Sports Medicine Broadcast

Sports Medicine Broadcast


Digital Health Skills for Rehab Professionals

December 11, 2024

Digital Health is revolutionizing healthcare. Adam Whitman, now with Medbridge, was a practicing clinician for 12 years including running a concierge PT service for NFL athletes.


Digital Health Skills
Adapting to Emerging Tech

(listen to my recent recording with Casey and Kim)


I have my hands in most aspects of the company


More recently I have been focused on improvement in remote care possibilities.


Demand for healthcare is growing


More and more providers are getting burned out and leaving the profession


Are you trying to take my job?

All of our movement assessment uses AI


AI has greatly improved since the beginning of the internet…but it’s still a tool for you to do your job.


With billable hours telehealth was a real problem.


What led to the burnout?

Documentation


Lack of income


But it was honestly the patients


People want the provider to fix them without their participation


High school application of Digital Health Skills

HEPs are the simplest way to meet them where they are…on their phones


Digital video to demo the exercises.


Coming soon is a digital self-motion analysis that helps you know when to correct the exercise


The AI helps us understand the acceptable level of adaptation


The digital tool also gives us the opportunity for outcome measure data collection 


With some AI models, the exercises can automatically adjust to tailor to the needs of the patient based on the motion capture


The Non-Clinical PT


What do you bring to the table?


Do you understand what it takes to build? Can you make an app invisible?


You have to address the fundamental problem the person presented you with.



  1. It is a tool
  2. Break your habits
  3. Stop printing papers

    1. Digital prescriptions meet them where they are.


  4. Data is far greater than an individual can

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