AliveCor’s Priya Abani Uses Amazon Experience to Democratize ECG Tech
episodePreviously titled “AliveCor’s Abani Uses Amazon Experience to Democratize ECG Tech” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 6, 2026
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What is AliveCor and what technology do they develop?
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Welcome to another episode of the Vanguards of Healthcare series. My name is Matt Henriksen, the Medical Technology Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, which is the in-house equity research platform of Bloomberg LP. We are pleased to have with us today Priya Abadi, CEO of AliveCore, a privately held medical device company developing AI-enabled electrocardiogram or ECG sensors. Priya, thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. And so, Priya, you've been at the helm since 2019, but what was the career path that led you to your CEO role here?
A great question. Um, so from an early age, I had a passion for math and logic. Um, I've said this before, but my father was the first person in my life to notice the spark. Um, he taught me basic when I was just 12 year old. Um, and, um, I think it was almost like a, you know, igniting your curiosity about complex yet simple systems. Um, And it's all about problem solving using technology. So I've had a long life, which talks about my age, at semiconductor companies like Intel. I went ahead and worked at Amazon. And I think Intel and eventually Amazon basically, you know, kind of like taught me how technology interacts with the human experience. So at Amazon, I helped launch a product that became a household name.
I think we've all heard about Alexa. And it was not just about developing the product and scaling the product. It was all about customer obsession. So it's the idea that you don't build for the sake of tech, but you build to solve a friction point in a human's life. And it helps you start developing a pattern for scaling. And at Amazon specifically, we were talking about decoupling services from hardware. So when I started talking to the investors of AliveCore, because I've been very fascinated by the healthcare delivery system and what happens here, I saw this intersection of my background in AI and scale And then, you know, like basically intersecting with a deeply meaningful mission and a very similar approach where you have pieces of hardware that collects sensor information about the patients.
But then what do you do with that data and how do you use AI to make that data insightful, intelligent and give it back to the user? So that's kind of what we have been doing. So we built tools that put medical-grade insights directly into patients' hands, enabling them to capture an ECG, their blood pressure measurement, anywhere, share results with the doctors in seconds. And then after that, it's about actions and services. So this is really exciting. When I joined in 2019, Eliacor was basically a hardware manufacturer. And today we are a premier AI-powered heart health provider. So we've gone way past just detecting simple arrhythmias. We're now, you know, we have now pushed our AI to the point where we identify life-threatening conditions like heart attacks.
And we had the courage to seek FDA clearance for all of this, right? So we moved from a one, you know, trick, one arrhythmia thing to enabling real-time informed cardiac decisions that save lives every single day.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is AliveCor and what technology do they develop?
0:00–11:26
2
How has Priya Abani's experience at Amazon influenced her leadership at AliveCor?
11:26–28:51
3
What advancements have been made with the Kardia 12L device?
28:51–31:18
4
What is the significance of the new Category III reimbursement code?
31:18–37:28
5
How does AliveCor's technology democratize access to cardiac care?
37:28–49:28
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