Ep. 8 - Imagining a World Without Access Gaps: How AI is Transforming Autism Care

After his son’s autism diagnosis and undergoing the long wait times typical with the process, distinguished tech entrepreneur Amol Deshpande embarked on a new career – to build game-changing innovation for early childhood conditions, starting with autism. He has invested millions in supporting others in pursuit of better care. This week, he launched Frontera Health as the founder and CEO in the business of “impacting humans.” He talks with host Lindsey Sneed about how Frontera’s tools use AI and technology advances to transform precision in therapy and give clinics and clinicians tools to leverage their scarce skill set.  After years of research and development built by leading computer vision researchers and clinicians, the company is set to release its groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind digital phenotyping platform in mental health. Providing hundreds of data points from interactions, the platform will aid clinicians during assessments and treatments, provide parents with key insights and bring precision of care to autism – all without natural human biases. Frontera's goal is to be non-incremental in its technological approach as it considers how to bring vast change to the field both in the data and workflow.   Driven by his experience, Amol is dedicating his expertise as an entrepreneur and parent to tackle key problems that he deems solvable by supporting clinicians and empowering parents.