The IDAA Hub Podcast: AI in Finance & Healthcare
Join IDAA Hub as we explore the cutting edge of AI adoption in finance and healthcare. Each week, we bring you conversations with innovators, founders, and industry leaders who are transforming these critical sectors with artificial intelligence. From startup success stories to enterprise implementation strategies, we decode the complexities of AI integration and showcase products making real-world impact. Whether you're a healthcare executive, fintech founder, or AI enthusiast, discover actionable insights on building, scaling, and deploying AI solutions that matter. Hosted by Deepti & Deepak this is your gateway to the future of intelligent healthcare and finance
Episodes
19 episodes
Two Playbooks: Go Broad or Go Niche — Who Wins? | Tempus AI vs. Valar Labs
Two companies chasing the same mission — getting the right cancer treatment to the right patient — with two completely opposite playbooks. One raised $1.3 billion to build an empire. The other ships FDA-recognized diagnostics with a seven-perso...
What Cost Would You Put on the Care That Saved Your Son?
A team of doctors saved Atul Gawande's infant son. In that moment, he says, every one of them deserved a million dollars. The actual bill was $250,000. He paid $5.📧 Connect with HostHost Deepti Kalghatgi : https://www.linkedin.com/in/de...
Abridge — From AI Scribe to the Operating System for Medicine
In this new Innovation & Startups series, we break down Abridge — one of the fastest-growing AI startups in healthcare today.📧 Connect with Host Host Deepti Kalghatgi :
Who Owns Your Health Data? LLMs, Data Access & Venture Capital with Dr. Timothy Martens (Part 2)
15 years ago, getting your medical records meant visiting the hospital, signing forms, and walking out with a photocopied stack of 5,000 pages. Today you can import the same data into an LLM and ask it what's wrong with you. That shift — and ev...
Healthcare Is NOT About Care - Part 1 with Dr Timothy Martens
What if the healthcare system was never built to make you healthier?In Part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Timothy Martens — congenital heart surgeon at Northwell Health, Director of Data Strategy & Innovation at Cohen Children's Me...
Hospital Revenue Loss, Cerner Blind Spots & How AI Innovation Can Fix These Issues
Hospitals lost $48 billion in revenue in 2025 from claim denials alone — a 25% increase year over year. In this episode we break down why Cerner EMR hospitals are structurally exposed to this problem, and how AI innovation is being built to fix...
Why Credit Unions Choose a Startup Over a Big Vendor? - Part 2 with Nupur
Big vendors have the brand name.The sales team.The client list.So why credit unions walk away from all of that — and bet on a startup instead?Because brand names don't customize for you.Startups do.In Part 2 of this IDAA...
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Credit Unions vs Banks: How Big is the AI Adoption Gap?, Part-1 with Nupur Daruka
Banks are years ahead of credit unions in AI adoption — but why? And what does it actually take for a credit union to catch up? In this episode of the IDAA Hub Podcast, host Deepti sits down with Nupur Daruka — a credit union technology executi...
What Moats Matter for AI Startups? - Part 3 with Svetlana
What makes an AI startup truly defensible in 2026?Not your tech stack. Not your prompts. Not your UI.In this episode, AI strategist Svetlana Makarova — who built and scaled AI solutions at Mayo Clinic — breaks down the only three co...
AI Adoption is SOARING, But, Where's the ROI?- Part 2 with Svetlana
If you've invested in AI and you're wondering why your P&L isn't showing the gains you expected, this episode is for you.Svetlana Makarova, AI strategist who scaled solutions at Mayo Clinic, breaks down the biggest paradox in enterprise...
Ex-Mayo Clinic AI Strategist Reveals: How to Scale AI Solutions Across Enterprises
Join us as Svetlana Makarova, AI strategist and former Mayo Clinic leader, shares her incredible story of breaking into healthcare AI and achieving remarkable success in one of the most regulated environments on earth.🎯 What You'll Learn:
What Guardrails Does AI in Credit Underwriting Need?
Part 3 of our conversation with Kelly Cochran, Research Director at FinRegLabAs AI systems in financial services grow increasingly sophisticated—from traditional machine learning to generative AI and agentic systems—the question of guard...
Can AI Agents Make Financial Decisions for You? What's Really Happening with Agentic AI Systems | Part 2 with Kelly
Should AI be allowed to move your money without asking first? It's not a hypothetical question anymore—agentic AI systems are already operating inside financial institutions, and consumer-facing applications aren't far behind.In Part 2 o...
AI in Finance with Kelly Cochran (Part 1): Why Creditworthy Borrowers Get Rejected
The Credit Access Crisis You Didn't Know ExistedIn Part 1 of this conversation, Kelly Cochran drops a truth bomb that changes everything: Millions of creditworthy people are getting rejected for loans right now—not because they wo...
Hospitals Save Millions, You Save Thousands - The Medical Billing Secret Nobody Tells You
$2,500 for a painkiller. $10,000 for a routine procedure. All because nobody told you the ONE question to ask. This episode could save you thousands—or help your hospital recover millions.🎯 THE GAME-CHANGING CONVERSATION:Have yo...
Claims, Denials & Out-of-Network Nightmares: Will AI Replace RCM Jobs?
AI in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management: With Claims, Denial management and out-of-network nightmares, Will AI replace jobs?Is AI really transforming healthcare revenue cycle management, or is it just another buzzword? In this episode...
Who is Responsible when AI makes Medical errors? - Ethical AI conversation with Dr. Neil - Part 2
In Part 2 of our conversation on the IDA Podcast, we continue our compelling discussion with Dr. Neil about AI in healthcare. Dr. Neil doesn't hold back as he addresses the critical ethical questions facing the healthcare industry in the age of...
If AI Was My Junior Resident, I'd Fire Him - Dr Neil, A Surgeon's Take on Real State of Healthcare AI
🚀 "IF AI WAS MY JUNIOR RESIDENT, I WOULD'VE FIRED HIM"Brutal honesty from Dr. Neil Mukherjee—and exactly what healthcare needs to hear about AI right now.In this unfiltered conversation, Dr. Mukherjee (Director at Northwell Heal...
Healthcare Beat Silicon Valley at AI: The $1.4B Data Breakdown
🚀 HEALTHCARE AI JUST EXPLODED—AND 80% OF THE MARKET IS STILL UNTAPPEDHealthcare organizations are now deploying AI at 2.2X the rate of other industries. In just 12 months, adoption jumped from 3% to 22%—a 7X increase. $1.4 billion in sp...
