Tortus' Dom Pimenta: "AI is the answer to NHS doctor burnout"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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AI will save the NHS - but not the wya you think. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dom Pimenta, a cardiologist and co-founder of Tortus, to talk about the potential of its artificial intelligence interface (AI) for doctors (5:00), preventing burnout (11:00), naming the tool OSLER (18:30), how it works (20:45), why he became a doctor (26:00), founding a charity during Covid (29:15), quitting the NHS (32:45), getting Khosla Ventures to invest (35:35), trying to get the product into market (40:00), and AI's potential in medicine (45:00).

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0:31.6	Yo, technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.9	I think it's not a pipe dream that's number one
0:39.4	i doctor in your pocket that's that's today right you literally have gpt o in your pocket right now
0:48.6	is a better diagnostician than 99% of physicians based on that one study looking at New England
0:55.6	General Medicine. And that's not to say that I'm saying we should replace it, but I do think
1:00.0	it's a really interesting time in medicine when the problem for all of time has always been
1:04.5	about distribution of expertise. And now potentially we have infinite distribution of expertise.
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1:29.9	the minds of the top people in tech. I'm your host, Danny Fordson, the West Coast correspondent
1:34.9	for The Sunday Times. And this week, we're talking about health care, but specifically the problems
1:42.6	in health care like Dr. Burnout, high cost, poor results, the
1:46.8	general brokenness of the system, and how AI might just help solve a lot of those problems,
1:54.0	but, and here's the twist, not in the way you think. So depending on who you ask, doctors spend anywhere from three to five hours in front of a
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