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Autonomous Health PodcastSkin Cancer and Melanoma - Did Machine Vision Lose?In this episode, we talk to Cody Simmons, CEO at DermaSensor. DermaSensor achieved internet-fame in late Jan 2024, when it received FDA clearance for its approach using non-invasive spectroscopy for skin cancer and melanoma detection. According to Cody, there have been hundreds of researchers in both academia and industry, with the first research papers in the late 1980s. So why go after a novel hardware centric-approach? Hasn’t #machinevision already solved this? Not so fast. There is not a single image-based skin cancer AI tool available for use in the US that's approved by the FDA. Cody talks abou...2024-02-1330 min
Autonomous Health PodcastAn Architect’s View on Putting Healthcare AI to WorkIn this episode, we speak to Bagirathi Narayanan, Chief Architect at Teladoc Health.Bagirathi talks about her journey as an enterprise software architect in the finance-tech world, and what made her come to healthcare. While both are heavily regulated and have similar technology challenges; the complexity of the ecosystem in healthcare is remarkably high. Bagirathi talks about how these industries approached the cloud-first and mobile-first transformation; and what lessons apply to being an AI-first healthcare enterprise in 2024. Software engineers and product managers sometimes have a love-hate relationship with architects. Bagirathi shares her thoughts on where s...2024-01-1635 min
Autonomous Health PodcastMisinformation and Trust in the Healthcare AI EraIn this episode, we talk to Dr. Geeta Nayyar, healthcare executive and author. Dr. Nayyer joins us to talk about her recent WSJ bestseller, Dead Wrong, and the role of technology in misinformation. Dr. Nayyar picks up the conversation talking about her personal experiences with mis-information in healthcare; and what drives people to question the incentives of a healthcare provider - be it the AIDS epidemic, or the recent COVID pandemic. Poor access to information not only lets patients down; but can also drive provider burnout.Is there a link between technology and misinformation? Dr. N...2023-12-1225 min
Autonomous Health PodcastBringing Personalization to Health PlansIn this episode, we speak to Dr. Arta Bakshandeh, Chief Medical Informatics Officer of Alignment Health. Dr. Bakshandeh talks about his journey as a physician, seeing the power of machine learning and AI, and its impact on health plan members. Alignment Health, a consumer brand name of Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ: ALHC), offers benefit-rich Medicare Advantage plans across 6 states, designed around the idea of driving more personalized healthcare for seniors. We talk about the change in thinking that is occurring inside health plans around the adoption of machine learning and AI. Dr. Bakshandeh highlights what it takes to d...2023-11-2834 min
Autonomous Health PodcastHealth Equity Implications in the New Age of AIHealth equity has been an important discussion in the last several years in the healthcare community. In this episode, we go deeper into the challenges in health equity with Stefany Goradia. We begin by talking about the current state of health inequity in the US healthcare system in both access to care, and clinical outcomes. We talk about how health equity is complementary to social determinants of health. Stefany provides examples of these that we see everyday in the US healthcare system, from outcomes for maternal health, to economic aspects of the healthcare systems.We di...2023-11-0735 min
Autonomous Health PodcastAI in Inpatient and Home Care: Mike & Jon from InspirenWhat are the opportunities for AI in inpatient and home care? In this episode, we talk to Mike Wang and Jon Gips from Inspiren, whose AUGi platform leverages machine vision and AI to help nurses and providers be more productive with data, and detect and reduce harm.Nurses play such an important role in healthcare. Mike and Jon dive into the challenges in nursing today – specifically the burden and obstacles in current hospital settings. For context, a 2023 McKinsey study reported that 40% of nurses are considering leaving the profession. Mike and Jon break down the labor and culture pr...2023-10-1735 min
Autonomous Health PodcastOur Autonomous Health Mini-State of the UnionAI innovation is moving at a breakneck pace, and we’re just starting to understand the applications and impact on healthcare. In this episode, we take a moment to reflect on the need and broader vision for the autonomous health conversation. Our host, Anmol Madan, talks about the building blocks of making this vision real - both on the technology front (e.g. new types of data/signals, advances in recent models, and the impact they have on the care experience), and also the social elements (e.g. our upcoming episodes diving into health equity, workforce planning, and...2023-10-0319 min
Autonomous Health PodcastWhat AI Can Solve in Behavioral Health and What It Can’tIn this episode, we speak to a luminary in the field of mental health. Dr. Tom Insel is the executive chair at Vanna Health, former executive at Verily, and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Insel begins by putting the current AI revolution in context, calling this the fourth wave of mental health innovation – the previous waves being pharmaceuticals, followed by genomic advances, and (most recently) digital mental health technology innovations. According to Tom, the impact of AI in mental health will be immense, but we still have basic problems to solve like str...2023-09-1231 min
Autonomous Health PodcastBuilding High-Performing AI Teams in HealthcareMost of our guests at our Autonomous Health Podcast talk about novel insights about data, AI models, and applications. But in this episode, we’re going down a different path – learning about building high-performance AI teams in healthcare. Have you wanted to build a high-performing AI team? Are you thinking about roles in the field? In this episode, we speak to Peg Olson and Abbie Turek, experienced recruiters who have been building technology and executive teams in this space for over three decades. Peg and Abbie share their secrets for building high-performing AI teams, as well...2023-08-2934 min
Autonomous Health PodcastSleep as a Competitive Advantage: Insights from Pilots and Astronauts Applied to Everyday LifeThis episode of Autonomous Health takes a longer-term look at the future of sleep. What can we learn about sleep in extreme environments from astronauts, military pilots, and oil rig workers? Our guest this episode is Dr. Cassie Hilditch, a scientist in the field of sleep countermeasures. Sleep countermeasures, in simple terms, is discovering approaches to maximize the benefits of sleep in a continuous operating environment, such as military applications. In this episode, we discuss the role of light manipulation in minimizing fatigue, and give examples of how military operators and astronauts prepare for critical professional goals. ...2023-08-1535 min
Autonomous Health PodcastHow CGMs Are Evolving What We Know About Blood Glucose in Metabolic Disease and Everyday LifeContinuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) were first approved by the FDA nearly 25 years ago, but have seen widespread adoption in the last decade with popular CGM models from leading companies such as Dexcom and Abott. This has also led to discovering the everyday health insights that CGMs can inform beyond diabetes management.In this episode, we speak to data scientists RJ Elllis, PhD and Robbie Capps, PhD who have gone deep into understanding metabolic patterns in CGM data. RJ and Robbie talk about the benefits of continuous monitoring – where the resolution of data can be 100x over traditional fi...2023-07-2534 min
Autonomous Health PodcastLLMs and Healthcare Applications: Where Things Are & Lessons from Building Conversational Applications at ScaleWelcome back to the Autonomous Health podcast. AI conversational agents and natural language have existed well before the recent advances in large-language-models (LLMs). In this episode, we talk to John O’Donovan, PhD. John is a machine learning and AI innovator who serves as a research scientist at UC Santa Barbara and has authored 100+ scientific publications. He also leads AI teams at Teladoc Health. John has been working on conversational agents for the last several years, and has built and scaled large conversational systems that serve millions of consumers prior to the most recent LLM revolution.2023-07-1132 min
Autonomous Health PodcastQualified Consumer Wellness and Sleep: Hearing the Rise Science StoryWelcome back to the Autonomous Health podcast. Good sleep plays a pivotal role in mood, brain functioning, limiting stress, and overall health, including the management of chronic conditions. Yet over the past few decades, mobile devices and lifestyle changes have also adversely impacted good sleep.In this episode, we talk with Jeff Kahn and Leon Sasson, co-founders of Rise Sleep Science. Rise sleep is a leading health and wellness app globally, helping people better track and manage their sleep, which was recognized by Apple at WWDC 2023 as an Apple Design Award finalist. Hear their personal journey about...2023-06-2737 min
Autonomous Health PodcastWhat LLM AI Applications Can Learn About Risk & Safety from the Last Decade of Autonomous Vehicles (Self-Driving Cars)Welcome to Season 1 of the Autonomous Health podcast. The last six months have seen tremendous progress of generative AI, much of it in large language models like chat-GPT. But there are numerous questions about the risks of these AI applications. Recently, in a scene right out of science fiction, Open AI CEO Sam Altman met with the US Senate and made a compelling case for regulatory oversight of AI. The Center of AI Safety just published a statement of risk saying that AI could have extinction-level implications.Over $100 billion dollars and 15+ years of innovation have been invested...2023-06-1433 min
The Pulse by Wharton Digital HealthAnmol Madan, Livongo, on using data science to transform care deliveryIn this episode, we sit down with Anmol Madan, Chief Data Scientist at Livongo, where he is responsible for machine learning and data science across all of Livongo’s products and services, to help people be the best versions of themselves. Livongo empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, beginning with diabetes and now including hypertension, weight management, diabetes prevention, and behavioral health. Livongo pioneered the category of Applied Health Signals to offer Members clinically-based insights that focus on the whole person and make it easier to stay healthy.
Anmol previously co-founded Ginger.io...2020-05-0742 min
The Pulse by Wharton Digital HealthAnmol Madan, Livongo, on using data science to transform care deliveryIn this episode of The Pulse Podcast, Lora interviews Anmol Madan, Chief Data Scientist of Livongo, where he is responsible for machine learning and data science across all of Livongo's products and services, to help people be the best versions of themselves. Livongo empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, beginning with diabetes and now including hypertension, weight management, diabetes prevention, and behavioral health. Livongo pioneered the category of Applied Health Signals to offer Members clinically-based insights that focus on the whole person and make it easier to stay healthy.
Anmol previously co-founded Ginger.io, an...2020-05-0742 min