The Business of AI in Healthcare

Using AI to Detect Heart Abnormalities in 7 Seconds: The 15-Year-Old Founder Building Circadian AI

In this episode of The Business of AI in Healthcare, Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Siddharth Nandiala, the 15-year-old founder and CEO of Circadian AI, a healthcare AI company working on early cardiovascular screening. Siddharth shares how a childhood interest in STEM, coding, and entrepreneurship led him to build technology that uses iPhone-recorded heart sounds to help identify potential heart health abnormalities. The conversation covers AI in healthcare, preventive screening, rural healthcare access, clinical validation, FDA pathways, and the role of young innovators in shaping the future of medical technology. This episode explores how artificial intelligence may help expand access to heart health screening, support clinicians, and bring earlier detection tools to communities that need them most.

Fixing the Black Box of Health Insurance with AI: Insights from Ty Wang

Ty Wang, co-founder and CEO of Angle Health, reveals how AI is rewriting employer-sponsored health insurance for small businesses—bringing faster quotes, transparent pricing, and custom plans once reserved for Fortune 500 companies. From Palantir to healthcare, Ty shares why rising premiums, hidden costs, and outdated systems created the perfect opportunity for disruption. If you’re an employer tired of unpredictable renewals, this conversation offers a smarter path forward.

AI Powered Voice Biomarkers for Clinical Decision Support with Henry O'Connell

In this Season 3 premiere of The Business of AI in Healthcare, Dr. Robert Kaiser sits down with Henry O’Connell, CEO and Founder of Canary Speech, to explore one of the most talked-about frontiers in healthcare AI: voice biomarkers. Together, they unpack how speech and language analytics can unlock medically meaningful signals, what it takes to move voice-based AI from research to real-world clinical workflows, and why this category is becoming increasingly relevant across neurology, behavioral health, and cognitive health. If you’re a healthcare leader, innovator, investor, or technologist tracking AI diagnostics, clinical decision support, and the future of digital health, this conversation will sharpen how you think about what’s coming next. Topics include: voice biomarkers, vocal biomarkers, speech analytics, AI in healthcare, clinical validation, ambient listening, machine learning in medicine, neurology, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression screening, and clinical adoption.

Reinventing Physical Therapy Notes with AI: Insights from Christina Rama

In this episode of The Business of AI in Healthcare, PT‑turned‑tech founder Christina Rama [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-rama-dpt/]explores how AI can finally bring physical therapy documentation into the 21st century. She shares hard truths about why talented PTs are burning out and walks us through a clinician‑led AI platform designed to restore time, energy, and clinical focus to rehab professionals. If you care about the future of rehab, clinician workload, or digital health innovation — this one will change the way you think about PT notes.

Real-Time Air Data: How AI Lets Us See What We Breathe

In this episode of The Business of AI in Healthcare Podcast, Dr. Bob Kaiser sits down with Kris Klein [https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisklein/], CEO and Co-Founder of Pollen Sense [https://www.pollensense.com/], to explore how AI and real-time air data are transforming the way we understand and manage allergies, asthma, and environmental health. Kris shares how her team built a patented AI-powered sensor system that captures live pollen and mold data—empowering researchers, clinicians, and even everyday users to make better health decisions. From climate change’s impact on allergy seasons to the AI models driving real-time detection, this episode dives into how data, innovation, and healthcare intersect to help us all breathe easier.