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Disclosure
DeepScribe sees more impact fine-tuning in-house LLMs than GPT-4
“So with GPT-IV, to be honest, we haven't gotten the impact we'd like in terms of fine-tuning. Where we've seen the most impact is with our own in-house LLM.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 16:49 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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Bapu: Healthcare AI risks triggering another wave of clinician AI burnout
“It also runs the risk of that same burnout occurring again.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 4:42 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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Bapu: Healthcare AI lacks proven system-wide adoption despite strong sales
“People are definitely buying but what's not shown yet is whether these solutions can gain true system-wide adoption.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 4:51 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Disclosure
DeepScribe CEO: AI achieved parity with human scribes, enabling full automation
“A couple months ago for the first time achieved parity with our AI and our expert human scribes, at which point we took them out of the loop. And so now DeepScribe is fully automated”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 9:35 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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DeepScribe ended offshore reviewer contracts as clinicians stopped requesting human review
“Clinicians are barely sending the note to the human to review, yet we were keeping that option. We're keeping this like base level contract with our offshore suppliers. So we decided to officially make the move and that's when we started to see complete shift.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 11:15 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Disclosure
DeepScribe discards LLM output if it lacks classical model validation
“So for a given task, we'll have a classical model typically produce that that same output. And then if the LLM puts in something that the classical model didn't have in its output we'll go ahead and only go with the classical model's output and disregard the L…”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 24:30 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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Bapu: Apple Vision Pro adoption in health systems will probably never happen
“It depends on Apple's Vision Pro adoption across its customer base of health systems which probably will never happen, sadly.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 25:08 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Disclosure
DeepScribe drafts off Nuance's enterprise market education to win health clients
“We really ride off the backs of Nuance, which is the 800 pound gorilla in our space that is trying to do something similar to what we're doing, but they have the distribution advantage. So they've gone and educated all the customers, and we follow on and basic…”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 28:14 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Disclosure
DeepScribe initially targeted private practices because large health systems ignored AI startups
“At DeepScribe, a lot of our initial journey was actually through private practices. So we sidestepped health systems because the sales process and the go-to-market Just wasn't there with these large, larger organizations because they didn't take us and other h…”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 1:35 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Insight
Removing humans from the loop requires designing products without safety nets
“In order to get the human on loop, we had to be intentional about it. We had to start building around the fact that a human won't be there anymore.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 10:45 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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DeepScribe has gathered over 2.5 million labeled medical conversations
“And we have a little over two and a half million conversations right now. They're all labeled.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 15:52 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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Bapu: Only 50% of oncologist documentation comes from direct conversations
“But if you look at oncologist, about 50% of their information comes from the conversation. About one fourth comes from a summary that they would have done, and then another fourth may come from previous visits.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 22:02 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Disclosure
DeepScribe grew from zero to $6M ARR purely through inbound marketing
“We bought AdWords on Facebook and Google and all of our traffic and all of our initial sales from I think zero to six million in ARR came from inbound.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 27:18 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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DeepScribe achieves nearly 100% patient consent rate
“Through that, we've been able to get basically a hundred percent consent from patients”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 29:41 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Assertion Partly supported
Bapu: 30% of CMIOs are evaluating and purchasing generative AI
“Now there's a stat floating around that 30% of CMIOs, which is for us, our customer are now looking at generative AI solutions and looking to purchase generative AI solutions.”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 2:09 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
Assertion Partly supported
Bapu: HLTH conference attendance expanded 20x from 2019 to 2023
“Back in 2019 it was around 500 people in terms of attendance. It was at the MGM Convention Center, which is fairly small. This past year, it was 10,000 people in attendance so literally, 20 x'd in size”
Akilesh Bapu Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 3:01 AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
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