HealthTech2Care Podcast featuring Stephen Randall, Founder & CEO of Medaica
Stephen Randall (Guest):
🌐 Medaica: https://www.medaica.com
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenrandall1
Bert Fernandez (Host):
🌐 HealthTech2Care: https://www.healthtech2care.com
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-fernandez
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HealthTech2Care
🎙 In this episode, Stephen Randall shares what led him to launch Medaica—a response to fragmentation in healthcare, his own family history of heart disease, and a belief that diagnostics should be accessible, scalable, and platform-driven. He also walks through the moment when a Medaica device—placed on his chest like a digital stethoscope and equipped with sensors + an early AI prototype—flagged a murmur missed by both EKG and cardiologist, later confirmed by an echocardiogram as early-stage aortic stenosis. Stephen's vision goes beyond building smart tools. It's about delivering a solution that fits real clinical workflows, empowers earlier action, and fuels long-term research through a goal to collect a billion heartbeats and breaths.
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 Personal story: how a missed murmur diagnosis sparked Medaica
01:45 Fragmented systems, family history, and building a unified AI platform
04:44 Why AI-enhanced auscultation is the triage tool we've been missing
07:12 The case for home diagnostics: EKGs, digital stethoscopes, and telehealth 2.0
10:00 FDA-cleared sensor + AI platform: early traction and use cases
11:55 Stephen's own murmur story—caught by AI, missed by his cardiologist
13:56 Who Medaica is focused on: 65+, rural, and veterans
16:25 Reframing AI: not replacing doctors—enabling them
18:31 Biggest hurdles: provider buy-in, payer economics, and workflow integration
23:41 What's next: the "billion heartbeats and breaths" mission
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