48: How to go deeper with AI to reduce missed healthcare appointments in the NHS? With Dr Benyamin Deldar from Deep Medical

On this episode, we have Benyamin, a Doctor and co-founder of Deep Medical. He developed the idea for the company in 2020 alongside his co-founder, David Hanbury, who is an AI engineer. They wanted to help utilise appointments in healthcare more efficiently while being focused on finding solutions that were people-centred.

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Using AI, Deep Medical is designed to better understand human behaviour and predict who might be at risk of missing their appointments with 90% accuracy. We talk about Benyamin’s journey to developing the product, how the product works, their current rollout and their ongoing ambition to reduce health inequalities.

On the show, you’ll find out:

• Benyamin’s experience as a junior doctor
• How he started his own business in standardising care
• How he’s used AI and a patient-centric approach to find out how to prevent missed appointments
• How Benyamin found medicine despite a love of Maths & Economics
• How he found radiology through his passion for digital innovation
• How moving to the US allowed him to assess a tech-based approach to medicine
• How looking at demographic data helped him understand the barriers to appointment attendance
• How inequality, class and local environments are key to AI-based appointment allocation
• How he and his co-founder David combined their knowledge of machine learning and clinical care to develop Deep Medical
• and much much more!

Website: http://www.deep-medical.ai/
LinkedIn: Dr Benyamin Deldar
LinkedIn: David Hanbury

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