The Age of Digital Health Humanity with Philippe Gerwill - Full Transcript | The Med Device Cyber Podcast

Unlearning is a very important point and it's even important skills, you know, that we should not be afraid to say, look, what they learned that that time was the best knowledge at that time, you know, but things changed. We ask always more and more data from the doctor and I'm the last one to say, we need more data, but not from the doctor. The doctor should be the human person in front of you, you know, and I'm a big fan of that. You know, this ChatGPT health stuff came out. Of course, physicians are complaining about that. You know, but they are doing nothing else than listening to the consumer. The consumer go there, they ask the question, if the clinicians like it like it or not, that's what is happening. Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Med Device Cyber podcast. I'm your host Christian Espinosa. Unfortunately, Trevor our co-host won't be able to join us today. He is on site helping a client through an FDA audit. Uh, but we are joined today with a special guest. uh, Philip from coming to us from right outside of Basel, Switzerland. Uh, so you said it's on the border of France and Switzerland. Is that right? Philippe: Yes, that's right, yeah. Christian: I don't remember where we met. I think we may have met MedTech World in Dubai like a... Philippe: ...two years ago. Christian: Yeah, a couple years ago. Philippe: Or last year. Dubai last year, yeah. Christian: Yeah, and then I we ran into each other again uh in Dubai like a month ago before uh the the war started. Uh, So yeah, so you want to tell us a little bit about your background? I know you're a a futurist and a AI expert, which will make for an interesting conversation because cybersecurity is part of the future. AI, obviously. And I know you've done a TEDx talks and written a book and you you know, you've done quite a bit of things. So maybe do a quick intro of yourself and then we can dive into um a few areas also. Philippe: Okay, so first of all, thank you very much for the invitation, you know, very happy to have this this talk with you. And I said we we we met in Dubai uh last year and then we met again in Malta in November and now again in Dubai in February. So, looks like you are regular have regular meetings, so it's very interesting to have the catch up. So basically on my my background, I spent 30 years in cooperation, big corporation, mainly in Switzerland, in global roles, like like 15 years in in specialty chemicals and about 15 years in pharma. I left in 2018, uh, but uh and and then I started to move more into health care. So, you know, from pharma into into health care. But I already did quite some uh events and presentation, keynotes even before when I was working for Novartis, not in the name of Novartis, you know, I I had the disclaimer not in the name of Novartis, but I talked already in 2017, 2018 about, you know, blockchain, IoT, big data at that time. And again, I moved then more into, you know, from more the technology part, you know, more into health care, but of course always the link between technology and and health care. And I'm an international speaker, so so I'm speaking uh around the world, you know, from Australia, South Africa, Brazil. Lastly, of course, I spend more time in in the Middle East, that's also why we met twice. Uh I'm also uh an an influencer, a key opinion leader in health care. Uh so in I talked about metaverse in health health care in the metaverse, I talked about AI in health care, now also longevity. And also, I'm an advisor and a board member for many companies, probably close to 30 companies as as an advisor. Sounds a little bit crazy, but on other side, you probably know uh each company is not asking the same engagement from you. Some of them is just a yearly meeting, you know, yearly board meeting. Some of them are more regular meetings, some are weekly, some are monthly. So I I manage to to get all that under control with the help of AI as well. So, let's move into the topic with that, you know, but AI helped me also a lot, you know, to increase my productivity and to be able to to to have all these uh advisory roles and board roles because I think I could probably not do all that without AI. Christian: So AI has helps you keep organized with all your your um roles with the various companies?