AI Series Episode 9 | "DeepScribe with Founder/CEO Akilesh Bapu"

DALL-E 3 Prompt: “A physician with a patient in the exam room looking directly in each others eyes and smiling with a computer screen displaying a typical Epic EMR screen behind the physician while the physician holds a smartphone in their hand in front of them, in pencil sketch style.”

This series features the people and leaders and/or founders behind the top Generative AI technology companies attempting to transform how we deliver care to patients and consumers. Listen to this series to learn the origin stories of these people and the product, the impact they have, and how they differentiate from the pack in this AI gold rush wave we are just about to catch.

In this episode, Adam interviews Akilesh Bapu, the CEO and Founder for DeepScribe.

Episode Summary:

• Introduction: The host, Adam Carewe, introduces the guest, Akilesh Bapu, the CEO and co-founder of DeepScribe, a company that uses generative AI to create medical documentation from patient conversations.

• Motivation: Akilesh shares his personal story of how he was inspired by his father, an oncologist, who faced the problem of spending hours on documentation every day. He also explains how he leveraged his background in AI research to build DeepScribe from the ground up, with the vision of creating the first foundational data set for medicine of patient conversations.

• Differentiation: Akilesh highlights the key features that make DeepScribe stand out from other players in the market, such as personalization, trust, accuracy, and workflow integration. He also talks about how DeepScribe has been battle-tested by over 1000 doctors across different specialties and use cases.

• Impact: Akilesh shares a story of how DeepScribe helped a clinician reduce her documentation time by 75% and her pajama time by 88%, giving her more time for her family and patients. He also discusses how DeepScribe aims to bring the joy of care back to medicine and solve the problem of broken data pipeline in healthcare.

• Future: Akilesh reveals his future vision of DeepScribe as the conversational AI platform for medicine, that can enable other applications beyond documentation, such as coding, order entry, voice diagnostics, and analytics. He also shares his perspective on the current state and potential of generative AI in healthcare and other domains.

• Conclusion: The host thanks Akilesh for joining the podcast and sharing his insights. He also invites the listeners to check out DeepScribe and get in touch with Akilesh if they are interested.