Ep 18 | GenAI Series | Pieces Healthcare | Dr. Ruben Amarasingham | Founder/CEO

Dr Ruben Amarasinghamion | Founder & CEO - Pieces Technology

This podcast episode features a conversation between the host, Adam, and guest, Ruben, discussing Ruben’s company, Pieces Technology, which specializes in Inpatient healthcare AI including:

1. Pieces Working Summary

2. Pieces Discharge Identifications

3. NEW: Working Progress Note

4. NEW: Pieces in your Pocket

5. And several more! (And some Ambulatory Pieces are coming too!)

Here’s a summary of the episode:

• Ruben’s Background: Ruben shares his early entrepreneurial ventures with his brother, including database programming and animation for local companies, which sparked his interest in building things and customer interaction.

• Pieces Origin: Ruben narrates his journey from being a physician to creating Pieces. He combines his deep interests in medicine, computer science, and writing to develop predictive models and software aimed at improving healthcare delivery.

• Pieces’ Functionality: The company focuses on generating concise clinical summaries, intelligent predictions, and to assist healthcare professionals (Nurses, Care Coordinators, and other clinicians/physicians.) These summaries help in handoffs, shift changes, and understanding patient risks.

• Innovative Approach: Pieces differentiates itself by offering a ‘hallucination guarantee,’ ensuring low error rates in their AI-generated summaries. They also utilize an adversarial AI to check for errors, with a human oversight layer for additional safety.

• Future Developments: Ruben hints at upcoming features, including ambient AI capabilities and visual LMS, aiming to further reduce the administrative burden on healthcare workers and improve patient care.

• Impact on Healthcare: The technology developed by Pieces is designed to right-size clinical staff capacity, reduce administrative tasks, and allow healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care.

• Vision for Healthcare: Ruben expresses hope that their technology will help alleviate the moral injury faced by healthcare workers and bring back the joy of practicing medicine.

The podcast concludes with Adam appreciating Ruben’s insights and contributions to healthcare innovation. Ruben invites listeners to reach out and engage with Pieces to learn more about their product offerings.