Empowered Patient Podcast

Sean Cassidy, CEO and Co-Founder of Lucem Health, is applying AI to identify patients at high risk of undiagnosed conditions like cancer and diabetes.  The goal is to facilitate earlier diagnosis and treatment by flagging patients that need screening based on the AI plaform's ability to analyze EHR data and demographics of diverse patient populations to ensure broad scalability. This technology was designed to integrate into existing clinical workflows for established screening procedures rather than making direct treatment recommendations.  Sean explains, "The origin of the company, the idea for the company, originated within Mayo Clinic in about 2020. Mayo Clinic has faced a challenge, and I think sometimes continues to face a challenge that a lot of researchers in AI have faced, which is how do you get promising AI in a clinical context from the so-called bench to the bedside? How do you get it from the lab into clinical practice? And what they realized was that while the data science and the AI part of i