May 27, 2024

64 - VC Heats Up w/ 18 New Deals, Doctors Reach Breaking Point, Asthma Cured?

64 - VC Heats Up w/ 18 New Deals, Doctors Reach Breaking Point, Asthma Cured?

This episode covers the opioid epidemic in Baltimore, AI's impact in healthcare, remote patient monitoring benefits for heart failure, AI diagnostic discrepancies in breast cancer among black women, the health consequences of anger, the gender pay gap...

This episode covers the opioid epidemic in Baltimore, AI's impact in healthcare, remote patient monitoring benefits for heart failure, AI diagnostic discrepancies in breast cancer among black women, the health consequences of anger, the gender pay gap in medicine, the loss of drugstores and its effects on health equity, GSK's asthma drug, Banner Health's OR efficiency through AI, and Epic's open-source AI validation tool.

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