Build and Deploy with Liz Moy

In this episode we explore how health systems are using technology to solve the personnel and distribution problems for vaccinating individuals during a global pandemic. We talk to Susan Lucas Collins, head of global health at Twilio, Charlie Weems, principal solutions engineer for Twilio.org, and Steven Lewis, president of RoboRecruiter.

In this episode about telemedicine and underserved communities we'll be talking to Susan Collins, head of global health at Twilio, Ben Jealous, civil rights leader, social impact investor, and former president and CEO of the NAACP, and Jeff Gamble, co-founder and CTO at Rezilient, about how technology can better serve underserved communities.

 How can we design medical software for the best patient and provider experience? In this episode, we'll talk to Susan Collins, Kanav Jain, and Tim Peck on what works and what doesn't work when it comes to designing for telemedicine.

Historically medical transcription has been a provider-focused manual process (just ask my mom, who has been a medical transcriptionist for 40 years). Today, can providing machine learning enhanced transcription create better conversations between healthcare providers and patients? In this episode I talk to Sandeep Konam, CTO of Abridge, about how they're building technology to help patients stay on top of their health.

In this episode we talk to David Kerwar, CPO of Mt Sinai about building a custom telemedicine platform from the ground up and later we talk to Product Manager Donal Toomey about the Twilio Video API and how it’s being adapted for the changing needs of health care providers.

In this episode we talk to Dr. Erica Lawson (UCSF), Jeff Lawson (Twilio), Susan Lucas Collins (Twilio) and Dr. Timothy Peck (Curve Health and IDEO) about the technological and political changes that happened overnight to deliver telemedicine in response to a global pandemic. We dive into what software developers and designers working in this space can do to change the future of healthcare technology.

In this season of Build and Deploy we look at how COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine through the eyes of technologists building the future of telehealth.

If you're the type of person who takes screenshots to document everything, Omar Rizwan built Screenotate for you. It's a screen capture tool that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to identify the text in the screenshot. Any text inside the image becomes searchable, including source URL, application, and window title.

April Speight is a Microsoft Sr. Cloud Advocate on the Spatial Computing technology team at Microsoft, author of Bite-Size Python: An Introduction to Python Programming, and a stylist. In this episode we talk about a game prototype she's been working on for HoloLens 2. 

Sy Brand is a programmer and C++ enthusiast who curates code::art journal, a collection of code-as-art. They share their motivation behind its development and some of the standout pieces submitted thus far.

Maayan Albert is a creative technologist and software engineer who built a visual programming environment taking inspiration from artboards in graphic design software. In this episode we talk about the motivation and process behind making, Stamper an alternative editor for p5.js.

Julia Evans is a programmer and author who creates delightful zines about computers called Wizard Zines. Her latest issue focuses on containers, so we chatted about important concepts around containers, and how she decides what goes into a zine. You can purchase her zines at wizardzines.com.

Functional programming enthusiast Vaibhav Sagar uses Haskell in his day job, but likes to write it for fun projects, too. In this episode, we talk about a project he spun up to get Haskell running in the browser using Reflex platform and deploying to Glitch.

Danielle Baskin is a product designer, situation designer, visual artist, and the CEO of Dialup, a voice-based social network that connects people serendipitously in phone calls. We talked about a project she recently launched called PartyLine, an experience that pairs you in a voice-chat with someone in any state to have a conversation about political topics.

Char Stiles and Chirag Davé are artists and livecoders who use code to make real-time music and visuals at events called algoraves. The two creators talk about making CARL, an augmented reality app that algoravers can use to become immersed in the experience.

Jeremy is one of the co-founders of programming education not-for-profit Exercism.io, which offers a free open-source learning platform with thousands of exercises spread across over 50 language tracks — including automated and human mentoring. We talked about the importance of mentoring in the learning process and why he wants to write his own programming language (and everything in-between).

Christine Sunu is a maker who designs and builds technology with emotive, human-centered interfaces. We talked about fuzzy lifelike critter robots she's built, a breadbot that's a fitness tracker for your sourdough starter, and much much more. Check out how to build your own breadbot at sourd.io

Nicole He is a Brooklyn-based game developer and creative technologist who uses code to write voice-controlled programs and other fun, weird games and experiences. Liz chats with her about a guide she wrote to teach others how to build a SMS bot using Google Sheets and Twilio in about 30 minutes with no coding required. Try it at sms-bot.info

Build and Deploy with Liz Moy is a curiosity-driven podcast that looks at the creative people who make stuff with code and shares their processes behind projects.