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Chapter 1: What is Lotus Health AI and its role in healthcare?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer.
Chapter 2: How does ChatGPT influence patient interactions in healthcare?
Today on the podcast, I wanna talk about a company called Lotus Health, which has just raised $35 million. And they have this thing where essentially this AI doctor is going to be seeing patients. It's doing it for free.
Chapter 3: What vision does Lotus Health have for AI in primary care?
It's kind of going viral on X for a bunch of different reasons. So today on the podcast, I wanna break down what they're gonna be doing. Is this the future of AI in healthcare?
Chapter 4: How does Lotus Health's operational model ensure compliance?
Is this actually something that's going to get a lot of usage, and kind of where are people at with using AI for healthcare today. So we're going to get into all of that on the podcast today.
Before we do, I wanted to mention, if you've ever wanted to build an AI tool and you're not a developer like myself, I'm not a developer, I created AIbox.ai, my own startup, where you can explain any tool or workflow you want to create, anything that you do on a repeated basis, and our tool can link together multiple AI models, input multiple prompts, and create a tool that you can use to repeat that process over and over again.
In addition, just like ChatGPT, we have a chat interface where you get access to over 40 of the top AI models, everything from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, 11 Labs for audio, tons of cool image models. All of it's on there for 20 bucks a month and you can chat with all of them in the same thread.
Chapter 5: What regulatory challenges does Lotus Health face in the healthcare landscape?
So you can switch between Anthropic for tone and OpenAI for research in the same thread and it's $20 a month. So I'll leave a link to that down in the description if you wanna try that out. I hope that saves you a ton of money not having to switch between different subscriptions and also a ton of time having everything in one central hub. All right, let's get into the episode.
Chapter 6: How is AI transforming patient experiences and doctor accessibility?
So the thing that I think is important to kind of preface all of this by saying is that today we have like a growing amount of people, tons, that are already going to things like ChatGPT and, you know, anthropic and basically using those as a first stop for everything that you're doing, especially in health.
If you're going to be doing, you know, checking for symptoms, if you have medication questions.
I know for myself, when my kids are sick, I don't go to WebMD like I used to. Also, I just feel like WebMD always would tell me that either, you know, there's no problem or I was going to die of cancer if I didn't immediately go to the emergency. And so I just feel like it was, sometimes if you just put in your, whatever your issues were, WebMD had some pretty extreme responses.
ChatGBT seems to be doing a really great job with that. And I think what a lot of people find is that,
Chapter 7: What innovative features does Lotus Health offer through its AI doctor?
You know, these aren't doctors. Chai Chippity is not a doctor, but it can have really impressive medical context. It asks really impressive smart follow-up questions. And I think it also helps the user, like if you're using it, it helps you articulate and say what your concerns are going to be.
And some of these things, which I thought was an interesting point I was talking to someone recently about, and they're like, Sometimes when you're using ChatGPT and it has kind of these follow-up questions, if you had like a really rushed appointment at the doctor, you might have missed asking some of these questions, some of your concerns, and so you could get all of that out to ChatGPT.
There's been a ton of really interesting cases where people have been seeing specialists for many, many years, couldn't diagnose or figure out what their issue were, And they went to chat GPT, listed out just everything, had a conversation, and it finds kind of these specialized diagnoses, which ended up being correct.
Chapter 8: What is the future potential of AI in healthcare according to the episode?
So it is a fantastic tool. I think this is a really big behavioral shift. And because of all of this, KJ Diwali is trying to build this new company, Lotus Health. So his background is that he initially sold a dating app called D-Mill. This is kind of a South Asian dating app. He sold it back in 2019 for $50 million.
And after that, his interest in healthcare, he said, is something that he's kind of always been curious about. He said when he was a kid, he often acted as a translator for his parents during doctor visits. And he said, because of that, that kind of showed him a lot of the early friction, the time pressure, a lot of the communication issues that were kind of baked into the US healthcare system.
And so he said, when modern LLMs arrived, when ChatGPT came out, he saw them less as this chatbot and more as an opportunity to kind of rebuild primary care from the ground up. This was kind of his vision. So he actually started the company in May of 2024, Lotus Health AI.
And essentially, he kind of just set this out and was like, hey, look, this is a free, always on, it's like your primary care provider, but it's available 24-7 in 50 languages. And this week, he just announced $35 million in a Series A. So the company is growing. He's got some phenomenal investors. The round was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, of course, top tier VC firm.
And that totals up to like his past raise plus the Series A, about $41 million, so he's raised total for it. Tons of people, I think, are already asking AI about their health. And I think this was evidenced by the fact that OpenAI just came out with OpenAI help. Anthropic is doing something similar.
And so I think Lotus is kind of looking to go a little bit further than just conversational advice. What they're trying to do is actually be designed as... you know, something that can translate your chats into real clinical outcomes.
So you can go chat with it and it is going to be able to give you a diagnosis and it's going to be able to give you like prescriptions, which is really crazy if you think about it, like the AI model will be able to prescribe you. It's going to be able to do lab orders and refer you to specialists. Now, I know there's probably a ton of, we'll talk about some of the compliance issues in like
the craziness that goes into all of that but if you think for a minute you know what this would what what the outcome of this would be diagnosis prescriptions lab orders referrals to specialists i mean this is basically everything you need a primary care doctor for and so i think a lot of times like i love the vision here because a lot of times when you talk about like oh yeah ai is like helping it's like yeah it could be like informational but then you still have to go tell it call a doctor like i my wife and i have done many times
Call a doctor, explain everything that ChatGPT said. They're like, okay, you're probably right. And they move you along. And it's like, yeah, wouldn't it be phenomenal if I could have just talked to the AI and been able to go get the prescription and not have to pay someone and talk to someone because, you know.
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