SmartHealth Podcast

Dr Michael Murphy, founder of Mortho, joins the show. Mortho’s mission is clear: to democratize orthopedic intelligence and make AI-powered surgical planning more accessible to the surgeons and patients who need it most. With a rare background spanning engineering, software development, machine learning, and orthopedic surgery, Michael is building technology from the inside out. His perspective is...

Dennis Trujillo, founder of Mercurial AI, joins the show. Mercurial’s mission is bold: to democratize medical intelligence and bring explainable AI into cancer care. Growing up near Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dennis saw cancer devastate his family and community. With a PhD in physics and machine learning, he’s now channeling that experience into building tools that provide trustworthy, personalized i...

To kick off our new season, we’re joined by Joseph Peterson , co-founder of Simbiosys, a company that’s breaking new ground in precision cancer care. Personalized care is the future, especially for cancer care, and Simbiosys' use of computational modeling and digital twins is one to watch. Joe’s journey is really impressive - from pouring silanes into concrete as a novice mason to now buildin...

Stepping outside of your comfort zone is talked about a lot, but how many of us actually do it?  You can be ‘succeeding’ by all common metrics, but are you happy? Fulfilled? Or is life passing you by? Tamanna Bembenek was enjoying a high-flying career at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Blending a scientific background with a passion for art, she flew through the ranks from regulator...

Dr Woojin Kim, CMIO of Rad AI, radiologist, serial entrepreneur and health AI thought leader joins the show. 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 s...

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...

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...

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. We discuss - Morris's entrepreneurial journey and how solving a personal c...

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 imaging Kovey’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 techniq...

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 experti...

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...

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...

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 an...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwid e. 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...

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 n...

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. T...

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 throu...

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 d...