Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the TechMeme Right Home podcast.

This is actually going to be a holiday episode, I believe, Memorial Day.

I'm your host, as always, Brian McCullough.

This is a portfolio profile episode.

We haven't done one of these in a few months.

We are going to be talking about AI. We're going to be talking about AI in healthcare. We're going to talk to

Afir Ronan, who is the founder of Calmwave, Calmwave.aI.A.I.A.A.A.A.A.A. Thanks for coming on the show. Brian, thanks so much.

Honored to be here. So let's get this out of the way quickly. Give me the elevator pitch

for what Calm Wave does, and then I'm going to tell you why I was so excited to invest in it.

All right.

Call Wave is a company that is building an intelligent hospital operations platform.

What does that mean?

That means that we fuse the isolated silos of data that are everywhere in hospital systems

and use those to do lots of things. We're starting with finally

fixing the problem of alarm fatigue in ICU. Hopefully you haven't encountered that problem yourself,

but if you haven't, you know, patients today encounter between 400 and 800 audible alarms

per day in an ICU. And remember, you're in an ICU because you're arguably

in the worst state that you've ever been in your life and what you want to do is sleep and rest

and recover. And you can't because every one to two seconds, something is beeping next to your ear.

And also, if you are a medical professional, you are in that ICU trying to triage, trying to handle what's going on.

Absolutely.

And there's beeping going on in all the rooms all around you and all that.

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