Akilesh Bapu is co-founder and CEO of DeepScribe, an AI-powered medical scribe that passively records and understands a patient’s visit, generates a clinical note, and then seamlessly inputs it into the electronic medical record.

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Guest: Akilesh Bapu / Twitter: @AkileshBapu

Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu

Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95

Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria

Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Artist Permission.

1:10 - Pathway towards the intersection of medicine and Machine Learning

9:45 - What specialties are best fitted for DeepScribe implementation

11:55 - How does DeepScribe find relevant information for the clinical encounter

14:45 - The creation process of the DeepScribe hardware.

18:10 - DeepScribe’s ability to discern fragments of the SOAP note

19:45 - DeepScribe and billing concerns

24:25 - Scaling the human scribe capacity behind DeepScribe

29:45 - Implementing predictive models with DeepScribe

32:00 - Voice diagnostics

33:40 - Patient privacy and DeepScribe

38:55 - Vision for deep scribe

40:20 - Google Care Studio EHR mention

42:00 - Physician Burnout

42:35 - Advice for future founders

44:15 - What brings you joy?

45:35 - What are your greatest fears?

47:00 - What gives your life meaning?

50:25 - How do medical students think about the future of healthcare