Munjal Shah, CEO of startup Hippocratic AI, will speak at the 3rd Annual West Coast Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on February 6-7 in La Jolla, California. Shah will discuss the revolutionary impact artificial intelligence, specifically large language models, could have on the healthcare industry.
Hippocratic AI, which Shah co-founded in 2022, is developing a safety-focused AI system for non-diagnostic healthcare applications like patient education, chronic disease management, and administrative assistance. The company aims to help address shortages of healthcare professionals through “super-staffing,” using AI to expand access to quality care.
The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit brings together thought leaders and innovators across healthcare and technology. It offers a reasonable stage for Shah to examine AI’s potential medical benefits and challenges. He is expected to cover topics like:
– The ethical considerations of applying AI in healthcare
– The critical importance of safety and reliability in medicine-focused AI
– How AI could improve equity and access in the healthcare system
The summit agenda also includes discussions on subjects like dealing with large healthcare enterprises, healthcare investment trends, the impact of politics on digital health, and reinventing clinical trials with technology. Other focuses are value-based care, integrating health tech and fintech to assist affordability, and incentivizing healthy behaviors. The 2024 Digital Healthcare Innovator Award will also be presented.
Shah’s insights on AI in medicine come from his extensive background. Before launching Hippocratic AI, he built several machine learning and computer vision startups that Google and Alibaba later acquired. Munjal Shah is also an active angel investor in over 40 startups and early-stage venture funds. He holds computer science degrees from UC San Diego and Stanford, focused on AI.
Hippocratic AI, Shah’s latest venture, has $67 million in backing from top healthcare venture capital firms General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The company believes safe AI could dramatically expand global healthcare access and outcomes by making healthcare expertise ubiquitously available. As such, Hippocratic AI aims to develop the safest possible “Health General Intelligence” or HGI.
Shah’s discussion at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit will shed light on the goals of Hippocratic AI and the revolutionary potential of AI in medicine. His insights on ethics, safety, reliability, access, and equity will inform strategies for integrating transformative technologies like large language models into the healthcare system.
