Bio
Dr. Stefan Buttigieg is a specialist in Public Health Medicine with an avid interest in Clinical Informatics, Social Media and Digital Health. He currently lectures at the University of Malta Faculty of Health Sciences on the topics of Digital Health and Social Media in Healthcare. He is co-lead of the data management team of the Covid19 public health response team in Malta.
Summary
In this episode, Dr. Buttigieg shares the journey of how a Covid19 contact tracing digital health app was built in Malta, the best practices that the team kept up with, the challenges – which were not just technical and the learnings that may be applicable to digital health apps in general.
Key Questions
12:18.46: Where did you draw your inspiration for the architecture from?
17:59.05: What are your learnings that you take away in terms of building digital health apps?
26:24.42: Let’s say you have a million dollars to invest right, so what are some promising areas of digital health apps… that you will invest your money in?
Quotable Quotes
23:25.63: When you are there for your users and listening to them and listening to their concerns and acting on those concerns … then and that’s where you get the user’s trust, that’s where you get the individual’s trust.
23:46.96: So whoever does any digital health app, if they don’t listen, they’re not going to succeed but if they listen, my oh my, will they be successful.
27:49.22: If you face challenges where you can’t communicate or you can’t answer back or you can’t give feedback, that’s where you’re going to lose people.
29:16.83: For example, it could be something as simple as using Excel or Word or being fluent with using a web browser…If people don’t get this basic stuff, then how successful are you going to be with implementing an app?
Notable Mentions
3:53.83: Malta – the country, the people, history and lifestyle.
Mentions of other You+AI Podcast episodes
24:22.26: The skill of listening @ The You+AI Podcast — S1, E1 — The Doctor-Patient relationship with Dr. T. R. Gopalan.
Connect
Twitter: @stefanbuttigieg
LinkedIn: Stefan Buttigieg
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