Matthew Sappern: There are a lot of people who feel that artificial intelligence and machine learning is much further along than it really is. There is so much data out there right now. I think that’s an important first step. There’s data and there’s actionable data or what some of my colleagues call the ground
Sramana Mitra: We’re seeing an increasing amount of AI applications in the healthcare IT domain. I don’t know if you’re familiar with this announcement that we recently made of a European partnership with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and their digital health arm. 115 companies from Europe are going to be accelerated within the
Sramana Mitra: In the healthcare space, where are some of the other areas where you see the possibilities of this kind of pattern recognition and interventions based on pattern recognition? Matthew Sappern: There are so many. Take the ICU for instance. You walk into an ICU. A typical patient has multiple telemetry devices hooked up.
Matthew Sappern: Where computers are so helpful with that, as you can imagine, is computers don’t get tired. They’re not getting coffee or arguing with someone. They look at the same series of data the same way every time. Once we figured out the ability to interpret these waves, we’re able to let the doctors
I have been talking about the applications of AI on Healthcare IT problems. Here is a great case study. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as PeriGen to our audience. Matthew Sappern: I’m the CEO of of PeriGen. PeriGen is a software developer. We make software as a medical device.
Perigen is an amalgamation of a couple of different companies. This story relates how the entrepreneurs navigated a long journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by telling us a little bit about your personal background. I’d like to do that with both of you since you are co-founders. Matthew Sappern: Just for clarity’s sake, Emily developed