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Deborah DiSanzo: On Saving Lives
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On Episode 10, the final episode of Season 1 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg is joined by Deborah DiSanzo, President of Best Buy Health.
Meg and Deborah discuss the untold origins of the podcast. Deborah speaks of her early days with Apollo Computer and the surprising turn her career path took leading her to Hewlett Packard, Philips Healthcare, and IBM Watson Health. Deborah explains the strategic variables and decisions they faced in entering the automated external defibrillator market and what she values most about her teaching appointment at Harvard's TH Chan School of Public Health. DiSanzo also shares her vision for the role Best Buy Health will play in enabling healthcare in the home.
About Deborah DiSanzo
As President of Best Buy Health, Deborah Disanzo is responsible for the company's health strategy, with a particular focus on bringing health technology into the home. With more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of healthcare and technology, Deborah was previously CEO of Philips Healthcare and held management positions at Hewlett Packard and Apollo Computer.
At Philips, she and her team brought consumer-grade automated external defibrillators to the market, making them first available in public places, then ultimately into the homes of Americans across the country. At IBM Watson health, she helped launch artificial intelligence offerings designed to help doctors, researchers, healthcare providers, pharmacists and insurers better serve patients around the world. Deborah is also an instructor at the Harvard's TH Chan School of Public Health.
Further Reading:
Philips Cardiology Informatics
University of Pittsburgh Center for AI Innovation in Medical Imaging
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced, edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
Theme music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
Intro and outro voiced by John Parsons.
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