A couple weeks ago, Michał Nedoszytko placed third globally at Anthropic's hackathon out of 13,000 participants. He was the head of cardiology at a hospital in Brussels at the time. Now he is Clinical Scientist at Abridge. On this episode of Vital Signs, Nikhil and I sat down with Abridge's CEO Shiv Rao and Michal to chat about how the hire came together, what changed with Opus 4.6 that let a cardiologist ship a working MVP in 40 minutes, and where they both think clinical AI goes next.
A couple weeks ago, Michał Nedoszytko placed third globally at Anthropic's hackathon out of 13,000 participants. He was the head of cardiology at a hospital in Brussels at the time. Now he is Clinical Scientist at Abridge. On this episode of Vital Signs, Nikhil and I sat down with Abridge's CEO Shiv Rao and Michal to chat about how the hire came together, what changed with Opus 4.6 that let a cardiologist ship a working MVP in 40 minutes, and where they both think clinical AI goes next.
(0:00) Intro
(0:19) Hackathon Fame
(3:52) Shiv Recruits Mahal
(6:30) Doctors Who Code
(9:07) Prototypes vs Production
(10:26) Regulation and Partnerships
(13:00) Customization vs Reliability
(15:59) AI Native Company Ops
(19:29) Healthcare in 10 Years
(21:08) Admin vs Clinical AI
(24:47) Payers and Prior Auth
(29:48) Training Doctors for AI
(35:19) Context, Autonomy, and Demand
(40:40) Pre-visit Workflows and Triage
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