HIMSS 2019: Live with Dr. Chris Landon

VFH Episode 26

In this episode, Teri welcomes Dr. Chris Landon, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Practice and Pediatrics at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Dr. Landon served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Southern California. He has pioneered device development in the area of pediatric pulmonary medicine. He serves as Director of Pediatrics at Ventura County Medical Center. He also has a TV show and podcast.

Key points from Dr. Landon!

Innovating healthcare technology through GECKO (Gamification, Education, Communication, Knowledge, and Organization/Ordering)

Attending HIMSS 2019

Dr. Landon attended the conference in 2018 and gave a lecture on a med-platform that was integrating devices and other technology solutions. He was invited back in 2019. It was his fifth year of attending the conference.
He hosts Get Moving TV, a TV show that has done 200 or so episodes on technology in Ventura County, California.
He has worked on numerous technology projects. The people that he meets at the HIMSS Conference lead to other projects.
They are trying to build up an innovation center in Ventura County. There was an aerospace industry in Ventura a long time ago but they all closed shop. They’re now trying to build that back up.

HIMSS 2019 Live with Dr. Chris Landon

Uses of Voice Technology in Advancing Healthcare

They have been working with Orbita to develop a voice technology where a person can just say short sentences into a phone for that voice to be analyzed for congestive heart failure, COPD and other diseases.
They work on solving bilingual education problems. Being able to deliver language to people who are illiterate is very important to Dr. Landon.
They are working on solutions to the opioid use disorder problem in the United States and worldwide. There can be a technology that analyses the voices who call in to report opioid use cases.
They also work on the issues of newborns with cystic fibrosis. There can be voice technology in people’s homes that responds to their questions about such diseases.