Mara Lederman and Tomi Poutanen, at Signal 1 headquarters in Toronto, co-founded their company to figure out how to use AI to improve the health care industry.
“It’s a fantastic AI problem,” says Signal 1 co-founder and COO Mara Lederman. “We look at all the data that’s coming in on this patient: their lab results, their vitals, their age and how many days they’ve been here, and we can constantly generate a prediction of how at-risk this patient is for getting worse.”
Dr. Lederman’s Signal 1 co-founder is AI pioneer Tomi Poutanen, founder of AI research lab Layer 6 . The two joined forces to figure out how to use the AI tech stack Mr. Poutanen developed to improve the health care industry. He also noticed how the burden of note-taking negatively affected both the patient experience and doctors’ workloads. “The physician isn’t making eye contact with the patient giving their full concentration,” he says. “ physicians are completing documentation at the end of the day, when they should be winding down and spending time with their families.”
Testing on the Scrubs Co-Pilot transcription tool began in the spring of 2024 with a small number of doctors and dentists in the U.S. Mr. Chauhan and Mr. Malhotra estimate that using Scrubs Co-Pilot saves doctors two or three hours of note-taking time a day. Ultrasound typically requires specialized training to capture the right images and perform measurements to diagnose a patient’s condition, but Clarius’s AI tools can help clinicians identify and analyze anatomical structures, says Mr. Arazi.