Dereck Paul - GlassHealth: AI-Assisted Diagnosis and Clinical Decision-Making

Dereck Paul, MD is a cofounder and the CEO of Glass Health, an AI-powered medical knowledge management and clinical decision-making platform that helps clinicians provide better patient care. Previously, he was an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Host: David Wu

Twitter: @davidjhwu 

Audio Producer + Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria

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Social Media: Nikhil Kapur

Time Stamps:

01:13 - From music major to med school to making a startup

06:30 - Poor healthcare technology = physician burnout, the motivation for building Glass Health

09:15 - Glass Notebook - "Notion for doctors"

11:24 - Building a startup in the era of Chat-GPT

13:50 - What doctors need in an AI-assisted diagnosis software

19:15 - Transition towards a more AI oriented technology - Glass AI

23:00 - How does Glass AI make accurate diagnoses?

28:40 - Why doctors need to be involved in building clinical AI products

30:50 - Practical usage of Glass AI in the clinic

33:04 - Why Glass AI will be more trustworthy than Chat-GPT in writing clinical notes

37:43 - Why LLMs don't need to be perfect for use in the clinic

40:28 - Ethical implications of Glass AI and similar products

45:34 - Should we disclose when we use AI to write a clinical note?

49:13 - What do you think the future of AI in medicine will look like in 10-20 years?

52:30 - What brings you joy? What gives your life meaning?

56:10 - Would you ever go back to being a musician?