Today, I’m joined by Dr. Muthu Alagappan, founder & CEO of Counsel Health.
Counsel Health is an AI-native virtual care platform combining medical AI with human doctors to provide accessible, high-quality guidance at a fraction of traditional costs.
In this episode, we discuss building the new front door to care.
We also cover:
- AI-native primary care via messaging
- AI vs. human roles in clinical decisions
- Redefining cost and access for personalized medicine
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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:09) Muthu’s background
(01:40) What is Counsel Health
(03:08) Patient interaction and care modules
(04:27) From AI to human doctors
(05:38) The clinician side
(06:45) The clinician cockpit
(07:47) The AI healthcare landscape
(09:16) Medical information vs. medical care
(10:38) Re-aggregating fragmented primary care
(12:00) The 10x doctor
(13:45) AI autonomy
(15:00) Will AI replace doctors entirely?
(16:45) Cognitive aspects of primary care
(18:59) Recent AI healthcare product releases
(20:30) Integration challenges
(22:00) Clinical use cases
(23:15) Patient adherence challenges
(25:45) Series A fundraising
(27:15) Scarcity and value in the AI healthcare era
(28:15) Business model challenges
(30:15) Improving quality, lowering cost, and improving access
(31:00) Prevention vs. primary care
(33:00) Wearables and lab data
(34:00) Full-stack convergence vs. singular focus
(35:45) What’s next
(36:58) Conclusion
