Reducing Hallucinations and Streamlining Drug Discovery Workflows with Generative AI - with Asif Hasan of Quantiphi
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Release Date: 02/22/2024
Leading Bold Change and Human-Centered Innovation in Healthcare - with Dr. Imamu Tomlinson of Vituity
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Dr. Imamu Tomlinson, CEO of Vituity and President of the Vituity Cares Foundation. Vituity is a physician-owned multispecialty partnership with 6,000+ clinicians across 690 locations. Dr. Tomlinson joins Emerj Editorial Director Marilie Fouché to unpack leadership for driving AI-enabled innovation in healthcare’s slow ecosystem. Dr. Tomlinson also shares practical takeaways like channeling “disagreeableness” into questions, celebrating early data wins for buy-in, and using AI to offload transactional tasks — freeing time for empathy and human-centered decisions...
info_outline
Reducing Audit Friction and Driving Accountability with AI in Healthcare – with Yasemin Agatan of AdaptHealth
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Yasemin Agatan, Senior Vice President of Internal Audit at AdaptHealth, a provider of home medical equipment, supplies, and related services supporting patients living at home. Yasemin brings extensive experience in audit, compliance, and operational risk management within the healthcare sector. She joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss how enterprise leaders can leverage data and AI to improve audit workflows, enhance transparency, and manage risk more effectively. Yasemin also highlights practical approaches for organizations, including improving data...
info_outline
Driving AI from Pilots to Business Impact in Pharma – with Alyssa Fenoglio of Teva Pharmaceuticals
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Alyssa Fenoglio, VP, Global Head of Digital Commercial at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Teva is a global pharmaceutical company delivering both generic and specialty medicines across more than 60 countries. Alyssa joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to discuss the unique challenges of digital transformation in life sciences and how organizations can leverage data and AI to create real business impact. She also shares practical strategies for securing leadership support, linking AI pilots to measurable business outcomes, and building cross-functional teams to drive...
info_outline
Driving Audit Workflows in the Era of Agentic AI and IoT for Healthcare - with Yasemin Agatan of Adapt Health
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Internal audit sits at the crossroads of regulation, data, and business outcomes—nowhere more than in healthcare and medical devices. Yasemin Agatan, Sr. Vice President of Internal Audit at AdaptHealth, joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to unpack what an “AI-ready” audit looks like in one of the most complex and regulated environments. Yasemin lays out today’s top pressures: rapidly shifting FDA and HIPAA requirements, thorny revenue recognition and reimbursement models, multi-party contracts, and a deluge of device and platform data. She then maps where AI is already...
info_outline
Dangers of Unchecked AI Development When Politics Meets Machine Learning - with John-Clark Levin of the Yorktown Institute
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
In this episode of the AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences podcast, host Matthew DeMello speaks with John-Clark Levin, Fellow at the Yorktown Institute and researcher at Kurzweil Research, about the intersection of U.S. politics, AI development, and biosecurity. Levin outlines why the coming years may prove decisive for artificial general intelligence (AGI) and how political volatility under the current administration could directly impact AI safety and regulation. He explains the unique risks of authoritarian tendencies in shaping AI policy, particularly when it comes to epistemics—how...
info_outline
Bridging the AI Trust Gap in Life Sciences Workflows - with John-Clark Levin of Kurzweil Technologies
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is John-Clark Levin, Research Lead at Kurzweil Technologies. Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. (KTI) is a research and development company developing and marketing technologies in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. In this episode, John-Clark unpacks the challenges of deploying AI in healthcare, focusing on reliability, risk tolerance, and the gap between model performance and real-world trust. He explores why even small error rates can derail adoption in high-stakes settings and how legal, institutional, and educational barriers often slow progress more than the...
info_outline
Human-Centered AI and the Path to Transformation - with Francesco Tisiot of Aiven
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Francesco Tisiot, Field CTO at Aiven. Aiven provides fully managed, open-source data infrastructure on all major clouds. Their platform enables organizations to scale quickly, securely, and cost-effectively — freeing teams to focus on delivering AI applications and business outcomes. Francesco returns to the program to share a pragmatic perspective on AI adoption in highly regulated industries. He outlines how generative AI can eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate decision-making, and improve employee engagement — without compromising trust or compliance. From co-pilot...
info_outline
Adopting AI Safely and Effectively in Life Sciences - with Francesco Tisiot of Aiven
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Francesco Tisiot, Field CTO at Aiven. Aiven provides fully managed, open-source data infrastructure on all major clouds. Their platform enables organizations to scale quickly, securely, and cost-effectively—freeing teams to focus on delivering AI applications and business outcomes. Francesco joins Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello on today’s show to discuss what it takes to responsibly adopt AI in highly regulated sectors like life sciences. Francesco shares insights from working across verticals and explains why starting with a clear understanding of data boundaries...
info_outline
The Role of AI in Educating the Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals - with Rhett Alden of Elsevier
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Rhett Alden, Chief Technology Officer at Elsevier. Elsevier is a global leader in information analytics and academic publishing, providing trusted scientific, technical, and medical content for researchers, clinicians, and professionals. Rhett returns to the podcast to explore how AI is reshaping healthcare education by bridging the gap between emerging technologies and traditional training methods. In this episode, Rhett shares how Elsevier is applying generative AI to enhance procedural training for healthcare students and professionals while emphasizing the continued...
info_outline
Solving AI Transparency Challenges in Healthcare Data - with Rhett Alden of Elsevier
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences Podcast
Today’s guest is Rhett Alden, Chief Technology Officer at Elsevier. Elsevier is a global leader in information analytics and academic publishing, providing trusted scientific, technical, and medical content for researchers, clinicians, and professionals. Rhett joins us on today’s show to discuss how Elsevier is tackling hallucinations in AI frameworks to deliver reliable, peer-reviewed medical and scientific information. Alden explains how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models differ from large language models (LLMs), ensuring that AI-generated responses are grounded in verifiable,...
info_outlineToday’s guest is Asif Hasan, Co-founder of Quantiphi. Quantiphi is an AI-first digital engineering company that designs AI-driven services and platforms for broad applications across industries. In conversation with Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella, Asif discusses reducing hallucinations in healthcare language models and the latest developments in AI’s impact on drug discovery for rare disorders. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from the insights in this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and let us know what you learned or liked most about this show or what you’d like to see in the future.