AI in Healthcare: Will it work for you? - E721

AI in Healthcare: Will it work for you? - E721

Author: Jeremy Au August 13, 2026 Duration: 25:44

What is technology actually doing to healthcare, and what can it still not touch?


Four conversations from the BRAVE archive, on the gap between what medicine can do and what a doctor actually has time to do.


Dr. Thomas Kelly walked away from vascular surgery to build Heidi, an AI scribe and care partner now used by clinicians in more than 100 countries. He argues a doctor's paperwork is a patient safety problem, not an inconvenience. Jay Fajardo started over as a solo founder at 58 to attack "pajama time," the 40% of a doctor's day that disappears into admin. Ed Booty spent two years learning that a pure-play tech platform will not reach a rural village, and rebuilt reach52 around community health workers instead. Joshua Wang works upstream, on why we keep catching cancer too late to treat it well. And Dr. Tom closes on what it actually takes to make medical AI work across Malay, Hokkien, English and Singlish.


00:00 Intro

00:40 Dr. Thomas Kelly: paperwork is stealing clinical capacity

04:47 Jay Fajardo: pajama time and the 40% problem

09:59 Edward Booty: why pure-play tech doesn't reach rural patients

14:32 Joshua Wang: we catch cancer far too late

19:53 Dr. Thomas Kelly: Malay, Hokkien and Singlish, and the cost of localisation

25:19 Outro


Watch the full episodes:


E716 Dr. Thomas Kelly, Co-Founder & CEO of Heidi Health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5jzWf4V_Y


E694 Jay Fajardo, Founder & CEO of BetterClinic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIOCY_LtObM


E502 Edward Booty, Founder & CEO of reach52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pE0LFpCp_Q


E628 Joshua Wang, Founder & CEO of Verimmune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXPyXASiRk


Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/ai-in-healthcare 


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