Healthtech startups must validate on real patients, not lab results
Dr. Geetha Manjunath · Dr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection · Feb 18, 2021 · at 37:40
Dr. Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO of AI breast cancer detection startup Niramai, discusses the strict clinical validation hurdles required for deep-tech healthcare ventures.
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“Clinical efficacy of the result is very, very important. We can't say we will do a health tech startup and go with the lab level, you know, result, you know. Trying to show this work on real patients of walking into a hospital and trying to show that your solution is in some form, maybe result wise, experience wise, anything, in some form it's better than the current solution. Showing that cannot be in your slide deck or inside a lab, you know, it has to be on the real ground.”
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