Roupen Odabashian, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“The best healthcare AI won’t be built by engineers. Controversial, I know. But hear me out.
At MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack, the teams that won weren’t the ones with the best code. They were the ones with a clinician who understood the workflow they were designing for.
Engineers build for the problem as described. Physicians build for the problem as lived.
There’s almost always a gap between what an AI demo shows and what actually happens in a 15-minute visit with 30 patients on the list. Physician-builders close that gap instinctively. This doesn’t mean engineers aren’t critical. It means the founding teams that win will have a clinician who codes, not just a coder who consulted a clinician.
The technical fluency changes everything about how you evaluate, build, and invest in this space.
Are you a clinician learning to build? I want to hear what you’re working on.”
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