My friends Michael E Marks, Alexander Sardina and I all have something in common.
We love basketball.
The 3 of us got together at a stakehouse in Palo Alto to talk game, and Klay's (then) upcoming return to Chase Arena.
Incidentally, we have another thing in common: we are all massive believers in the AI's transformative capabilities in the clinical workflow. The 3 of us got together at Celesta Capital's offices the next day and did an episode of the TechSurge podcast to talk about this very hot sector!
This is a great listen for anyone interested in this space -- we go deep into the actual usecase for AI in Radiology (and diagnostics in general), why there are so many companies in Radiology AI that claim to have something of interest, the regulatory landscape, and the big question of jobs in this space.
After the first couple of minutes, I guess we forgot the mics were there and just had a freewheeling conversation between friends on a common journey.
Go ahead and give it a listen :) (Link in comments)
Also, a big thanks to Trevor DeWitt for making the magic happen!
PS - The TechSurge podcast episode on Bitcoin by Sriram Viswanathan is one of my best listens of this year :) So definitely check that out.
Radiologists are not just able to not spend time with patients, they're not even able to spend time with their physicians. And that is a big problem, right? A big part of radiology is communication to get to the optimal result for the patient. And many times that would involve working with the surgeon, understanding where a particular pathology is, what are the different routes of accessing it, How do they actually take out, let's say, a specific thing? Radiologists just don't have time for such things because. Like you said, in the back of the head, they're just thinking, ohh, I got a bunch of other cases, right? And, and at the same time, they're thinking, I need to give this guy the best of my abilities. And many times, unfortunately, they kind of fall between the stools, right? And, and I think that there's an opportunity for AI to genuinely give back time to radiologists to focus more on complex stuff. There's a lot of stuff that I won't be able to do in the near future, Michael. For example, we talk about AI to do cancer, and I think breast cancer is a great idea, but there are a lot of cancers. That never form a pattern. And in the end, AI is in the end, AI is pattern recognition. And of course I'm simplifying, right? But in the end, it's pattern recognition. And some of these are so complex that you'll always need deep expertise and deep oversight. And that's what radiologists are there for, right? And radiologists are the doctor's doctor, right? Head to toe. They understand anatomy better than any single specialist. And that's why they're so important. That's why they're so good and building a tool that can take away mind numbing and extremely high volume. Enough and give them back time to practice high quality medicine. I mean, I would want the radiologist, if they're ever reading a case of my mother or myself or somebody like that, I would want them to have all the time they need. I would want them to have expertise at their fingertips and I'd want them to be in a position where they can help me get the best care.
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