Next Unicorns: Building the future of healthcare communication with Abridge CEO Shiv Rao | E1784
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Today’s show:
Abridge CEO Shiv Rao joins Jason to discuss how his AI platform saves doctors time by automating consultation note-taking(8:29), the future of the medical field(37:23), and much more!
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Time stamps: (00:00) Abridge CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Shiv Rao joins Jason (3:22) Abridge's journey and tailwinds in the industry (6:43) The sudden advancement in AI tech (8:29) The importance of conversation in healthcare (12:00) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist (13:29) Dr. Shiv demos Abridge (21:49) Reinforcement training and building trustworthy models (23:10) Use of this product in the field and feedback from clinics (26:53) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist (28:00) Time saved using Abridge (30:30) How patients interact with Abridge and data privacy (35:56) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (37:23) The future of the medical field (49:11) The pace of healthcare today
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| 0:00.0 | That's the thing that's blowing my mind more than anything else in 2023 is that health care |
| 0:05.2 | is moving at the pace that it is with this technology. Is it really moving faster finally? |
| 0:09.3 | It is moving so fast. Why did they go from not moving fast to moving fast? Is it just because |
| 0:14.9 | it's so broken and they're so exhausted and they're finally ready to capitulate and use the |
| 0:20.0 | technology? Yeah, we just pushed way past the point. This weekend startups is brought to you by |
| 0:25.6 | Crowdbotics. Great ideas can change the world and Crowdbotics is the fastest way to turn those |
| 0:32.4 | ideas into code. Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com |
| 0:38.9 | slash twist. Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to win new |
| 0:45.2 | business. Vanta makes it easier for companies to get a sock to report fast. Twist listeners can |
| 0:50.9 | get $1,000 off for a limited time. Vanta.com slash twist and LinkedIn marketing to redeem a free |
| 1:00.2 | $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com slash next unicorn. |
| 1:09.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to the program. Today another amazing episode of our the next |
| 1:13.4 | unicorn series. You want to see all the startups we featured in this over the years this week |
| 1:18.4 | and startups.com slash next unicorns. What is the idea behind the show? We find promising |
| 1:23.6 | companies that we think could change the world and just last week I interviewed Andy back. |
| 1:28.8 | He's building path AI. If you remember that it helps make pathologist superhuman right they get |
| 1:34.7 | a 3d model they look through the microscope and it makes it easier to diagnose things like cancer |
| 1:40.1 | maybe more accurately. We'll drive treatment and hopefully extend people's lives and suffer |
| 1:47.3 | for a lower suffering. Great great mission. Today another AI founder in the health care space. Dr. |
| 1:52.4 | Shiv Rao is a cardiologist teacher. Form a corporate VC. Don't hold it against them and the CEO |
| 1:59.2 | co-founder of a bridge. Now a bridge you ask what is that amazing AI platform? Well it takes |
| 2:05.9 | verbal conversations between doctors and patients and it converts them into what the industry calls |
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