EP#8: Building AI-Led Products from Frustration & Inspiration Moments - Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver
Release Date: 02/03/2025
EP#8: Building AI-Led Products from Frustration & Inspiration Moments - Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver
LIFT
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info_outlineWelcome back to another episode of the Allison J. Taylor LIFT Podcast. In our eighth episode, Allison discusses how product innovators use frustration and inspiration to create impactful artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that blend cutting-edge technology with human connection, with a focus on the healthcare sector. As product innovators and co-authors, Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, Vice President of Innovation at Inflect Health and Vituity, and Allison delve into the challenges and opportunities faced delivering AI-led solutions to market. Find out how different industries such as healthcare, business-to-business (B2B) enterprise software, and critical infrastructure change the product management requirements and lessons learned from various AI trials.
Along the journey today, they also explore how Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver’s unique perspective as a physician, statistician, software engineer, and business leader combine clinical expertise with software engineering to transform healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes. In our conversation, we delve into the challenges and rewards of delivering AI-driven products in healthcare and B2B, the importance of ethical considerations, and how to manage unanticipated consequences. Discover recommended resources for tech sector success, as the speakers uncover lessons for product managers, innovators, and leaders, and explore how AI can transform tedious tasks into meaningful opportunities. Tune in now!
Key Points From This Episode:
• Introducing Dr. Tamayo-Sarver and his diverse expertise across industries.
• How Josh’s “quadruple play” of skills influences his approach to healthcare innovation.
• Areas of product management passion that both speakers share.
• Learn about the TTIC, its purpose, and the various books the speakers have worked on together related to cyber security, product management and technical innovation.
• Hear the story of Sayvant and the valuable product-related lessons from the experience.
• Find out how ambient documentation technology led to improved patient care.
• See why eliminating tedious tasks is essential in healthcare and B2B.
• Hear about Discerna and lessons learned in using LLMs for comparative analysis.
• Discover why balancing innovation with careful experimentation in healthcare and B2B is vital.
• Understand ethical considerations of AI and the importance of maintaining human oversight.
• Explore the parallels between healthcare innovation and critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
• Uncover how storytelling, supported by data, drives impactful marketing and innovation.
• Find out the AI trends in healthcare can impact skill development and user adoption.
Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAMIA
Guest Biography:
Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAMIA, helped develop over 35 solutions and scale multiple new healthcare products, including the first occult AI sepsis tool with FDA breakthrough designation. A Harvard graduate, he holds degrees in biochemistry, epidemiology, and biostatistics, as well as a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He currently oversees corporate venture, internal incubation, and advisory for AI-driven healthcare solutions as the Vice President of Innovation at Inflect Health and Vituity. He is an acting physician, which also contributes to his healthcare product development and research. As an author he has written chapters in multiple books for the Trustworthy Technology & Innovation in Healthcare Book series Consortium (TTIC). He holds five U.S. patents for novel health technologies and has contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed publications.
Tweetables:
“I say that I'm exceptional because I'm mediocre in four dimensions, and those four dimensions are suit, scrub, geek, and quant.” — Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver [0:04:03]
“Cybersecurity is one of the friction points that stops things from scaling.” — Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver [0:09:35]
“One of the reasons I love product innovation and delivering products to market is because you can have as many formulas and recipes as you want, but there's always something to it that's a little bit unanticipated, which makes it exciting.” — @allisonthought [0:19:21]
“I think for me, the biggest thing that I run into with AI and ethics is just a challenge to understand what AI is doing, especially around language models.” — Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver [0:23:53]
“Artificial intelligence is not intelligent at all. It has no clue when it comes to the consequences for a human and a human life.” — @allisonthought [0:26:40]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver on LinkedIn
Trustworthy Technology and Innovation in Healthcare Book Series Consortium (TTIC)
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