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A Conversation with Bianca Phillips - The Voice of Law

Published: April 21, 2020, 1 p.m.

In this episode, Teri welcomes Bianca Phillips, a lawyer and leader/researcher in the area of digital health law making, and the founder of the Electronic Health Consulting Group.


Welcome, Bianca!

Bianca is also the host of the Voice of Law Podcast and she advocates for a future where telemedicine will allow for access to healthcare no matter where one lives, where wearables will allow people to predict the onset of disease before it happens, and where clinical outcomes will be improved due to precision and personalized medicine. She believes that the digital health future should balance the needs of both patients and healthcare providers by placing evidence-based approaches and civil rights considerations at the core of digital health law-making. She aims to be a prominent voice for a Digital Health School of Thought founded on these principles.

The Legal Perspective of What’s Going On with COVID-19

  • She’s been reading articles around how governments have been tracking and tracing people’s movements to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, and she’s also read articles arguing that the tracking and tracing is a breach of people’s privacy and civil liberties.
  • She’s been investigating all that and looking at the international covenant on civil and political rights on how emergencies like the current pandemic are supposed to be dealt with in regard to people’s liberties. She’s actually working with a prominent lawyer in the field and they will be publishing their findings soon.

Online Events and Webinars

  • She’s been taking note that everyone is now using telemedicine and she recalls when she used to talk about how advantageous it would be for healthcare, but doctors would laugh at her. People are now utilizing telemedicine out of necessity which is a good thing.
  • She’s been attending a lot of Zoom meetings and webinars, and she’s excited for what Teri is putting together with the Voice Den.
  • The Voice Den is something that Teri is creating to bring the basics of an in-person event into the online events and webinars that people have been doing. It like a reality TV Show but it will be done virtually, and it will bring on five mystery voice industry influencers, and an audience/participants. The audience will have an opportunity to ask popular questions and engage in a huge way and learn from the influencers.
  • One of the influencers will be Bianca and she is so excited about it.

Voice Technology During the Pandemic

  • She’s liked how the voice community has come together to talk about the response to COVID-19 and the role that voice is playing in it.
  • Digital health is currently coming together with the use of telemedicine, voice technologies, and AI in healthcare. She believes it’s going to be a new world after the pandemic.

Using Telemedicine

  • Teri has been using telemedicine while working from home.
  • He has come across some limitations like when he has to examine a patient can’t because they're in different locations, so they have to make some kind of plan to deal with that. The patients seem to love the telemedicine because it’s so convenient.
  • Bianca feels it’s time to move into the 21st century and utilize digital health. She has noted that there are a lot of studies being done to look into telemedicine and how it works in different contexts. There are more than 30,000 research papers and people are using that research especially during the current crisis.

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