The Business of Health with Chip Kahn
About this Episode
Episode 8, AI Series: How can AI determine who gets matched to new therapies, who is identified for clinical trials, and how patient tracking is scaled across large populations? Chip is joined by Dr. A.J. Blood, a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AIwithCare, a startup company that delivers AI-enabled solutions for research, clinical operations, and patient care. They discuss the role of AI in identifying patients for clinical trials and new therapies—which is typically a critical bottleneck in drug development—as well as how to ensure clinical trials are representative. Also, Dr. Blood shares insights from his extensive research background and the tool, RECTIFIER (RAG-Enabled Clinical Trial Infrastructure for Inclusion Exclusion Review), designed to enhance patient recruitment for clinical trials by efficiently sifting through complex medical data.
The Host
Charles N. Kahn III is a senior visiting fellow at KFF. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He serves as co-chair of the international Future of Health collaborative.
Guest
Dr. Alexander J. “AJ” Blood is Co-founder and CEO of AIwithCare, a startup company that delivers AI-enabled solutions for research, clinical operations, and patient care. Additionally, he is a cardiologist and intensivist in the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as the associate director of the Accelerator for Clinical Transformation research group. Dr. Blood also serves as the director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, critical care medicine, and obesity medicine, Dr. Blood is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Blood completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke University and fellowships in cardiovascular disease and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned his medical degree from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Additionally, he holds a Master of Science degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University.
SERIES
This weekly podcast features insightful conversations between host Chip Kahn and his guests, who discuss the business of health care, connecting the dots between the health care business, policy, and patients.
The podcast’s first series on AI in health care illuminates how AI is changing health care, and features guests who are deploying this technology, managing its consequences, and designing policy around it.