AWS Health Innovation Podcast

Alex Merwin shares important news about his journey and reveals exciting updates about the podcast's future.

Learn how Plex Research combines PageRank-style algorithms with AI to navigate the complexity of biomedical data, transforming untapped research potential into validated drug discovery opportunities.

Graph Therapeutics combines AI-driven perturbation modeling with multi-omics data to develop targeted therapies for patients with complex immune-mediated diseases who currently lack effective treatment options.

Acorai is pioneering non-invasive cardiac monitoring technology that combines multiple sensors and machine learning to transform heart failure management, making critical pressure measurements accessible and continuous.

Through their groundbreaking Carbon Mirror platform, BioCorteX is transforming pharmaceutical development by understanding how bacteria influence drug effectiveness across diverse populations.

Discover how QuantHealth's simulation-based platform is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research by virtually testing clinical trial protocols, optimizing study designs, and predicting outcomes before trials begin.

Galen Data's comprehensive cloud platform empowers medical device companies to centralize data, maintain compliance, and accelerate time-to-market.

myTomorrows combines AI with healthcare expertise to solve the complex challenge of matching patients to clinical trials, making advanced treatment options more accessible worldwide.

xCures revolutionizes healthcare data management by using artificial intelligence to unlock, organize, and analyze patient information trapped in disconnected systems, improving care.

Generate:Biomedicines is pioneering generative biology at the intersection of AI and medicine, creating breakthrough therapeutics by designing and testing millions of proteins simultaneously.

BioIntelliSense is revolutionizing remote patient monitoring through their medical-grade BioButton® wearable device, delivering continuous vital sign trending and AI-powered clinical intelligence for both hospital and home care settings.

Inari Agriculture is working to solve the critical issues of food security and sustainability through AI-powered predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing, creating seeds that maximize yield while minimizing environmental impact.

Eolas Medical's digital platform organizes the world's medical information, making healthcare simpler, safer, and smarter. Discover how they're revolutionizing point-of-care access to critical medical knowledge for over 200,000 healthcare providers.

Shift Bioscience is a biotech company focused on developing cell rejuvenation therapies to defeat the diseases of aging through novel gene-based interventions.

Lumen's cutting-edge technology measures metabolism in real-time through breath analysis. Discover how this innovative health tool is empowering users with personalized insights and transforming the approach to metabolic wellness.

Sensi.AI’s 24/7 Care Copilot provides home care businesses a 360-degree understanding of a senior’s physical, emotional, and cognitive needs, empowering them to age safely in place.

Atropos Health is reshaping healthcare by providing on-demand evidence from real-world data, elevating clinical outcomes and accelerating research. Learn how their AI-powered platform is closing critical evidence gaps and revolutionizing medical decision-making.

Discover how Kaleidoscope Bio's innovative software is reshaping R&D processes by seamlessly organizing projects, tracking key decisions, and managing experimental data across various tools and teams in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors.

Sword Health's AI-powered platform offers remote monitoring, virtual PT sessions, behavioral health support, and personalized care plans for treating chronic pain.

Rune Labs leverages real-world data and digital biomarkers to revolutionize the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, enabling personalized and data-driven care.

Anterior is transforming healthcare with AI that understands clinical jargon, delivering value by automating administrative tasks like prior authorization that cost over $1 trillion annually.

Leveraging an AI-powered immune profiling platform, IMU Biosciences creates unprecedented insights into health and disease by measuring and analyzing the immune system at an unparalleled scale and resolution.

Proprio's proprietary platform provides surgeons with insightful, responsive information in the operating room, aiming to significantly improve patient outcomes and surgeon wellbeing by enhancing surgical performance and precision.

Relation leverages single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning to better characterize diseases and develop transformational medicines.

Automata's LINQ platform integrates lab instruments, robotics, and cloud software to streamline scientific workflows and accelerate drug discovery research.

Perspectum enables non-invasive "virtual biopsies" that provide safer, more accessible disease monitoring for conditions like liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper is an FDA-approved cradle that tracks baby's sleep, sends alerts, and automatically soothes with womb-like motions.

PhaseV is pioneering the use of reinforcement learning, causal ML, and adaptive trial design to optimize resource utilization and time efficiency in drug development.

MDI Health has developed an innovative AI solution used by payers and value-based providers to optimize medication management, identify high-risk patients, and reduce overall healthcare expenditure.

Ikerian is pioneering the use of non-invasive retinal imaging and AI to identify biomarkers that can predict disease progression and treatment response.

Ibex AI's Galen™ platform demonstrated outstanding outcomes in clinical studies and helps pathologists and providers reduce diagnostic errors, implement real-time quality control, reduce diagnosis time and boost productivity.

Zoundream's solution uses AI to analyze infant cries and sounds in real-time, pinpointing reasons such as hunger or tiredness with remarkable accuracy, and detecting early signs of conditions like autism.

Featuring Mendel, Akrivia Health, Epistemix, Ovation, and Evidation Health, this episode explores how innovative companies are leveraging real-world data and AI to drive precision medicine, uncover new treatments, and improve population health outcomes.

Explore how CareJourney, Aidoc, Forward, CLEW, and Thyme Care leverage cutting-edge technologies to optimize clinician and patient experiences, driving better outcomes and transforming healthcare delivery.

Featuring Deep6 AI, Lokavant, and Science 37, this episode explores how these companies are leveraging AI, data analytics, and decentralized models to revolutionize clinical trial recruitment, operations, and patient accessibility.

Explore how Us2.AI, Truvian Health, and Sparta Science leverage AI, cloud, and novel biological insights to revolutionize diagnostics and biomarker discovery, enabling accessible and precise care pathways.

Dive into the groundbreaking approaches of companies like VivoDyne, Seer, Ordaos, Insilico Medicine, and Alchemab, who are pushing boundaries in drug R&D through microfluidic bioengineering, proteome mapping, AI-driven drug design, and resilient antibody discovery.

Mendel enables life sciences to index patient journeys at scale and learn from them at the speed of real-time dialogues. The journey started in 2017 from a two-person office in Silicon Valley with commitment to building novel technology and not to be another “Boy Who Cried Wolf” AI company. To do that, we have invested 4 years and millions of dollars in R&D before launching our first model in 2020. Today, Mendel is the most-funded clinical NLP startup with a team of 100+ members, blue chip investors, and some of the world’s leading life sciences companies as customers.

Vivodyne, a biotech firm employing bottom-up self-assembly principles to grow complex tissues that better mimic human physiology, enabling the study of systemic effects like immune responses and linking multiple tissue systems.

Iktos is an innovative company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence solutions applied to chemical research and new drug design, enabling major productivity gains in upstream pharmaceutical R&D.

DeepLife uses machine learning to curate and annotate single-cell RNA-seq datasets, enabling downstream bioinformatics analysis and target identification.

LabVoice develops a hands-free voice assistant that provides a common human-lab interaction for scientists, enabling voice-assisted workflows and hands-free access to lab software and data.

Ordaōs, a human-enabled machine-driven drug design company leveraging GenAI and AI/ML to design and build mini proteins as therapeutics for biomedical research and drug discovery.

CareJourney provides healthcare analytics solutions that leverage claims data to enable value-based care delivery organizations, hospitals, health plans, and life sciences companies to improve care quality and reduce costs.

Quin Wills, Co-Founder & CSO of Ochre Bio, joins us to discuss their use of deep analysis of liver genetics and precision RNA design to develop new therapies for liver diseases like hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Bluesight's software platform connects data across medication manufacturing, ordering, inventory, dispensing and administration to help hospital pharmacies reduce costs, ensure compliance and improve safety. Kevin shares how this unprecedented visibility enables customers to reduce waste, ensure compliance and detect drug diversion.

Prospection is a healthcare analytics company that converts data into actionable insights by applying machine learning to hundreds of millions of patient histories to predict future health events years in advance.

Akrivia Health provides research data, clinical trial optimization, and molecular characterization for mental health and dementia. We speak with David Newton, COO & Co-Founder of Akrivia Health, about how they use AI to process free text notes into structured data, all while safeguarding patient privacy.

Vim is building an ecosystem to connect healthcare applications and workflows. Co-founder and CEO Oron Afek shares the story behind Vim's evolution into a healthcare "app store" now reaching over 20 million patients.

Scispot offers a no-code workflow automation platform for BioTechs to digitize and automate their workflows. The company's platform automates mundane administrative tasks, centralizes company-wide data, templatizes routine research and collaborative documentation, enabling companies to make processes more efficient and reproducible.