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Hi everyone.Are you one of the millions of people who's now using a health monitoring device, you know, like a blood pressure or glucose monitor? Well, that's just one facet of the digital health care space… and there are so many others. Now what's really exciting is that digital health care offers a huge number of opportunities, spanning everything from the use of high-tech tools to new communications approaches… all of which are designed to improve the health of patients and the overall population. My guest today, Neal Sofian, is an expert on the digital health care space. On this episode, Neal discusses such things as (1) the evolution of digital technology in health care, (2) what he sees as the next phase in the use of digital technology to address health care issues, (3) the role of motivation and personalization in getting people to make changes in their health care behavior, and (4) some differences in how the U.S. health care system operates vs. other industrialized nations.Of particular importance, Neal lays out numerous opportunities he sees presenting themselves as the use of digital health evolves. This involves not only AI-related opportunities, but many others, too. Neal then provides some excellent tips for those who want to pursue these opportunities.Now a bit about Neal: Neal Sofian is recognized nationally for over 40 years of innovation in population-based and corporate health management and engagement. Neal is currently the CEO of Tuzag, Inc., a relationship AI, omni-channel health concierge company. Their AI-driven SaaS platform delivers one-to-one longitudinal computer mediated conversations, content, and service offerings with a focus on building relationships to change consumer behavior, across any communication channel. Previously, Neal commercialized the first and largest telephonic smoking cessation coaching program in the United States, Free & Clear, and the first telephonic diabetes coaching service in the US. He was responsible for early health-related social networking platforms, including the American Cancer Society's Cancer Survivors Network. To learn more about Tuzag, visit https://wearetuzag.com/ and https://clarahelps.com/ You can also reach Neal on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-sofian/I'd like to tell you about a new and exciting podcasting opportunity! It's with DeepCast Pro, a game-changing platform I just started using for "Looking Forward." It's a free suite of tools designed to help podcasters grow your audience and engage listeners more deeply.With DeepCast Pro, you get speaker-labeled transcripts and AI-powered insights for each episode, absolutely free. The DeepCast Pro motto is "You make the shows, let us help you with what comes after."Join me by visiting DeepCast.pro today. It's free to start, so what are you waiting for?I invite you to LISTEN, ENJOY, LEARN, LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE this episode! NOTE: We may include your comment with attribution, of course, on our website. And please subscribe to Looking Forward®: Opportunities for Job, Career, Business, and Investment Seekers, too! https://www.podchaser.com/LookingForwardOpportunitiesForJobCareerBusinessAndInvestmentSeekersIf you are interested in sponsoring 3 episodes of Looking Forward-- or distributing our content-- please let us know. (Give a listen to what I have to say...

Host Fred Goldstein convenes a roundtable featuring Douglas Goldstein, Managing Director, Salt Flats Capital, Neal Sofian, CEO, Tuzag, Inc., and Dr. Nick Van Terheyden, 'The Incrementalist', Principal, ECG Management Consultants. They discuss their impressions at the HLTH conference and key takeaways. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

https://make-your-pitch.com The Co-Sponsor for this Episode is B.E.T. A business platform that gives you all the information and tools you need to advance your business as well as the understanding of how to run your business most effectively and profitably. To learn more check out the: Video: https://bit.ly/368rSKk Website: www.yvrbet.com The Co-Sponsor for this episode is CRM Engine. A Customer Relation Management system that provides a 4 Module Solution, Standard Customization by the CRM Engine Team, Unlimited Users, Unlimited Data, Unlimited Records, Cloud Hosting, Security Updates, and Daily Backups as well as On-Going support (Usually Same Day) Go Here to Learn More: Website: CRMEngine.co.uk/makeyourpitch Neal Sofian CEO at Tuzag Inc Neal Sofian is CEO at Tuzag Inc is a public health professional interested in how to use technology to help people manage their health better. Consumer behavior drives 50% of all health care costs. How we take ownership of managing ourselves a little better. Now with shiny objects but with tools that help us manage our health better, reduce costs and lead healthier lives. Adults are always trying to find the next shiny object, the next gadget that appears to offer a panacea result. Neal says the logical use of technology can make a difference in how we take ownership of ourselves and our behavior. Neal asks the question, how can we reach the consumer and help them take better care of themselves at different stages of life? The sad truth is, consumers are looking for the next big thing, the next ‘gogar' or gadget that will extend life for 150 years. Certainly an unrealistic expectation. Neal and his company, Tuzag, Inc, have taken significant pains to transform an existing technology into one that can develop into a life-changing, behavioral modification tool to help people think more clearly about their daily existence. If consumer behavior drives 50% of health care costs, that translates into a trillion and a half dollars spent annually on health care. Imagine the net savings that are possible with training on how to take care of yourself better, how to observe your behavior and modify useless movement and other things we do every day that taken as a whole can contribute to significant savings in what we spend on medical care annually. Neal gives an insightful demonstration around the technology uses in simple statements that encourage machine learning and deep technology referencing vast repositories of data that can be called up through technology to create meaningful connections between the machine and human learning. This includes taking better care of ourselves, aging in place, taking better care of aging parents. Using his device name Alexis, Neal demonstrates how neural pathways are developed in humans and how the technology can call up relevant data through conversation with the human subject. Built on Artificial Intelligence, we can expect to see and experience changes in how we live and interact with machines. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence AI Alexa Health Care Aging in Place Aging Care for aging Neural pathways Neural channels Technology Tuzag Inc

In this episode, we are privileged to host Neal Sofian, the CEO of Tuzag, a conversational AI Omnichannel health concierge company. Their platform delivers one to one ongoing computer-mediated conversations, content, and service offerings across any communication channel, driving exponentially greater consumer behavior change. Neal talks about the need for true consumer-centrism in health. He also discusses how his company leverages technology to learn about individuals and create tailored interactions that can create relationships leading to behavior change. He shares about gender-fluid "Jamie", successes his company has seen, and the big challenges we are facing in health care. Neal's company is redefining the concept of consumer-focused healthcare, and his insights are truly fascinating. Please tune in and enjoy my interview with Neal Sofian. Click this link for the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

“There’s got to be more meaning and more passion into the traditional tech pitching. Host Karin Thorne and guest host Max Matthews continue their chat with Seth Mulligan about tech pitching, how the Syracuse tech community has changed, and where they see it heading in the future. Seth also answers a Salt City Code favorite question when he shares his idea for a tech Meetup. Connect with Seth http://sethmulligan.brandyourself.com/ | StorySlab (https://www.storyslab.com/) | LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/sethmulligan/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/SyracuseSeth) Music This episode features "Brain Power" by Mela (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mela/Mela_two) from the album Mela two. Follow Karin kethorne.com (http://www.kethorne.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaythorne) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/karin_thorne/) | E-mail (mailto:contact@kethorne.com) JSWebb Development, LLC jswebbdevelopment.com (https://jswebbdevelopment.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/JSWebb_Dev) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jswebbdev/) | E-mail (mailto:jswebbdevelopment@gmail.com) Follow Max maxmatthe.ws (https://maxmatthe.ws) | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxzmatthews/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/@teckno101) | Medium (https://medium.maxmatthe.ws/) | Tuzag (https://wearetuzag.com/) Follow Salt City Code Twitter (https://twitter.com/saltcitycode) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/saltcitycode/) | E-mail (mailto:saltcitycode@gmail.com) --- Special Guest: Seth Mulligan.

Modeling a venture is related but, certainly a different discipline than inventing or creating it or coding it or improving it. Host Karin Thorne and special Guest Host Max Matthews chat with Seth Mulligan of StorySlab about smart networking, what it's like to model a venture, and where he sees Syracuse heading in the future. Connect with Seth http://sethmulligan.brandyourself.com/ | StorySlab (https://www.storyslab.com/) | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethmulligan/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/SyracuseSeth) Music This episode features "Brain Power" by Mela (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mela/Mela_two) from the album Mela two. Follow Karin kethorne.com (http://www.kethorne.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaythorne) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/karin_thorne/) | E-mail (mailto:contact@kethorne.com) JSWebb Development, LLC jswebbdevelopment.com (https://jswebbdevelopment.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/JSWebb_Dev) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jswebbdev/) | E-mail (mailto:jswebbdevelopment@gmail.com) Follow Max maxmatthe.ws (https://maxmatthe.ws) | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxzmatthews/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/@teckno101) | Medium (https://medium.maxmatthe.ws/) | Tuzag (https://wearetuzag.com/) Follow Salt City Code Twitter (https://twitter.com/saltcitycode) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/saltcitycode/) | E-mail (mailto:saltcitycode@gmail.com) --- Special Guest: Seth Mulligan.

My big advice is...work backwards. Because it's so easy to learn all these tiny little concepts in programming. And it's cool and you're excited while you're doing it but at the end of the day, it's not an end result. And so, my big advice is have your end goal. Figure out where you want to end up and then work your way backwards from there. Hosts Karin Thorne and Kelly Corey continue their conversation with Max Matthews and take a deeper dive into his experiences teaching at Start Fast Code and Careers in Code. Max shares his advice for someone looking to get started in programming and how to find a mentor to help along the way. This episode is part IV of our series: Catching Up with Careers in Code! We chat with founders, instructors/TAs, and students of the first CiC cohort about their experience and where they'd like to see the program go in the future. Connect with Max maxmatthe.ws (https://maxmatthe.ws) | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxzmatthews/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/@teckno101) | Medium (https://medium.maxmatthe.ws/) | Tuzag (https://wearetuzag.com/) Mentorship Are you looking for a mentor to help improve your skills as a developer? Fill out the Contact form at maxmatthe.ws (https://maxmatthe.ws/) and Max will be happy to chat with you! Music This episode features "Brain Power" by Mela (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mela/Mela_two) from the album Mela two. Follow Karin kethorne.com (http://www.kethorne.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaythorne) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/karin_thorne/) | E-mail (mailto:contact@kethorne.com) JSWebb Development, LLC jswebbdevelopment.com (https://jswebbdevelopment.com/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/JSWebb_Dev) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jswebbdev/) | E-mail (mailto:jswebbdevelopment@gmail.com) Follow Kelly kell.dev (https://kell.dev/) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kellytoearth) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kellytoearth/) | E-mail (mailto:hello@kell.dev) Follow Salt City Code Twitter (https://twitter.com/saltcitycode) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/saltcitycode/) | E-mail (mailto:saltcitycode@gmail.com) --- Special Guest: Max Matthews.

Peek into a random hospital room in the U.S. today, and you might see something that makes you cynical about technology. The classic scene is of a provider talking with a patient as they face the opposite direction and take detailed notes on a computer. In other words, the patient's only face-time with their doctor is spent staring at the back of his or her neck. Beyond the loss of human interaction, the long hours spent entering these notes at the end of the day have placed a well-documented burden on clinicians, leading to elevated rates of burnout, depression and suicide. "The average clinician spends two to three hours at night, after hours doing mundane data entry work. We've turned physicians into the highest paying data entry people in the planet," said Ryan Plasch, vice president of growth and strategy at Saykara, a startup that makes a voice assistant for clinicians. On the latest episode GeekWire Health Tech podcast, we have the second episode in a two-part series on the rise of voice assistants in healthcare. We'll hear from Saykara and Tuzag, two Seattle-area startups that are creating a future where voice assistants make healthcare more human by freeing doctors from their keyboards and even forming relationships with patients. 

Neal Sofian Neal Sofian leads a company that builds conversation bots for the health-care industry. Using algorithms, machine learning, and contextual storytelling, they create complex, customized content on the fly to help people change their health behavior. Neal and I talked about: conversational AI and how conversation bots can create conversations and build relationships how technology that permits the creation of unique compelling content helps people change their behavior their "Mad Libs" model for creating conversational content on the fly the differences between machine learning and AI and how natural language processing relates to these technologies how his background in public health leads to a people-first, behavior-first approach to the tech solutions he works on how establishing conversational context - with concepts like the "vulnerability index," like information about relationships, etc. - drives the tone of the content they deliver the importance of starting conversations by asking questions how his service adds an "engagement layer," making them the concierge that helps you find the info you need to solve your problem - smoking cessation, for example how they protect the privacy of users by giving control of their information to the consumer how some medical content has been diluted by focusing on compliance with HIPAA and other standards, which reduces opportunities to create interesting, compelling content Jamie, their gender-fluid bot whose personality can be programmed to be like your mom, a drill sergeant, coach, mentor, BFF, and whose vocabulary, patience, and how other voice and style choices can be customized for the context how establishing context enables content creators to use vocabulary and deliver content that is appropriate for the exact situation the reader is in how writing to one generic reading level is a relic of old mass communication - now we have "segments of one" with the customization that is possible how storytelling with a narrative customized to the user's needs is superior to generic advice like, "You need to exercise. Here's why." how the conversation itself provides the permission mechanism they need to include third-party information in the profiles from which they derive the context of the conversation the ongoing need for good writers to create compelling content for their "Mad Libs" how to go from "pushing information to creating a conversation and a relationship" "Always start with people." Neal's Bio Neal Sofian is the CEO of tuzag, Inc., a digital, conversational AI health company that has built an "infinite" tailored-content & engagement platform, using conversational AI to drive exponentially greater consumer behavior change. Previously Neal was the Director of Member Engagement at Premera Blue Cross where he was responsible for development strategies to engage the 2.2 million members of Premera in reaching their optimal health. Neal is a noted author and speaker and continues to be acknowledged as one of the true innovators in the world of health behavior change., and the role of personalization and social networking. Neal holds a master's degree in public health from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He is also a working potter/sculpture and has done stand-up comedy in a vaudeville show. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/prCO94A9PMg Transcript Larry: Hi everyone. Welcome to episode number 39 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Neal Sofian. Neal is the CEO of Tuzag, which is a really interesting company that helps folks do behavior change in the healthcare field. One of the online ... I think the website says they do hyper-personalized content and interactive storytelling to promote health. Is that accurate, Neal? Neal: Yeah, I think it might grow a little bit. You'd almost say now,

Neal Sofian Neal Sofian leads a company that builds conversation bots for the health-care industry. Using algorithms, machine learning, and contextual storytelling, they create complex, customized content on the fly to help people change their health behavior. Neal and I talked about: conversational AI and how conversation bots can create conversations and build relationships how technology that permits the creation of unique compelling content helps people change their behavior their "Mad Libs" model for creating conversational content on the fly the differences between machine learning and AI and how natural language processing relates to these technologies how his background in public health leads to a people-first, behavior-first approach to the tech solutions he works on how establishing conversational context - with concepts like the "vulnerability index," like information about relationships, etc. - drives the tone of the content they deliver the importance of starting conversations by asking questions how his service adds an "engagement layer," making them the concierge that helps you find the info you need to solve your problem - smoking cessation, for example how they protect the privacy of users by giving control of their information to the consumer how some medical content has been diluted by focusing on compliance with HIPAA and other standards, which reduces opportunities to create interesting, compelling content Jamie, their gender-fluid bot whose personality can be programmed to be like your mom, a drill sergeant, coach, mentor, BFF, and whose vocabulary, patience, and how other voice and style choices can be customized for the context how establishing context enables content creators to use vocabulary and deliver content that is appropriate for the exact situation the reader is in how writing to one generic reading level is a relic of old mass communication - now we have "segments of one" with the customization that is possible how storytelling with a narrative customized to the user's needs is superior to generic advice like, "You need to exercise. Here's why." how the conversation itself provides the permission mechanism they need to include third-party information in the profiles from which they derive the context of the conversation the ongoing need for good writers to create compelling content for their "Mad Libs" how to go from "pushing information to creating a conversation and a relationship" "Always start with people." Neal's Bio Neal Sofian is the CEO of tuzag, Inc., a digital, conversational AI health company that has built an "infinite" tailored-content & engagement platform, using conversational AI to drive exponentially greater consumer behavior change. Previously Neal was the Director of Member Engagement at Premera Blue Cross where he was responsible for development strategies to engage the 2.2 million members of Premera in reaching their optimal health. Neal is a noted author and speaker and continues to be acknowledged as one of the true innovators in the world of health behavior change., and the role of personalization and social networking. Neal holds a master's degree in public health from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He is also a working potter/sculpture and has done stand-up comedy in a vaudeville show. Video Here’s the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/prCO94A9PMg Transcript Larry: Hi everyone. Welcome to episode number 39 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Neal Sofian. Neal is the CEO of Tuzag, which is a really interesting company that helps folks do behavior change in the healthcare field. One of the online ... I think the website says they do hyper-personalized content and interactive storytelling to promote health. Is that accurate, Neal? Neal: Yeah, I think it might grow a little bit. You'd almost say now,