Senan Ebrahim, MD and Priyanka Vaidya - Delfina: Safer Pregnancies

Angel-scale biotech: Learn More While at Harvard Medical School, Senan Ebrahim was deeply affected by witnessing a still birth. Convinced better data could have avoided the tragedy, he founded Delfina Care with Priyanka Vaidya from EMOTIV, the EEG platform, and his brother Ali Ebrahim, PhD, a former Tech Lead at Google. Senan and Priyanka joined me for a great chat about the exciting things happening in digital health.   Highlights:   Sal Daher Introduces Senan Ebrahim and Priyanka Vaidya of Delfina Senan Ebrahim Was Interviewed in a Prior Episode Titled "Hikma Health" Obstetricians Are Flooded with Data from Pregnant Patients Leading to Poor Outcomes Priyanka Vaidya's Experience with Gestational Diabetes Highlighted the Need to Coordinate Care "...I realized discontinuity of care is a major problem." "Delfina wants to be that one place that integrates all of these discrete sources of data so that the mom stays in the center of the care..." Integrating Health Data Shows Up in Interviews with Jeremy Wiygul, MD of Pela Health and Ryan Hess of Connective Health "...how are we going to take better care of the four million pregnant moms in 2023 than we did in 2022?" Senan Reached Out to Priyanka for Product Savvy and to His Brother Ali for Experience Building Sophisticated Data Models The Patient Journey at Delfina "This data is being enriched as the patient travels along the journey." Machine Learning Is Just Starting to Do Useful Things in Medicine Like Identifying a Stroke Quickly or Predicting Preeclampsia Incentives Are Aligned in Pregnancy Care; Nobody Wants Babies to End Up in Intensive Care What Delfina Means by "Closing the Loop" in Patient Care Delfina's Platform Is Actually Live at a Practice in California Commercialization Will Focus Initially on Under-Served Populations How the Name "Delfina" Came About The Founding Story of Delfina Care Topics: biotech, product, robotics / AI