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Ep 67: Abridge Leaders on AI-Native Healthcare, Doctors Who Code, and the Future of Clinical AI

from Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan · host Jacob Effron, Nikhil Krishnan, Shiv Rao, Michał Nedoszytko

A couple weeks ago, Michał Nedoszytko placed third globally at Anthropic's hackathon out of 13,000 participants. He was the head of cardiology at a hospital in Brussels at the time. Now he is Clinical Scientist at Abridge. On this episode of Vital Signs, Nikhil and I sat down with Abridge's CEO Shiv Rao and Michal to chat about how the hire came together, what changed with Opus 4.6 that let a cardiologist ship a working MVP in 40 minutes, and where they both think clinical AI goes next.   (0:00) Intro (0:19) Hackathon Fame (3:52) Shiv Recruits Mahal (6:30) Doctors Who Code (9:07) Prototypes vs Production (10:26) Regulation and Partnerships (13:00) Customization vs Reliability (15:59) AI Native Company Ops (19:29) Healthcare in 10 Years (21:08) Admin vs Clinical AI (24:47) Payers and Prior Auth (29:48) Training Doctors for AI (35:19) Context, Autonomy, and Demand (40:40) Pre-visit Workflows and Triage   Out-Of-Pocket: https://www.outofpocket.health/

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A couple weeks ago, Michał Nedoszytko placed third globally at Anthropic's hackathon out of 13,000 participants. He was the head of cardiology at a hospital in Brussels at the time. Now he is Clinical Scientist at Abridge. On this episode of Vital Signs, Nikhil and I sat down with Abridge's CEO Shiv Rao and Michal to chat about how the hire came together, what changed with Opus 4.6 that let a cardiologist ship a working MVP in 40 minutes, and where they both think clinical AI goes next.

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