defining role in the future of virtual care.

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    18 mins
  • Expanding Hybrid Care into the Emergency Department with Ed Barthell of EmOpti
    Jul 11 2025

    In this episode, Caregility CEO Mike Brandofino sits down with EmOpti founder Dr. Ed Barthell to discuss how health systems are leveraging hybrid care models to overcome staffing challenges, reduce emergency department wait times, and improve patient flow.

    From enabling remote providers to support multiple facilities to using AI for clinical decision support, this conversation explores innovative strategies driving measurable ROI — including millions in recovered revenue from reduced patient walkouts.

    Discover how Caregility and EmOpti are partnering to modernize acute care delivery and help hospitals extend connected care across the enterprise.

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    19 mins
  • Scaling Virtual Care Programs with Angela Wilgus of Baptist Health
    Apr 18 2025

    In this episode, Caregility President and COO Mike Brandofino sits down with Angela Wilgus, Manager of Virtual Nursing at Baptist Health, to explore how the health system scaled its virtual sitter and virtual nursing programs across 13 facilities—and what they’ve learned along the way.

    Read the transcript here: https://caregility.com/blog/scaling-virtual-care-programs-with-angela-wilgus-of-baptist-health/

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    22 mins
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