A Realist's Perspective on AI in Healthcare

On the Spot is a new segment of the You+AI Podcast where the focus is on fun and candid moments with guests on Healthcare+AI scenarios. Enjoy segments such as True or False, Fill in the ________, A Tweet Saves The Day etc. Jeremiah Robison is the founder and CEO of Cionic, an innovative company that builds lightweight and durable bionic clothing driven by powerful algorithms that adapt in real time to each individual's mobility needs. He is a proponent and an advocate for creating better solutions for people with mobility issues caused by neurological conditions and illnesses such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and more.If you liked this segment and would want to know more about our guest and how they lead from the front in Healthcare+AI, do tune in to the full You+AI Podcast episode with this guest.You will be able to go through all episodes of past seasons as well as the current one @ youplusai.com.

Our Guest: Jeremiah Robison(@jerobi)Jeremiah Robison is the founder and CEO of Cionic, an innovative company that builds lightweight and durable bionic clothing driven by powerful algorithms that adapt in real time to each individual's mobility needs. He is a proponent and an advocate for creating better solutions for people with mobility issues caused by neurological conditions and illnesses such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and more.In this episode, Jeremiah gives us a peek into what human augmentation is. He makes us understand the spectrum of abilities of the human body and how technology may be used to superpower those abilities. If you think that Bionic Clothing  is Sci-Fi, this is an episode you should definitely listen to.Jeremiah then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion audio (called On The Spot) and video segments (called Vodcast) where guests share their spontaneous views on Healthcare+AI scenarios.You can connect to all the episodes via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Prashant NatarajanPrashant Natarajan is the Vice President of Strategy & Products at H2O.ai. He is a best-selling author and co-author of books on healthcare & life sciences who focuses on demystifying complex technology topics, strategy, and digital transformation programs. His latest book is,  Demystifying AI for the Enterprise- a Playbook for Business Outcomes & Digital Transformation (2021).In this episode, Prashant takes us on a Data trip. He introduces us to Data Fidelity and explains the various attributes of data that may be relevant in a healthcare setting. He gives us a blueprint of how a healthcare enterprise may start planning their journey towards AI adoption.Prashant then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with him on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Gidi SteinDr. Gidi Stein is the CEO & Co-Founder of MedAware, which utilizes AI-driven outlier detection technology to mitigate medication-related risks and evolving adverse drug events. He is an award-winning physician, researcher, technologist and an expert in medical informatics. Early in his career, he served as CTO and Chief Architect of several algorithm-rich startup companies in Israel.In this episode, Dr. Stein starts off by giving us a context of medical errors and patient safety. He then gives us eye opening examples of how unintentional but yet simple medical errors like an incorrectly prescribed drug, an overdose of a drug or a treatment pathway that doesn't match the profile of the patient being treated may have catastrophic consequences. The AI based patient safety platform that Medaware has built helps safeguard patients from these possibilities while not overburdening clinicians with irrelevant alerts during the course of care. Dr. Stein then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with him on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: David AponteDavid Aponte is a machine learning engineer, working in machine learning infrastructure and ML-Ops. With a background in molecular biology, education, and data science, he enjoys building solutions to support multidisciplinary domains. He also helps lead and organize the ML-Ops Community, a global community of ML-Ops practitioners dedicated to sharing and promoting best practices for machine learning in production.In this episode, David starts off by giving us a peek into his day-to-day as a machine learning engineer. He gives us an insider view of the drug discovery domain and how AI/ML is helping with real-life examples of the developments during the pandemic.David is passionate about the focus on data and emphasizes it as the fuel that drives the AI/ML engine - the more the better, the higher quality fuel there is, the better access that one gets will all result in the best outcomes.David then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with David on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Vishnu RachakondaVishnu Rachakonda is a Machine Learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases.  Outside of work, he is the operations lead for the ML-Ops Community, a 3500-person online hub of ML-Ops practitioners and enthusiasts, and co-hosts the ML-Ops Coffee Sessions podcast.In this episode, Vishnu starts off narrating his day to day as an ML engineer in a Healthcare startup. We then delve into what's going well for AI in Healthcare. The realist in Vishnu explains what's not going well with AI in Healthcare with emphasis on whether AI is helping to bridge the clinical gap in knowledge. The focus then shifts to novel geographies and how solutions to local healthcare problems would be best sourced locally from homegrown companies rather than come from big pharma or big tech. Given Vishnu's passionate engagement with ML-Ops, we discuss how this field and community is maturing.Vishnu then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Vishnu Rachakonda on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Reshma SureshReshma Suresh heads Operations at Qure.ai. She has over 8 years of experience in building and scaling product innovations in healthcare. She focuses on strategic operations and is passionate about new technologies and last mile healthcare delivery. With a background in engineering as well as management, she works closely with clients and the product specialists to convert products to meaningful solutions.She strongly believes that true impact can stem only from a patient-centric healthcare approach.In this episode, Reshma starts with the early days of Qure.ai and the foundational aspects that are vital. Then she leads us through the challenges the pandemic presented and how Qure.ai was able to pivot their solution towards screening for Covid-19.We then discuss ML-Ops that is critical to engineering delivery and Reshma shares examples on how important it is for the ML pipeline to support various solution needs i.e. speed, accuracy, reliability and reproducibility. This episode is the first to have questions from our audience and Reshma answers a variety of them.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Reshma Suresh on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Hicham Naim(@PharmInnove)Hicham Naim is the Global Head of Integrated & Personalized Care Program at Takeda, Digital Advisory Board. He is a Pharmacist by training, he has a Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy and an MBA. He has over 20 years hands-on experience in the healthcare industry from strategy to implementation. Hicham Naim goes by the motto -- Better Health for People, Brighter Future for the World.In this episode, Hicham demystifies what is Digital Therapeutics and gives us a taste of it's various flavors. He then elaborates on a structure that details the key attributes of digital health apps and solutions that would drive their widespread adoption. He puts himself in the shoes of a healthcare practitioner and echoes how digital therapeutics should integrate with the clinical workflows. You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Hicham Naim on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Josh Case(@_JoshCase)Dr. Josh Case is a doctor and software developer from Brisbane, Australia. He is passionate about innovation, global health and very interestingly, teaching doctors to code. He sees huge opportunities for medics in the tech industry, and has made it his mission to empower other clinicians to embrace technology.In this podcast episode, he explains why his decision to leave full-time medicine to work at the intersection of healthcare and technology is a low risk, high rewards play. Dr. Case makes the case for why medics should have a keen appetite for technology and make use of the myriad opportunities that are opening up. He talks about his book "Code Blue" and how it is empowering a community of doctor coders. In true maker spirit, he then walks us through an example of a recent project that he is working on, shedding light on what it takes to do what he does. You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Josh Case on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com

Our guests: Eva Poggio and Nikos GreenEva Poggio is one of the co-founders of RoX Health. She takes care of all company building topics and projects in the field of Neurodegenerative diseases. She is a certified Design Thinking coach from the reputed Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany.Nikos Green is a Senior Venture Architect at RoX Health. He is a Neuroscientist with a medical background who is passionately committed to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Before RoX, he worked for a digital health incubator and has done consultancy work in the  healthcare sector.In this podcast, Eva and Nikos dive into how RoX Health is helping startups developing digital health apps for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease based on digital biomarkers. They lead us through an exciting journey of what it takes to bring a digital health app into the healthcare ecosystem. There is much to learn and explore about what digital health holds in store.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Nikos Green on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.