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Why Clinical AI Safety Has to Be Proven Not Assumed

Oct 7, 2026
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In clinical AI, saving money means nothing if the system is not safe enough to trust with a patient's life. So how do you actually prove it is?

In this clip from our episode “Voice AI Is Expanding Access to Healthcare”, host John Driscoll and Munjal Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, break down the safety testing standard Hippocratic built before shipping a single clinical AI interaction, and why they do not go live until the AI outperforms the human.

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🎙️⚕️ABOUT MUNJAL SHAH
Munjal Shah is co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, a generative AI startup building safety-focused large language models for healthcare to improve patient outcomes, lower costs, and address the growing clinician shortage. Hippocratic AI has raised $278M from General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins, and its LLM outperformed GPT-4 on 105 of 114 healthcare exams and certifications. Shah is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Like.com, an AI-powered visual search engine acquired by Google in 2010, and Health IQ, an AI platform helping seniors identify optimal Medicare Advantage plans. He has also been a seed investor in over 42 companies and 23 venture funds, with notable exits including Scopely ($4.9B), Reify Health ($4B+), and Kabam ($1B+). He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and an MS in Computer Science with a focus on AI from Stanford.

🎙️⚕️ABOUT CARETALK
CareTalk is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy. 

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