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All experts agree: if there's one sector that AI will transform, it's healthcare.
Whether it's understanding pathologies, developing personalized treatments, the doctor-patient relationship, diagnostic methods, or creating tools to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals, everything is affected by the ongoing transformation!
This revolution raises many expectations and questions about the real impact these new technologies will have on tomorrow's medicine.
One of the leading figures in this movement on the international scene is none other than the French-American company Owkin, which aims to be "the first end-to-end AI biotech company," whose R&D activities are overseen by Jean-Philippe Vert, himself a true pioneer in the field of machine learning and computational biology.
The first “AI-first” biotech company of its kind, bringing a breath of fresh air to an industry known for being extremely costly and time-consuming.
So how does AI accelerate the development of new therapies?
What is its role in identifying new molecules and targets?
How can it be used to create new diagnostic tools?
Can we leverage patient data without compromising their safety and privacy?
And what can we expect from future models and their impact on our understanding of biology?
These are all fascinating questions that Jean-Philippe breaks down with pedagogy and realism, shedding light on one of the most exciting fields of medicine in this era!
Timeline:
04:21 - Jean-Philippe’s background at the interface of mathematics, computer science, and life sciences
07:10 - Owkin’s mission to become the first end-to-end AI biotech firm
09:48 - Leveraging AI for drug discovery and new treatment modalities
14:35 - Selecting target indications and therapeutic areas
17:13 - Changing the way we run clinical trials through AI
22:03 - Unlocking patient data across hospitals while preserving safety and privacy
25:40 - Developing AI-based diagnostics and driving clinical adoption
34:50 - Towards the first AI foundation model to understand biology
What we also talked about with Jean-Philippe
Google DeepMind
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Digital twins
External control arms
Federated learning
Digital pathology
MSIntuit CRC
Bioptimus
Neural networks
As mentioned by Jean-Philippe during the episode, we recommend taking a look at Owkin and Bioptimus websites as well as their respective Publications & News section to learn more about their technology and stay posted on their latest activities.
If you are a data scientist or machine learning enthusiast, you can tackle one of the many biology-related challenges proposed by Kaggle on their platform.
To learn more about Owkin’s portfolio and the diversity of biomarkers and health conditions they cover, take a look at their Pipeline section.
You can follow Owkin’s activities on LinkedIn, X, and YouTube, and Bioptimus on LinkedIn and X.
To get in touch with Jean-Philippe, contact him over LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
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Among pioneering companies in connected health devices, few have been as forward-thinking as Withings, a flagship of French technology.
Their first connected scales date back to 2009 (when smartphones were still emerging!) and remain the industry standard today.
For that time, it was a subtle blend combining sleek design, intuitive user experience, and medical precision.
A formula that Withings has successfully applied and developed in many other areas, from smartwatches to sleep sensors, thermometers, blood pressure monitors, or even a urinalysis device for your toilet!
Their portfolio covers a wide range of medical parameters and helps hundreds of thousands of individuals manage their health daily.
Matthieu Menanteau is one of the minds behind Withings' creations over the past 8 years.
In this highly insightful episode, he shares Withings' philosophy and approach to creating the ultimate connected health experience, one that allows everyone to better understand themselves and take control of their health journey.
We discuss:
Withings' philosophy to innovate successfully in today's connected health sector
Three development pillars that form the essence of Withings products
The ongoing integration of consumer health with health systems and telemedicine
The power of continuous medical data in the age of AI and big data
A conversation that brings new perspectives on the future of connected health, and how technology can integrate into our daily lives to guide us toward healthier behaviors!
Timeline:
03:45 - Withings’ origins and vision for connected health
07:18 - Providing the ultimate health companion
10:03 - Biomarkers and indications covered by Withings
13:11 - A home urinalysis laboratory
17:44 - Bringing the medical check-up at home
21:11 - A dual approach to driving innovation in connected health
26:20 - Towards an overwhelming mass of connected health devices?
31:47 - Withings’ three pillars of product development
38:05 - The role of AI in creating the ultimate connected health experience
What we also talked about with Matthieu:
Type 2 diabetes
Lean mass
Visceral fat
Hydration
pH
Vitamin C
Ketones
Oxygen saturation
Cuffless blood pressure measurement
Apple
CE mark
FDA
Edge computing
Doctolib
Alan
CES
We cited with Matthieu some of the past episodes of the series:
#21 - Transforming hypertension care with a bracelet - Jay Shah - Aktiia
#23 - Disrupting the smart wearables industry - Leo Grünstein - Spiden
As mentioned by Matthieu during the episode, we recommend taking a look at the Research section of the Withings website, to learn more about current and future publications surrounding their products.
To learn more about their portfolio and the diversity of biomarkers and health conditions they cover, take a look at their Products section.
You can follow Withings’ activities on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube, and get in touch with Matthieu via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Medical biology and laboratories play an essential role in any health system.
No wonder 70 to 80% of all medical decisions are based on laboratory test results.
But even within the most advanced healthcare systems, the communication and analysis of lab data remain archaic.
Processing times can be lengthy, even after the analysis is completed.
Results are expressed as "out of range" or "in range", without complementary or actionable information.
An experience still far from current technological standards, and a gap that Alexandre Guenoun and his team at Kiro intend to solve by redefining our experience of medical biology!
Through faster and more personalized results for patients.
With a suite of integrated clinical decision support tools for healthcare professionals.
And a longitudinal database to accelerate biomedical research.
A key service of any health system, at a turning point in France and beyond.
We talk with Alexandre about:
The importance of engaging each individual in their health journey
The shift from disease-centered medicine to service-centered
The Kiro experience for patients and healthcare professionals
The role of technology in matching healthcare demand and supply
The criticality of change management in healthcare innovation
A key episode to understand the future of medical biology!
Timeline:
02:57 - What drew Alexandre to healthcare and entrepreneurship
08:41 - How technology can make clinical biology smarter and more personalized
11:24 - The Kiro experience for patients and healthcare professionals
24:56 - Interpreting medical biology data with AI
28:16 - Matching demand and supply in health systems
31:01 - Scaling Kiro in Europe and beyond
34:01 - Leading change management with healthcare professionals
What we also talked about with Alexandre:
ZEBRA MEDICAL
ESSEC Business School
UC Berkeley
Agoranov
GPT-4o
Sacha Loiseau
This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Health.Tech, the heartbeat of healthtech!
As mentioned by Alexandre during the episode, you can have a look at Kiro’s Product page to understand better their technology and stay posted on their latest progress. Alexandre also recommends reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz.
You can follow Kiro's activities on LinkedIn and get in touch with Alexandre via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Can the attention economy be harnessed to serve health?
Paradoxical as it may seem, this is the thesis of Tryggvi Thorgeirsson and his team at Sidekick Health.
As a medical doctor trained in Iceland in the 2000s, Tryggvi experienced rural medicine firsthand and what working as a general practitioner in a remote setting means.
And he quickly found himself confronted with the limitations posed by the healthcare system at the time:
Prescribing medications at the expense of other therapies where patients are guided toward healthier behaviors.
The silos and impossibility of establishing a care plan that simultaneously takes into account multiple conditions.
A purely reactive approach based on a brick-and-mortar model running out of steam.
The emergence of smartphones and their potential as health companions became obvious to him.
Based on this intuition, he co-founded Sidekick Health alongside his fellow physician and colleague Saemundur Oddsson.
The company is now one of the leaders in digital therapeutics, offering a vast portfolio of therapies accessible from each patient's pocket, prescribed by thousands of doctors in Europe and the US.
We talk with Tryggvi about the principles behind how these digital therapies work, how attention levers can be used to support long-term behavior change, and the growing impact these solutions have on individuals and healthcare systems.
In the era of social media and the mental plague they represent, this episode brings a refreshing perspective on how dopamine can be used to put the health of individuals back in their own hands.
Timeline:
02:35 - Tryggvi’s background as a medical doctor and electrical engineer
04:05 - What felt missing in Tryggvi’s rural medical practice
07:14 - Seeing early the potential of smartphones for healthcare
11:08 - Tryggvi’s definition of digital therapeutics
13:44 - The impact of digital therapeutics on clinical outcomes and cost of care
16:44 - Driving behavioral change and medical education through timely bite-sized pieces and gamification
18:40 - Sidekick Health’s approach to designing tailored and impactful digital health programs across multiple conditions
27:46 - Putting AI at the center of digital health programs and their usage
30:13 - Tryggvi’s vision for the future of healthcare
What we also talked about with Tryggvi:
PINK!
Prof. Pia Wülfing
Pear Therapeutics
Daniel Kahneman
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
We cited with Tryggvi some of the past episodes of the series:
#7 - Redefining motor rehabilitation with digital neurotherapeutics - Naveed Ejaz - MindMaze
#17 - Coaching as the key to a better health - Eugene Borukhovich - YourCoach.Health
#30 - Building the Shopify of digital health - Dan Vahdat - Huma
As mentioned by Tryggvi during the episode, we recommend reading Exits & Outcomes by Brian Dolan as well as Second Opinion by Christina Farr, two newsletters that will keep you posted on the latest in digital health.
To dive further into the programs and use cases around Sidekick Health’s technology, take a look at their website.
You can follow Sidekick Health’s activities on LinkedIn and X, and get in touch with Tryggvi via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Making healthcare preventive and better able to catch serious conditions earlier is a recurring topic for governments, health systems, and ultimately patients.
As healthcare resources become scarce while chronic conditions and their burden on society grow larger, a preventive and more proactive approach to healthcare is undoubtedly part of the solution.
There are many ways to go about it, with one emerging trend over the past few years focusing on holistic check-ups, providing a large set of scans, biological assays, and complimentary exams all at once on the same day, helping to give a broad snapshot of one’s health status.
One approach that has triggered debate within the medical community focuses on full-body MRI scans delivered to individuals who can afford it, as the ultimate disease prevention tool.
A detailed view of the inside of one’s body, based on one of the most widely used medical imaging methods.
Some criticize the lack of evidence around the true benefits these scans bring to patients and health systems, pointing to the high price charged for them.
Others testify to the diagnostic help these scans offer, lifting the veil on previously unexplained patient cases, and highlighting the possibility of taking action long before certain symptoms are expressed.
One way or another, these reactions reflect an approach to medical screening that challenges traditional practices and raises questions.
In this episode with the Founder and CEO of Prenuvo, Andrew Lacy addresses the main questions raised by this practice, offering new perspectives on how to apprehend these scans as a medical analysis tool, how they can complement existing care practices, and the complexity linked to the evaluation of the impact that these scans can have on health systems.
An eye-opening conversation on what might constitute a part of future preventive healthcare!
Timeline:
00:02:47 - Andrew’s background as a serial tech entrepreneur and his move into healthcare
00:04:15 - The idea behind Prenuvo and full-body scans as an early medical screening method
00:06:49 - What the Prenuvo experience looks like compared to a typical medical check-up
00:10:11 - The Prenuvo scanner and what it can see inside the body
00:14:41 - Can Prenuvo scans diagnose certain conditions?
00:18:44 - For whom are these scans for?
00:21:35 - Building the case for full-body MRI scans benefits toward health systems
00:25:39 - Making full-body MRI scans more affordable
00:27:30 - How Prenuvo leverages AI throughout its operations
00:30:21 - Empowering patients to drive long-term behavioral change
00:34:43 - Prenuvo’s plans for geographic expansion and growth
What we also talked about with Andrew:
Dr. Raj Attariwala
This episode was made possible with the support of HLTH Europe!
As mentioned by Andrew during the episode, we recommend taking a look at the Research section of Prenuvo’s website, to be informed about the latest in multi-parametric MRI studies and its applications across multiple disease areas. You can also find out more on PubMed for further studies on these topics.
To dive further into the technology behind Prenuvo’s scans, head out to The Scan section of their website.
You can follow Prenuvo’s activities on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X, and get in touch with Andrew via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Modernizing surgery by making it smarter, safer, and more predictive.
This is the mission of Björn Von Siemens and his team at Caresyntax.
By developing a platform that integrates into hospitals’ infrastructures and leveraging their data flows throughout the planning, execution, and follow-up of surgeries, the company has established itself as a leader in connected surgery.
Their impact on health systems worldwide is massive and continues to grow at pace:
+3000 equipped operating rooms
+30,000 surgical teams served
+3 million surgeries assisted each year
In a world where healthcare resources are growing scarce and where access to surgery is highly unequal, Caresyntax aims to be one of those enabling a profound change in medicine at scale, for the benefit of patients, healthcare professionals, and hospitals.
By helping them optimize the use of operating rooms, staffing, and costs.
By providing video oversight and intelligence for each operation performed, tracking every step of their execution.
By enabling continuous improvement of medical teams and surgeons through detailed case reviews.
In this fascinating episode, we delve into the world of cutting-edge surgery in the era of robotics, AI, and automation.
Björn opens up about the inside story of this unique healthtech entrepreneurial adventure, revealing the challenges and successes that have made Caresyntax a pillar of modern surgery!
Timeline:
00:02:45 - Bjoern’s story as an aspiring surgeon who shifted toward healthcare entrepreneurship
00:08:14 - The idea behind Caresyntax and solving major needs for surgery
00:14:16 - The functioning of Caresyntax’s platform
00:18:07 - Helping surgeons get better at what they do
00:26:45 - Giving transparency to hospitals on their operations and opportunities for improvement
00:31:55 - The role of AI in Caresyntax’s platform
00:34:44 - Helping hospitals fight the burn-out crisis
00:39:08 - Setting the right expectations from patients prior to surgery
00:42:39 - What excites Björn for the future of surgery
What we also talked about with Björn:
Quantum Surgical
Intuitive Surgical
Radical prostatectomy
Total knee arthroplasty
Neuralink
General Catalyst
We cited with Björn some of the past episodes of the series:
#2 - Treating liver cancer with surgical robotics - Lucien Blondel - Quantum Surgical
This episode was made possible with the support of HLTH Europe!
As mentioned by Björn during the episode, we recommend reading The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande.
To dive further into the applications and use cases around Caresyntax’s platform for surgery, take a look at the Resources section of their website.
You can follow Caresyntax’s activities on LinkedIn and X, and get in touch with Björn via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Leaving your surgical training to create a healthcare conference from scratch...
...On an island of 300 km² in the middle of the Mediterranean!
This is the crazy bet that Dylan Attard took 5 years ago by founding MedTech World.
From its first online conference held in 2020 in the midst of COVID-19 to its early roadshows around the world two years later, the annual Maltese event led by Dylan and his team has now established itself as a must on the global healthtech scene!
Far from traditional trade shows sponsored by industry giants, MedTech World aims to be a platform to accelerate healthcare innovation by fostering an intimate connection between entrepreneurs, investors, HCPs, and industry professionals.
This year, more than 2000 participants will gather at the Mediterranean Conference Center (a building built as a hospital in the 16th century!), including more than 300 startups, 100 investors, and 200 partners.
So how do we plan such an event?
How to curate its content to create value for its participants and partners?
What does it take to build a strong community centered on medical innovation?
And how to differentiate yourself from other global conferences?
In this Masterclass on healthcare event management, Dylan unveils the keys to MedTech World's success and many more reasons to join in in Malta in November this year!
Timeline:
00:02:36 - Dylan’s background from surgery trainee to founding a global conference
00:06:12 - Mutual benefits of having a medical background and being an entrepreneur
0009:03 - The idea behind MedTech World
00:16:01 - Attractivity of Malta as a medical technology hub
00:18:20 - Expanding MedTech World’s reach beyond Malta
00:20:51 - Shaping the conference program and curating the highest quality content
00:27:17 - Trends and emerging technologies in MedTech worth following
0029:36 - Dylan’s advice on making a career change from medical professional to entrepreneur
What we also talked about with Dylan:
Malta Medical Students’ Association
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
We mentioned with Dylan some of the past episodes of the series:
#2 - Treating liver cancer with surgical robotics - Lucien Blondel
This episode was made possible with the support of MedTech World!
As Dylan mentioned during the episode, you can learn more about the different events that MedTech World hosts throughout the year on their official website.
To register for the conference in Malta, click here and use the code MTWMaltaMathieuChaffard150OFF to get 150€ off your attendance ticket!
You can follow MedTech World’s activities on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram, and contact Dylan via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, reach out via LinkedIn or email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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AI and computational science are revolutionizing the biotechnology sector.
From identifying new therapeutic approaches to their production and accelerating the administrative processes for bringing them to market, the entire value chain of this sector is impacted!
These recent advancements have given rise to a new field in the industry: TechBio.
But what lies behind this futuristic term?
And how exactly do these technologies accelerate the development and introduction of new treatments?
These two questions are at the heart of this episode featuring Mati Gill from AION Labs.
With a background in law and in the pharmaceutical industry, Mati is the CEO of this venture builder focused on this emerging field, at the cutting edge of computer science and biology.
A true startup factory for TechBio, formed around partnerships with the world's largest Tech and Biotechnology companies.
Unlike conventional innovation platforms such as incubators or startup accelerators, AION Labs enables Founders to accelerate the development of their companies through a holistic range of services and tools:
Anchoring the startup’s mission around a clear R&D issue identified by industrial partners
Funding new ventures at the pre-seed or seed stage
Assisting Founders in identifying and recruiting talent
Providing the infrastructure and resources necessary for co-developing new solutions with industrial partners
A masterclass on innovation in TechBio and what this industry will change for health and patients soon!
Timeline:
00:02:43 - Mati’s background from studying law to entering the TechBio field
00:07:00 - A new way to discover medical treatments and drugs
00:12:42 - The current impact of TechBio on the pharmaceutical industry
00:15:58 - The attitude of regulators toward TechBio and how they adapt to it
00:19:00 - Breaking down fantasies around TechBio and its promises
00:23:54 - AION Lab’s operating model and how to build the next TechBio success
00:34:06 - Relationships and investments between startups and partners from AION Labs
00:41:30 - Advice for TechBio enthusiasts and future entrepreneurs in the field
What we also talked about with Mati:
Sharon Kredo-Russo
Nature’s article on AI’s potential to accelerate drug discovery (from October 2023)
FDA
EMA
DenovAI Biotech
Kashif Sadiq
PromiseBio
Prof. Yifat Merbl
We cited with Mati some of the past episodes of the series:
#8 - Using organoids to transform drug discovery - Nikolce Gjorevski - Roche
This episode was made possible with the support of HLTH Europe!
As Mati mentioned during the episode, you can learn more about the latest in TechBio through Christian Tidona’s work with Biomed X.
You can follow AION Labs’ activities on LinkedIn and X, and get in touch with Mati via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
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Radiology is the field of medicine that has experienced some of the most dramatic technological changes over the past decades.
And given the record number of approvals for AI-based and machine-learning tools dedicated to radiology in Europe and the US (far ahead of all other medical specialties combined!), this trend is unlikely to slow down.
Such rapid evolution can be attributed to the abundance of imaging data from clinical practice, and it already has a huge impact on the way radiologists work and care for patients.
Faster workflows, enhanced diagnostic accuracy, and better informed clinical decisions…
As we enter the era of multimodal AI models capable of simultaneously interpreting volumes of data from different formats (such as voice notes, images, videos, texts, etc.), we can only expect this evolution to accelerate even more in the coming months and years.
As we seek to understand this transformation, we sit down with Amine Korchi, a Swiss radiologist, entrepreneur, investor, and renowned advocate for technological progress in radiology.
In this eye-opening episode, Amine offers us a rich perspective on:
the evolution of medical imaging, from static 2D images, through dynamic 3D, to AI
the impact of AI on the training of physicians and their specialization
current use cases of AI in radiology and their impact on patient care
the barriers to its adoption and the fears AI raises among radiologists
future developments of AI in radiology and their promises
An episode to help us understand one of the major technological revolutions in medicine - and one we're far from seeing the end of!
Timeline:
00:02:39 - Amine’s background as a radiologist, entrepreneur, and investor in clinical AI
00:06:10 - How radiology transformed over the past 20 years
00:13:43 - Is ultra specialization in medicine a good thing?
00:17:39 - Concrete use cases of AI in clinical radiology
00:21:50 - Barriers to AI adoption in radiology
00:27:44 - Future developments of AI in radiology
00:33:17 - The tasks that AI will replace in radiology
00:36:16 - Impact of AI on future radiologists’ training
What we also talked about with Amine:
Intravenous urography
CT Scan
Iseult MRI machine
Tumor board
GPT4-o
Cerebriu
Smart Reporting
Gleamer
Owkin
Kicky Van Leeuwen
Hugh Harvey
Microlearning
We mentioned with Amine some of the past episodes of the series:
#1 - Measuring your arterial age to prevent heart diseases - Ted Baldwin - Imageens
#16 - Making ultrasound portable to transform medical imaging - Ohad Arazi - Clarius
As mentioned by Amine during the episode, you can learn more about the latest in radiology through The Imaging Wire newsletter or on Radiology Business.
If you want to get in touch with Amine, you can do so via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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Sleep is the resting state that nature has chosen for us by default.
Long overlooked or even neglected, it is one of the keys to good health, alongside nutrition, physical exercise, and mental and emotional health.
Moreover, it is an excellent indicator of our overall health: when our sleep is disturbed, it usually means at least one of these four components is affected.
It thus seems essential to be able to measure the quality of our sleep while minimizing the interaction or invasiveness of the measurement method with our body.
And that is precisely the promise of Soumya Dash and his company Sleepiz!
Based on radar technology, this Swiss startup has developed a compact device to place on a bedside table, capable of remotely clinically measuring sleep and detecting potential disorders such as sleep apnea or insomnia.
No electroencephalogram to wear on the head, no pulse oximeter on the finger, nor any wearable around the wrist: everything is measured from the bedside table and without any direct interaction with the subject measured.
In this surprising episode, we dive into the fascinating world of sleep, a realm with many secrets still to be uncovered!
Soumya shares with us insights into the technology his team has developed, the difference between consumer-grade and medical-grade sleep monitors, and a glimpse into the future of healthcare in this field!
Timeline:
00:02:21 - How Soumya came across sleep monitoring and why it matters
00:12:45 - How the Sleepiz device monitors sleep
00:18:20 - Relevant use cases and target indications of sleep disorders
00:22:35 - Differences between consumer-grade vs. medical-grade sleep monitors
00:25:35 - B2C and B2B business models
00:37:43 - Past milestones and challenges ahead
What we also talked about with Soumya:
ETH Zürich
ISO 13485 norm
Class IIa medical device
510(k) FDA clearance
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Oura Ring
WHOOP
IDUN Technologies
SmartCardia
As mentioned by Soumya during the episode, you can learn more about sleep and the current state of research in the book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker.
You will find more information about Sleepiz on their website and you can follow their activities on LinkedIn.
If you want to get in touch with Soumya, you can do so via LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode or suggest potential guests, contact me over LinkedIn or via email!
And if you liked the episode, please share it, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms! 🙏
There’s now a bi-monthly newsletter around the podcast where you will be informed of the latest episodes and kept posted on the latest medical tech progress, subscribe here!
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