Episode 06 - Life Saving Algorithms

AI may not be able to cure diseases, well, at least not yet. But it could help identify a problem well in advance and much before it becomes too late. How? By helping doctors, hospitals, trawl through massive data and images and thereby efficiently screening patients that need immediate care. In other words, AI can make diagnosis faster and in healthcare, time is hope and hope is everything.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral & Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Gabriel Vaz, a retired journalist based in Bangalore
• Prashant Gupta, program director for Microsoft Cloud
• Dr. Sujoy Kar, the Chief Medical Information Officer of the Apollo Hospitals group
• K Chandrasekhar, Founder and CEO of Forus Health
• Subadra Kalyanaraman, Manager with a consulting firm based in Chennai

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:

1. Cardiovascular disease in India: A 360 degree overview - PMC (nih.gov)
2. General cardiovascular risk profile for use in primary care: the Framingham Heart Study
3. Apollo Hospitals has launched an Artificial Intelligence tool to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease
4. 3nethra classic | Forus Health
5. e-Eye Kendram | Tele-Ophthalmology centres | Apollo Tele Health
6. Microsoft uses AI to diagnose cervical cancer faster in India
7. Quest Global Enhances its Lung Nodule Detection Solution Using Microsoft Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge and Azure Machine Learning

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