How AI is Transforming Healthcare with Moleen Madziva | E. 64

Viz.ai is a tech company on a mission to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered through AI. Senior Director of Global Clinical Affairs, Moleen Madziva shares strategy and insights with Jim Cagliostro. 

 

Episode Introduction 

 

As AI continues to reshape healthcare, Moleen explains how Viz’s cloud based system drives efficiencies in patient care, and reveals the unique mobile app with a critical impact on surgeon decision making. She also explains why hospitals must allow the data to lead, how Viz.ai systems work in parallel with clinical workflow and why ‘’kindness wins’ permeates the company’s approach to building relationships. 

 

Show Topics

 

• How our lived experiences shape healthcare leadership
• Detecting disease on a medical image with AI 
• Enhancing patient care with a mobile app 
• Allowing the data to lead
• The importance of human connection
• Inspiring change with personal integrity 
• Getting everyone on the same page 

 

05:04 How our lived experiences shape healthcare leadership

Moleen recalled how her community upbringing taught her the real meaning of wealth and empowered her for her role at Viz.ai. 

 

‘’I was born and raised in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, so shout out to all my fellow Zimbabweans out there. We are really flying the Zimbabwe flag high. I'm based out here in the US and currently living in Southern California. I was raised in a small village called Macheke and I really lived under communitarian community that really honored what it meant to have each other's back. It wasn't until much later as I was growing up that I realized how wealthy and how rich I was because my upbringing was really filled with so much love and care and really nourishing me with culture that has really been shaping generations for so many centuries, but in such a way that even now as someone in technology and clinical research, I realize that all of those lessons have really empowered me for the type of leader that I am, but also for how I visualize doing ethical clinical science.’’

 

 

07:56 Detecting disease on a medical image with AI

Moleen explained how Viz.ai’s cloud based system drives care efficiencies.

 

‘’So our mission at Viz is to bring lifesaving treatments to patients. …So think of it this way, when a patient comes into the ER for example, they get a medical image like a CT scan. That image actually is shipped to the Viz system that sits in the cloud, and from there it is processed and almost pretty much in real time the care coordination team, the physicians and everyone else in that system is able to get the notification for them to be able to start deciding what to do for the patient. One of the things that we're talking about when we say we drive efficiency in care is that we are bringing all the key stakeholders for that care coordination in one place, in a HIPAA-compliant platform where everyone can communicate and be able to really drive efficiency in how patients are cared for. So that's one piece.’’

 

 

10:18 Enhancing patient care with a mobile app 

Moleen explained how the Viz app enables surgeons to make critical decisions from anywhere in the world. 

 

‘’So we have a mobile app also it's available through the web where the rest of the team that's actually put onto to the Viz system are able to see within their clinical hospital system what they need to be doing for the patients that they get the notifications for. So in many ways it's really more about bringing key stakeholders into one place so that they can actually be able to effic