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Podcast: Learning With Lowell
Episode: 42: 440,000 Deaths Each Year Due to Preventable Medical Errors and How One Startup, Scalpel, and It’s Founder, Dr. Yesh, is Fighting to Reduce That Number
Description: Surgery, Patient Safety, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medical errors, and Human Factors
About Yesh CEO and Founder:
"I am a generalist who builds technologies that improve healthcare. Trained as a dentist, I have over five years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare and technology (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision). I previously built a startup (Open Simulation) to provide low-cost surgical simulation using Augmented Reality. In my PhD, I designed and evaluated one of the first immersive virtual reality training tools for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. I can understand healthcare challenges from a clinical point of view and build...