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

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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