Susan Conover, AI for Skin 2

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Susan Conover of Piction Health, is building an AI to improve results and reduce costs in the treatment of skin conditions. Piction has amassed 500,000 diagnosed images and is already helping primary care physicians interpret skin problems in patients. A great chat with an inspiring founder.

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Thanks Sponsors Purdue University Entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, Patent Attorney at Fish & Richardson
• Sal Daher Introduces Susan Conover of Piction Health
• Susan Conover’s History with Melanoma and the Scarcity of Dermatologists
• "What are opportunities for identifying skin diseases and how can technology help?"
• “...we help elevate every doctor to have that visual expertise of a dermatologist...”
• Piction Health’s Data Set Includes 500,000 Diagnosed Images with a Variety of Skin Tones
• “We're, right now, focused on rashes.”
• “...what makes the most sense to start with is a buyer who's realizing the value of our product now.”
• “We estimate we can save these organizations, risk-bearing organizations, $160,000 per doctor per year.”
• Piction Health Is Looking for Providers Who Have at least 50% of the Downside Risk of Patient Costs
• Looking for a Product Manager and a Senior Machine Learning Engineer
• Piction Health Is Partnering with a Big Provider to Develop Its Product Offering
• Scaling Dermatology from 40 Patients per Day to 40,000 Patients per Day
• The Value of Techstars and MassChallenge to Piction Health
• Parting Thoughts – Advice to People Who Are on “Survival Mode” at Work 

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