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The Times Tech Podcast

Babylon Health's Ali Parsa: "A doctor in your pocket"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ali Parsa, founder of Babylon Health, to talk about ending healthcare as we know it (4:00), doing to medicine what Google did to information (5:45), using artificial intelligence to diagnose patients (7:20), overcoming the trust issue (9:10), the problem with humans (11:30), the complete automation of healthcare (14:05), the challenge of pushing technology into hospitals (17:30), the limitations of remote care (22:40), the half of the world with no access to medicine (24:30), how Babylon’s AI does a consultation every few seconds (25:45), and the hurdles that stand in the way of AI-powered medicine (27:05).

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0:00.0

I'm always up before the birds and the kids.

0:02.9

Good thing Costa Express is always up too.

0:07.0

Early starts are easier with great coffee.

0:09.7

And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.

0:14.5

Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.

0:17.2

Oh, you legend.

0:19.6

Now that's a proper coffee.

0:21.3

Should kick in Justin Sanfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.

0:25.1

Hmm.

0:26.3

Costa Express.

0:27.8

Quality coffee every time.

0:32.6

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.

0:35.3

I am back, baby.

0:54.3

I hope you had a stupendous August. Mine was, it was hectic. So just a few days after I recorded that last interview at the end of last season with Adam Fisher about his very fabulous book on Silicon Valley.

0:55.1

I broke my arm.

1:01.7

I flew over my handlebars riding my bike downtown because someone did an illegal U-turn right in front of me.

1:04.3

So over my handlebars, I went and onto the pavement.

1:06.0

That was not great.

1:06.8

I don't recommend it.

1:11.4

And three days later, I had to move, which made moving boxes a little difficult.

1:17.7

So between myself and my, with my bad wing, and my wife, who was seven months pregnant, it was interesting.

1:19.9

And just one more tip from the top, if you ever have to move, which I don't suggest,

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