Basil Strategies and our event brand Doctors 2.0 & You  are excited to support the FemTech Summit, held online this year May 26-27, 2021, from 16:00–20:00 CET

We look forward to the increasing use of digital technology (mobile apps, wearables,  home tests…) to support health issues related to contraception and fertility, gynecological symptoms, improving data collection from female patients. Denise Silber

What to expect?

• You will discover the link between gender and effective therapy in medicine
• You will be inspired by talks around Innovative Screening and Symptom Monitoring
• You will gain valuable insights about the Future of pain + symptom management in gynecology
• You will participate in relevant discussions on the personalization of contraception and fertility

Scroll to the end of the post for statistics on the state of women’s health.

Join the summit and register here: https://femtechnology.org.

Which start-ups will be present?

 •> Ava: FDA–cleared wearable tracking device to identify both the opening and closing of the fertile window.

•> BloomLife: remote, personalised maternal and fetal healthcare.

•> Clue: tracking the menstrual cycle to better understand how the female body works –now an FDA approved form of contraception.

•> Eli Health: an algorithm evaluating hormones in saliva to monitor the most fertile days.

•> EndoDiag: developingnewdiagnostic solutionsfor endometriosis for healthcare professionals.

•> Gynica: creating cannabis–based pharmacology for the female body.

•> Haplomind: supportingperinatal depression and anxiety.

•> Kheiron medical: using artificial intelligence to diagnose breast cancer

•> Mobile ODT: using artificial intelligence for cervical screening, evaluation, and sexual assault forensics.

•> Oui: makingcervicalmucus temporarily impenetrable to sperm.

•> Syrona Health: personalising endometriosis care with insights and tracking.

•> TestmateHealth: at home STDkits.

Some statistics:

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left to right and clockwise: Matthew Eagles, Pr Shafi Ahmed, Denise Silber, Lorena McNaughtan, Paul Gordon

Which learnings for the future are inspired by the life, work, and words of Michael Seres?  What is Michael’s legacy ? This was the theme of our panel on the main stage,  day 1 at Giant Health, the event created and co-produced by Barry Shrier and Pr. Shafi Ahmed.  The session, proposed and moderated by Lorena McNaughtan, included Matt Eagles,  Paul Gordon,  Pr. Shafi Ahmed, and myself.  You can watch the video replay below. The panel began at hour five of the day. And I speak around 5’23”.

L to R, clockwise. the ePatient group at Doctors 2.0, Michael hosting a workshop at Doctors 2.0, teatime at St Pancras

While Michael, humble and modest as he was, might not have agreed that we dedicate a panel to him, the opportunity to gather together and focus on him and his legacy, was a true treasure of a moment.  I had met Michael  in 2012, a few months after his transplant operation, in Palo Alto, as an epatient scholar at one of the early Stanford Medicine X conferences. Michael came up to me straightaway and expressed interest in speaking at Doctors 2.0 & You. His unique person and story were awesome. I was convinced in the first moments and Michael did a dual keynote at 2013, bringing his dietitian to Doctors 2.0 & You. That meeting seems both yesterday and ages ago, in terms of all that has transpired since then in  the community and of course the successes of Michael’s life. While much more remains to be done, we cannot deny that progress has been made in the world of patient engagement.

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Dr Fabrice Denis, Oncologist and eHealth innovator

On July 29th, 2020, it’s a historic moment for digital health in France, as Moovcare becomes the first medical application, a class 1 medical device, to officially achieve reimbursement status. I had the great honor of meeting the creator of this application, Dr Fabrice Denis, oncologist, in 2014, when he was getting ready to present his first results at ASCO. We had been introduced by the French Federation of Private Hospitals who recommended I invite him to speak at Doctors 2.0 & You, and Dr Denis had graciously accepted to do so.

“Moovcare® improves survival by monitoring patient symptoms on a weekly basis and alerting medical teams to the first signs of an anomaly – allowing for early intervention when the likelihood of successful treatment is highest.”

Nine Years of Work for the Inventor and the Development of the App

• Dr Denis’s work on the future application had begun in 2011 (!) with the idea that regularly collecting patient-generated data regarding symptoms could enable earlier intervention by the health system. At the time, he asked his patients to fill in paper questionnaires. Little did he know that it would take a total of nine years of research and development, submissions and meetings, for reimbursement to intervene officially.
• In 2012, he began to work on developing an algorithm that could understand the patient’s patterns and help predict relapse.
• In 2013, Dr Denis launched a first uncontrolled study of the future application.
• In 2014, he reached Phase III with a randomized trial. In 2016, the trial was stopped, when an intermediary analysis showed an average benefit of 7 months of  survival, 19 months with the application versus 12 months without.
• On June 6, 2016, those results were presented at ASCO in Chicago. It was also noted that the application reduces phone calls for the physicians and leads to half as many lung scans! 
• In 2017, Moovcare was deemed a class 1 medical device in Europe. Simultaneously an American study on 766 patients confirmed 5 months survival rate and a device application was also presented in the US.
• In 2018, Dr Denis published his final results.
• In April 2019, Moovcare received reimbursement approval.
• But it was not until July 29, 2020, that this became official. (See also my history of the app here in French).

About the reimbursement

The reimbursement is 500 Euros including tax, per trimester. Only the specialist (oncologist, pulmonologist, surgeon) can determine that the patient is eligible and prescribe the application. He/she must inform the gatekeeper physician of the prescription, which is for six months but can be renewed. The patient must consent to the treatment of the data, have an internet connection and email, and use a specific login. Further details are available in French at TicPharma.

This is an historic moment, not only because the application is reimbursed, but also because it is an official recognition of the value of patient-generated data in prolonging survival, and, last but not least, we also see how an app can reduce scans and physician time required.

Again, congratulations to the inventor and the team. Now, the work is in the hands of the patients and physicians, in the real world. Good luck to all.

Denise Silber

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Michael Seres touched the lives of so many people: family and friends, people he knew as a patient, people he knew professionally as a patient, those who saw him speak at an event, those who followed him online. The closer we were to the inner circle, the more pained we are that we cannot have « one more conversation » with the exceptional soul that is Michael. Today I found myself spontaneously imagining that conversation in the form of an interview. Here is what we said:

Denise: Hello Michael, I’m so glad we could connect despite the massive time zone difference. You remember our many conversations. We’d talk about how things were going and come up with ideas for the future of healthcare, digital innovation, and patients, sometimes for a post or an event, sometimes just for us. Well, I need one more conversation with you today, just one more. In fact, we all do, and I know you’re otherwise occupied, but is that ok? And then I can let everyone know how it went.

Michael Seres leads his 1st workshop at Doctors 2.0 & You, Paris

Michael: Of course, Denise. If I can help, I’m glad to. But first, let me ask you. Are you okay? Are you taking care of yourself? You know I worry about you. I’m so glad you’re focusing on exciting projects these days. I want you to be happy!

Denise: Well yes, Michael, I am. I’m really fine Michael. Don’t worry. Shouldn’t I be asking you if you aren’t working too hard on your start-up, successful as it is?

Michael: Not a problem. I love what I do and 11Health is doing fine, Denise. We’ve got an outstanding and dedicated team. Everyone at 11Health knows I’ve never been the founder who looks over their shoulder. So when I need to take time off, when I’m not available, they carry on perfectly. But, let’s get on to our conversation and  your questions. What did you want to talk about?

Denise: Michael, would it be fair to say that the single activity in which you have the greatest experience is being a patient? You started that career at age twelve, thirty-nine years ago?

A rare teatime at Saint-Pancras

Michael: Now that you ask, I have reached the most senior level of « patienthood » indeed! It was undoubtedly thanks to the words of the first gastroenterologist my parents ever took me to see, when I was twelve. That consultant went on to care for the Queen and became Sir Anthony Dawson. This wise gastroenterologist told me that he could help me under one condition, « that we would be a team, ie that I would need to hold up my end of the responsibilities. It’s what I’ve been doing ever since, for all my diseases, holding up my part of the bargain. I say diseases, because after Crohn’s, and the transplant, I went on to face cancer twice, and a whole set of medical situations. You know I never do things halfway!

Denise: Agreed, Michael. So you became quite informed about each of these conditions, through your own reading, through relationships with healthcare professionals and patient peers. You also became so experienced in hospital stays, that you were named a food representative by the NHS. You started a blog to reflect upon the patient perspective, a blog which was noticed by 100 000 readers including your surgeon back in 2011-2012.

Michael: You have followed my story closely, Denise. Yes, I had quite a few useful remarks to give about the food served in the British hospitals. Take British cooking and add hospital and the result is not French cuisine by any means. I started that blog, when I was on my way to becoming the 11th colon transplant patient in the UK, and subsequently added in my activity on Twitter and Facebook. And following that, crowdfunding for health-related charities, through long distance bike races from England to France, and in the US. You followed a few of those races on social media, I recall.

Patient Keynotes at Doctors 2.0. Michael is waving from the back.

Denise: Yes, Michael, and let us not forget that you became a figure on the conference circuit, which is how we met in 2012. With your transplant surgeon’s permission, you were attending Stanford MedicineX on an e-patient scholarship. I was presenting the European Wrap-up. You came up to me to enquire about speaking at Doctors 2.0 & You. With your combination of humility, enthusiasm, and wit, I was convinced at the word “enquire”. Doctors 2.0 & You was your first international speaking engagement. And you’ve made some very close friends there I can tell you.

Michael: Yes and I returned. How could I not love an event that offered multiple patients the opportunity to be speakers and keynotes for a global audience in the room and on Twitter? So many unforgettable people.

After our Medicine X Panel together on Startups that think globally like 11Health

Denise: Yes, and you are so amazing that not only did you speak at multiple events around the world, despite the travel challenges of your medical condition, you even became an e-patient in residence at Stanford Medicine X. Whatever you do, you do successfully! It’s just an inescapable fact, Michael. You can’t help but put in the hard work and devotion that leads to success. And after rising to the height of communication and events, you took on the challenge of improving the patient experience through a start-up, devoted to connected objects, in a specialty niche, 11Health!

Michael: Yes, well, someone had to do it…to put an end to dumb ostomy bags, to give control back to the patients by collecting patient-generated data, data that makes their life better and enriches our understanding of the science.

Denise: Yes, but not every start-up founder  creates the equivalent of 11Health and Alfred Alert, with a team, patient coaches, approved products on both sides of the ocean, multiple start-up awards. You were a key member of the global start-up panel at our last Medicine X together.

At this point, Michael, I have one last question: you did realize your dream, didn’t you? We all so want to know you did. From an epatient perspective, you climbed every mountain in social media and events and as an entrepreneur in digital health, you designed connected products that were approved by patient, professional, and payers — all the while being so loved and admired by all and being such a family person. Multiple lives!

Michael: Yes, Denise, rest assured I did realize my dream…It’s been fantastic. I could not have asked for a better, more supportive family, more amazing friends and colleagues, a more interesting existence, and a greater opportunity to help. Isn’t that why we are here? I’ve gotta run. It was a great “one more conversation”. Hugs and kisses to the crowd!*

With fond memories, Godspeed and RIP, dear Michael J Seres,

Denise Silber

* If we refer to the patients and caregivers with whom Michael presented at Doctors 2.0 & You, it’s greetings to Beate Bartes, Liza Bernstein, Christine Bienvenue, Vanessa Carter, Catherine Cerisey, Marie Ennis, Francesca Fedeli, Seth Ginsberg, Tal Givoly,  Andrea Borondy Kitts, Andrea Limbourg, Muriel Londres,  Alan Thomas, Michael Weiss..and others

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New Date: The  4th Digital Pharma Summit taking place in Brussels

The key question remains and is our theme:

How is Digital Technology Changing Pharma Business Results Today? 

 Eight Reasons to Attend!

1. The choice of speakers and topics was qualitative and generated a magazine-like set of topics and program of interest to professionals in Europe.
2. Topics include:  pharma mindsets, global digital strategy, customer experience, HCP engagement, real-world data, AI and precision education, use of video, pharma start-up collaborations…
3. The program is a half day in order to allow for an easy round trip within Belgium and neighboring countries.
4. The venue has been changed to the prestigious Steigenberger Hotel.
5. With 16 speakers and 240 participants, networking will be outstanding.
6. Pharma speakers include (by alphabetical order) MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Takeda
7. The organizing team is dynamic and attentive to providing a professional customer experience.
8. I will moderate and also present an introductory keynote “panorama of pharma in digital ”

  REGISTER HERE!

   See you in Brussels, March 20, 2020.

Denise Silber

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‘Denise Silber, the founder of Doctors 2.0 Event Consultancy, sat down with PharmaComms.tv during the Frontiers Health 2019 Conference in Berlin to discuss the opportunities she see’s for the healthcare industry to become more holistic in it’s approach to patient-centricity.

Denise Silber is the founder of Doctors 2.0 Event Consultancy, who work closely with healthcare and medical events to make their content more cutting edge and engaging through digital health topics, patient keynotes, start-up challenges. Denise is also preparing the launch of VRForHealth, with a co-founder, a resource for VR Therapy for phobias, depression, and rehabilitation.’

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2020 Calendar: 12 Patient Associations Bare All

Support 12 French patient associations by purchasing this 2020 calendar in which they have taken on the challenge to bare all, one association per month.

The calendar is a huge success with lots of media coverage in France. At Doctors 2.0 & You, we are partners with the people involved in this operation and thought that our many international friends should have the opportunity to hear about it and hopefully order one, since all donations go to the participating associations. Read on to learn more.

While the body is  something we are born with, many people lose confidence in theirs some time in their childhood or adolescence. They feel that some aspect of their physique is “not good enough.” We know the harmful consequences of “body-shaming.”

Now imagine that your body is concerned by a medical condition or treatment that leads people in your environment to consider you as “different” or even inferior.

In Paris, France,  Claude Touche of EveDrug,  a start-up founder and friend came up with a fantastic idea: a year 2020 patient association calendar, to be launched at the 30th edition of the French Festival of Health Communication. In this calendar, 12 patient associations, one per month, would “own” their condition, by baring all. For the execution, he turned to Stéphanie Chevrel et Gaël de Vaumas, co-founders of a French webtv Acteurs de Santé, who chose photographer Nathalie Oundjian.

Please click for the order form in English! It’s 20 euros for a good cause.

With Best Regards for 2020 from Denise Silber

                                                        the 2020 calendar cover

                                                           the 12 Patient Associations who share the months of the year on the calendar

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   Denise Silber and Vanessa Carter

As 2019 draws to a close, let us remember an important milestone achieved this year by  ICPIC, the International Conference of Prevention and Infection Control founded by Prof. Didier Pittet, in Geneva.  For its fifth edition, ICPIC was patient-included.  This very international conference (130 countries present) opened with a memorable keynote by Vanessa Carter, which drew the full attention of the 1000+ delegate-packed auditorium. Quite an audience for Vanessa’s keynote indeed!

It was a fascinating first participation for me, with a very rich program prepared by the outstanding Scientific Committee with the support of patients like Vanessa and others who spoke at the conference.

Please watch the lovely, short testimonial below from Vanessa Carter at the end of ICPIC.

We have also, at Doctors 2.0, put together a series of links for you to enjoy all the learning material provided by ICPIC.

• The abstracts are online .
• The Patient Participation Platform video I moderated is here.
• The video of the ICPIC Innovation academy awards is online here.
• To access the ICPIC Learning Platform: icpic.reghot@mci-group.com

And don’t forget: HandHygiene is one of the most effective ways to combat hospital-acquired infection, and it requires the collaboration of professionals and patients.  Read this interesting white paper published by the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

Denise Silber

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The Patient-Centricity Session

The Patient-Centricity and Digital Innovation Session at Frontiers Health 2019, which I had the great pleasure of producing and hosting, with the support of the Frontiers Health Team and in particular Elena Pirofalo, was standing-room only. The topic is of great interest and the panel was quite diversified, with 7 speakers living in as many countries and representing patients, providers, industry, start-ups, digital consultancies.

A special shout-out to  Open Project Diabetes for being a truly patient-driven initiative with results. Thank you Saskia Wolf for leading the way for us at this session.

Each member of the session contributed a quote of his or her key messages. Thank you to each speaker for your very sincere participation, which helped maintain the attention of the audience, despite the overflow conditions. As regards the three day conference in its entirety, bravo to Roberto Ascione, Luigi Pavia, Antonietta Panella for the professionalism at Frontiers Health and the resources deployed. And it was great to meet up again with friends Eugene Borukhovich, Fredrik Debong, Paul Tunnah, of the conference committee.

For myself,  Denise Silber, founder of Doctors 2.0 & You, “Two very different new tools are furthering  patient-centricity:  1) patient-included congresses are  bringing patients and clinicians together at important moments 2) VR or Virtual Reality therapy, which requires seeing from the patient’s perspective, in order to produce relevant content.”

Saskia Wolf, – OPEN team. “OPEN is a patient-led, international and multi-disciplinary research project which examines what academia, industry and people with diabetes can learn from each other towards the goal of making artificial pancreas technology available to everyone.” Visit our website: https://open-diabetes.eu

Rhea Mehta,PhD, Co-founder Bowhead Health. “We believe the future of health data management uses blockchain and smart contract technology to enable people to own and manage their data, promoting empowerment and the consensual sharing of diverse, real-time, real world data with researchers.”

Simon Ip, – Digital Comm. LEO Pharma A/S “To be patient-centric means to put the patient first and to get them involved in the process as early as possible. Concerning the relationship between patient-centricity and digital health, technology is a tool that helps us better understand the patient’s need and come up with better, more efficient and personalized solutions.”

Elena Pirofalo, – Head of Experience, Healthware Group “People are the engine of transformation in healthcare. Supporting people and patients in their journey towards being more empowered is where digital health can be very effective. This is why we believe in needs-driven innovation, producing things that people need to solve real problems and create actual value.”

Towa Jexmark – M.D. Ramsay GDS. “Digital when possible – physical when needed.” We need to develop new services seamlessly for patients and integrated into a digi-physical world.

Luigi Capani – Innovation- Roche. “A movement is forming to help people facing severe diseases, beyond providing great medicines and diagnoses. We are genuinely exploring fundamental human needs to develop services that are personal, available globally, sustainable. Everyone deserves to live their best life.”

And thank you to Melania de Luca for helping us during the session with the slides and the photos.  Denise Silber

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