Is there a piece of the health care stack, so to speak, where it's like this massive opportunity to remake some paper pushing aspect of it? You know, is there like a deeply unsexy, but potentially huge company that you guys are working with or that would help people understand kind of why we're spending so much money when you just think about just these systems? Well, the obvious example there is a company called Acasa founded by Malinka Walleade. I think simplify payments and how all of our stress about it and all the complexities of that. That will I think alone make a big difference in terms of cost. And also hopefully in terms of stress.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vijay Pande, head of Andreessen Horowitz’s $1.5bn bio fund, to talk about how artificial intelligence is impacting healthcare (3:30), tools that “understand” biology (8:50), trying to eliminate cancer (12:50), trying to get techie founders to get into healthcare (14:25), America’s plunging life expectancy (18:00), the (potential) end of radiology (21:10), AI’s “hallucination" problem in healthcare (25:55), the future of therapy (29:00), putting healthcare on the Moore’s Law curve (33:10), using automation to slash the industry’s costs and inefficiencies (37:30), the next trillion dollar company (40:00), if capitalism is the best way to crack healthcare (45:40), and solving the billing problem(48:35).
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