The provisioning of healthcare generally is pretty clunky and feels, as you say, it's kind of fax machines and dot matrix printers. It does feel like there may be an opportunity to come at it from this other angle of just like, we're just going to make a very useful health product and kind of invade the market that way. I imagine WebMD 2.0 or 5.0 or whatever, where it's just like, this is as good as a doctor in terms of answering questions. And those are cropping up like today, everywhere. There's one we just cropped up today.
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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