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Dr Woojin Kim, CMIO of Rad AI, radiologist, serial entrepreneur and health AI thought leader joins the show.
Woojin’s early life, teaching himself English and the obstacles he overcame to get into Brown and medical schoolWhy he chose the path of radiologyThe role of the Radiologist as a VendorThe different paths available to radiologists todayThe story behind Woojin’s start-upsRadAI and recent successFoundation models in healthcareAdvice to other companies building
A perfect example of a clinician that bridges the gap between healthcare and technical innovation, Woojin began solving his own problems early. Combining a passion for technology - taught himself how to code! - with radiological expertise and an eye for solving problems, Woojin found that solving his own problems led to successful companies.
Building and exiting 3 start-ups, including Montage Healthcare to Nuance Communications and Equium Intelligence to Rad AI, Woojin shares the core principles and lessons that have resulted in such success.
Now CMIO at Rad AI, he's helping deliver innovative AI reporting technology to radiologists globally.
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Chaitanya Gharpure, co-founder and CTO of Sully.ai joins the show.
Sully's mission is 'one human, one doctor' i.e. every human on the planet should have access to a doctor when needed.
They've recognised that doctors everywhere are overburdened with administrative tasks, tasks that take their attention away from what matters - the patient.
Sully are utilizing AI to automate the most time-consuming tasks including patient notes, pre-screen assessments and writing clinical plans.
We discuss -
- Chaitanya's background, work at Google and transition into entrepreneurship
- The company's vision: "One human, one doctor."
- The experience finding the right co-founders
- Foundation models in healthcare
- Experience integrating with the clinical workflow
- The steps they took to understand the problem
- Chaitanya's advice to other foundershttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-webb-a5605768/
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Leander Markisch, co-founder of Floy, joins the show. Floy are a radiology AI start-up based in Munich and they’ve already achieved incredible success.
Millions of routine scans happen every year, but oftentimes early signs of disease are extremely difficult for radiologists to pick up. Floy’s solution utilises AI to combat this issue, alerting the radiologist of potential abnormalities in the scan, paving the way to more proactive care.
What’s fascinating about Floy’s approach is their commercial strategy – their direct to patient approach puts the decision to use AI in the patient’s hands. Needless to say, this has been a huge success, with Floy picking up 14% of the German radiology market in their first 2 years.
We discuss -
- Leander's background and entrepreneurial mindset
- The story that led him to Floy
- The experience of building for healthcare as a newcomer
- The importance of a patient-centric approach
- How Leander learnt about AI without a technical background
- The importance of seamlessly integrating into clinical workflow and how Floy do this
- Floy's unique commercial approach
- Plans for the future
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Morris Panner, President of Intelerad and successful healthtech entrepreneur, joins the show.
Morris has added huge value to the space across an impressive career, pioneering tech to improve medical imaging data access.He’s founded & sold two companies including Ambra Health to Intelerad, where he’s now President.
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Morris's entrepreneurial journey and how solving a personal challenge led to the founding of AmbraThe critical role of technology, especially AI and cloud computing, in addressing global healthcare demands. Differences and similarities between the UK and US healthcare systemsThe importance of integrating smoothly with the clinical workflow & demonstrating clear ROIThe role Intelerad is playing in global healthcare & future plansMorris’ advice to budding leaders in the space
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Kovey Kovalan, CEO & Founder of LifeVoxel joins the show
LifeVoxel won Aunt Minnie’s Best New Radiology Vendor for 2023, utilizing GPUs to greatly enhance the capabilities of medical imagingKovey’s journey from aerospace engineering to medical imaging AI is a fascinating one - he spotted the potential for GPUs with vector processors whilst working in aerospace, and has applied similar techniques to commoditise GPU technology for the healthcare world.
We discuss how LifeVoxel are opening up an affordable and effective use case of GPUs to massively improve data access and sharing, diagnostic process and patient outcomes.
We also go into a huge passion of Kovey’s that is preventative treatment, and how radiology is the best place to pick up on illness earlier.
Kovey’s path from aerospace engineering to healthcare technology.The moment that sparked the idea to use GPUs in medical imaging.A deep dive into how GPUs an revolutionize medical imaging.The advantages of using commodity hardware to reduce costs and increase accessibility in healthcare.Overcoming industry resistance to integrating AI into medical systems.Kovey’s vision for AI’s future role in preventive medicine and ongoing patient care.Kovey's advice to other founders on navigating the startup ecosystem, from ideation to scalinghttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-webb-a5605768/
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John & Charlotte Kalafut, founders of Asher Orion join the show.
Industry pioneer John understands the space from almost every angle
Previously Chief Scientist for Informatics @ GE Healthcare, he’s a true innovator, with 40+ patented medical devices with 12 currently being sold globally.
Charlotte complements John perfectly with a fantastic blend of strategic insight & operational expertise; not to mention a genuine passion for bringing innovation to poorer communities.
The complexities of bringing AI innovation to healthcare are enormous - for both sides. Healthcare systems are being flooded with potential tools they don’t understand, and conversely new AI vendors are often unaware of the pitfalls that exist when trying to implement.
Enter John and Charlotte, who’s combined experience is the perfect antidote to stakeholders trying to make sense of AI in healthcare.
We discuss -
John’s journey from an amateur radio & astronomy enthusiast to being a pivotal figure in healthcare AIThe transition from academia to industryThe importance of a user-centric approachThe complexities of the healthcare system - what you need to understand when building for the spaceCharlotte & John’s passion for healthcare equity, and how they plan to bring AI to lower resourced communitiesHow Asher Informatics are helping hospitals formulate AI strategyAnd much more!
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Data access is a huge problem in medical imaging AI. To meet safety criteria and have a positive impact on patients, AI models need rich and diverse datasets. Only it’s so difficult to get hold of.
Enter Gradient Health. Gradient have spent years partnering with hospitals globally to establish a huge medical imaging library, an on-demand data infrastructure that AI developers can plug into.
Ouwen and his co-founders are no strange to entrepreneurship, having founded and exited a computer vision satellite company during their college years. They wanted to apply their skills to something meaningful i.e. medicine, so turned their attention to medical imaging AI. Which is where the stark reality of data access became apparent.
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How Gradient was formedHow Gradient have assembled so much dataMaking data suitable for ML algorithmsLLMs in healthcareOuwen’s entrepreneurial advice and building businesses with friendshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-webb-a5605768/
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Synthetic data is all the rage right now.
With data access proving a huge problem in healthcare AI, the possibility of synthetic data is enticing.
Kathrin Khadra is the co-founder of Ryver.AI, who are specialists in this ever-emerging field.
Their technology is able to generate medical images indistinguishable from reality.
With a keen focus on underrepresented data, their solution is furnishing AI developers & vendors with rich datasets of medical images for more accurate AI analysis.
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How synthetic data works & Ryver’s solutionThe scepticism for synthetic data & how this will be overcomeHow multi-modality is impacting the spaceThe many potential applications of synthetic dataKathi’s own entrepreneurial journey - hiring advice, investment advice etchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-webb-a5605768/
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Dr Alan Pitt, CEO of VitalChat, Professor of Neuroradiology at Barrow Neurological Institute and serial entrepreneur joins the show.
With decades of experience in healthcare, Alan is hugely passionate about making a difference.
Having witnessed the transition from film to filmless & an early adopter of PACs, Alan has had a front row seat to how technology has changed healthcare - positively and negatively.
Having made the successful transition from physician to entrepreneur, Alan knows what it takes to add real value in the space.
Founding several successful companies - including a successful exit of Excelsius Robotics - and advising many more, Alan understands the pitfalls (no pun intended) that start-ups have encountered over the years & has seen firsthand how tech can often be more of a hindrance than a help.
His passion for helping front-line workers is infectious, his mission of ‘bringing people together to manage the continuum of care’.
Realising how overburdened nurses & other front-line workers are, Alan’s now founded VitalChat who are reimagining the traditional hospital room, augmenting equipment on the ward with video & ambient intelligence to ease the burden
So many lessons in this one - how and perhaps more importantly how not to build innovation for healthcare.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.
Diagnosis - especially in its early stages - is difficult, costly & time-consuming.
Enter the power of AI.
Animesh Agarwal has been at the forefront of this burgeoning industry since 2019.
He founded NeuTrace, an AI-driven Cardiac electrophysiology platform - combining huge datasets to identify disease from abnormal heat rhythms. NeuTrace was then bought by Anumana to complement their own cardiac AI product suite, the company now making tremendous strides in the field.
Animesh talks about the new class of AI products that are emerging - products that don’t just improve what humans can already do; but products that do things we’ve never been able to.
Animesh & Anumana have been prolific in gaining FDA approval for their AI-driven products - 2 approved in the last year - and are harnessing the power of generative AI to achieve truly futuristic use-cases.
Hailing from an investment background, Animesh has tremendous knowledge of what makes a product successful in healthcare and medical devices. We discuss
Animesh’s upbringing and what inspired him to get into healthcareAnimesh’s experience in venture capital & his investment strategyFounding NeuTraceAdvice on how to identify a product & market fitThe future of AI - Anumana’s innovationsAnd much more!
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More and more AI products are being built for healthcare, but how are we ensuring safety?
After all, these tools are being used to impact the patient journey and this people's lives - safety and transparency are therefore paramount.
The regulatory guidelines are ever-moving and often complex, posing a tricky problem for AI vendors - how do they build and commercialize a success product in a notoriously challenging space whilst at the same time ensuring adherence to regulation?
This is where Enes Hosgor & his company Gesund.AI come in.
Enes is a seasoned entrepreneur who's no stranger to navigating the intricacies of regulated industries. His journey, from a successful exit with his ML-based company EEme in the electricity sector to learning the complexities of healthcare AI with CareSyntax, has led him to a crucial realization: healthcare AI lacks a robust, underlying infrastructure to ensure safety and compliance proactively.
This gap in the market birthed Gesund.AI, whose chief aim is to provide a secure, transparent platform that empowers AI vendors to validate their products independently and ensure regulatory compliance.
We discuss how Gesund's platform can turbo-charge safe and transparent AI development, their other offerings - including access to diverse datasets - and glean wisdom from Enes's rich experience as an entrepreneur in the space.
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Introduction and Background06:09
Entrepreneurship and Building AI Products in Regulated Industries13:20
Lessons Learned from First Company and Transition to Healthcare21:47
Fresh Perspective and Challenges in Healthcare AI28:11
Addressing Trust Gap and Importance of Evidence Generation29:15
Regulatory Landscape and Compliance in Medical AI36:21
Impact of Executive Order and Transparency in AI41:16
Preparing for Regulatory Changes and Compliance-Driven Development44:51
Data Access and Bespoke Solutions for AI Algorithms50:03
Importance of SOC2 Accreditation and Trust in the Platform53:07
Model Validation and Integration Challenges56:07
Regulatory Uncertainty58:38
The Grit of Regulated Industries59:32
Building Infrastructure in Medical AI01:00:24
Interdisciplinary Mindset for Success01:01:42
Hiring and Talent Discovery01:03:42
Navigating the Financial Landscape01:04:12
Finding the Right Investors01:07:14
Adapting to Regulatory Dynamics01:09:03
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Angela Adams, CEO of Inflo Health and Kandice Garcia Tomkins, Quality Director at the American College of Radiology, join the show.
Collaboration between AI vendors and the healthcare system is key to implementing innovation in the space.Vendors often wonder why their product is struggling to gain traction - maybe blaming the product itself, the commercial strategy or archaic infrastructure.
The real problem is the current state of play in radiology departments everywhere. Overworked, burnt out and behind on their schedule, front line workers don’t have the time for new technology. They’re too focused on getting through the day to spend time learning how to use a new piece of software.
Angela and Kandice have teamed up to solve this.
Through the ACR Learning Network, Kandice and the team are working on the ground, hand in hand with radiology departments to help them get into shape, instilling efficient processes and routines that allow them to enjoy their work again - and be far more amenable to AI solutions.
Angela and Inflo Health have developed a fantastic solution for imaging follow-ups, utilising AI to ensure follow ups aren’t missed, the story of which we discuss on the show. Angela has recognised that departments in their current state of burnout won’t be able to enjoy the full value of her product - like they’ve struggled with other tech - so has partnered up with Kandice and the ACR learning network to help radiology departments get it right from both sides.
An important conversation around the real state of play in radiology departments, and an optimistic message of hope for the future.
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Serial entrepreneur, world renowned radiologist and AI pioneer, Dr Khan Siddiqui's impact in both healthcare & AI is undeniable.
Whether it was setting up the first Health Informatics faculty in the US, scaling health consumer engagement platform Higi to millions of patients and eventual exit, or his success with Hyperfine's world's first MRI, Dr Khan has been adding value throughout his career.
A true innovator in the space - he was working on multi-modal AI and synthetic data at Microsoft over 10 years ago - Khan is mission driven, a mission to solve problems whilst having a social impact.
He's now leading HOPPR, whose work on Grace - a foundation model for medical imaging - could usher in a new wave of innovation and patient care. Perhaps becoming Dr Siddiqui's greatest social impact yet.
We discuss this revolutionary technology, as well as
- Khan's history, influences and mindset
- His approach to building companies in healthcare
- His career and life advice
- Advice on hiring
- Investment - the best way to get it, and what to look for if investing yourself
And much more!
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Quantivly co-founder Robert (Bobby) MacDougall joins the show to tell us how their data harmonization and Digital Twin platform is reshaping radiology operations.
Quantivly were born out of Boston Children's Hospital where Bobby met his co-founder Benoit Scherrer. Together, they realized that crucial operational data was being lost amongst the complex, siloed systems on the department. Such data - if available - could be used to supercharge efficient workflow, easing the burden on staff and increasing access to medical imaging. What's more, this problem exists everywhere that medical imaging is performed.
Join us as we discuss Bobby and Benoit's journey from mere idea to reality. We discuss -
- Early start-up life and what it takes to take the leap from full-time work to entrepreneur
- Fundraising in healthcare AI
- How to integrate with the clinical workflow
- How they hired the early team
- Their commercialisation strategy
- And of course, how AI is being used to impact healthcare
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