23andMe’s former No. 2 dives into AI in medicine

Andy Page spent five years at the right hand of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki. His next act, after a stint at the health tech company Livongo, is leading a startup that promises to democratize ultrasounds with the aid of artificial intelligence.

As STAT’s Matthew Herper reports, the company is called Caption Health, and it has developed a device meant to allow practitioners with relatively limited training to take high-quality ultrasounds of the heart.

AI’s potential in medicine is little secret, but the specific allure of Caption was the startup’s focus on a tractable problem, Page said.

“Knowing it was a trend that was coming, my thought was that to really impact health care, the AI implementation would have to be straightforward, understandable, practical, trusted,” he said. “And that’s exactly what the company was doing.”

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