What can the earliest days of telemedicine teach us about the future of AI-driven healthcare?
In this episode of Driven: Unscripted Success, Nareman Hamdan speaks with Jay Sanders, MD, a physician widely recognized for his pioneering work in telemedicine and the president and CEO of the Global Telemedicine Group.
Dr. Sanders takes the conversation back to Massachusetts General Hospital in the late 1960s, when his professor Dr. Kenneth Bird proposed examining patients remotely through black-and-white television. Jay admits that he initially thought the idea was ridiculous. He also recalls Dr. Octo Barnett challenging his assumptions about computers in medicine and the patient case that turned Jay from skeptic to believer.
The episode follows those early experiences into rural telemedicine networks, home-based patient care and Jay’s work thinking about healthcare technology for environments as distant as Mars. He explains why he believes telemedicine itself primarily provides access and why the next phase of healthcare may depend on combining connectivity with sensors, individualized information and artificial intelligence.
Jay also shares the home-care experience that led him to conclude that “the best exam room is where the patient lives,” discusses the long road to widespread telemedicine adoption and reflects on the stubbornness and curiosity that helped him pursue ideas long before they became mainstream.
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