The Podcast

Healthcare has a product-development problem. The people building new tools often make the important decisions before the clinicians expected to use them ever enter the conversation. Dr. Neil Parikh is working to reverse that sequence by giving physicians a meaningful role in identifying problems, testing solutions, and shaping the technology before it becomes another mandated part of their workflow.

This episode gets unusually specific about what healthcare innovation looks like in practice. Neil talks through four-to-six-month waits for GI care, AI scribes that reduce repetitive documentation, computer-assisted polyp detection, and feasibility pilots where eight out of ten ideas may fail. He also explains why testing across a network of working clinicians can produce better products than relying on feedback from the same handful of academic institutions and industry advisors.

If you’re building health technology, leading innovation in a regulated industry, or trying to create an innovation function where none currently exists, this conversation offers a practical operating model: start with the problems people repeatedly complain about, involve the end users early, test narrowly, and gather enough evidence to earn the organization’s support.

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What You Missed on Sunday

Here’s what we covered in Sunday’s newsletter edition…

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