48: How to go deeper with AI to reduce missed healthcare appointments in the NHS? With Dr Benyamin Deldar from Deep Medical

15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators

On this episode, we have Benyamin, a Doctor and co-founder of Deep Medical. He developed the idea for the company in 2020 alongside his co-founder, David Hanbury, who is an AI engineer. They wanted to help utilise appointments in healthcare more efficiently while being focused on finding solutions that were people-centred. Using AI, Deep Medical is designed to better understand human behaviour and predict who might be at risk of missing their appointments with 90% accuracy. We talk about Benyamin’s journey to developing the product, how the product works, their current rollout and their ongoing ambition to reduce health inequalities. On the show, you’ll find out: Benyamin’s experience as a junior doctor How he started his own business in standardising care How he’s used AI and a patient-centric approach to find out how to prevent missed appointments How Benyamin found medicine despite a love of Maths & Economics How he found radiology through his passion for digital innovation How moving to the US allowed him to assess a tech-based approach to medicine How looking at demographic data helped him understand the barriers to appointment attendance How inequality, class and local environments are key to AI-based appointment allocation How he and his co-founder David combined their knowledge of machine learning and clinical care to develop Deep Medical and much much more! Website: http://www.deep-medical.ai/ LinkedIn: Dr Benyamin Deldar LinkedIn: David Hanbury Connect with Vinay: Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co/ Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor