STAT September 17, 2024
Casey Ross

‘The Pitch’ spotlights how new technologies, including AI, could improve patient safety

Reetam Ganguli once pitched his technology, to rescue women from pregnancy complications, in an airplane bathroom. He often works all night, when other recent college graduates are partying. And he sometimes goes weeks without seeing his girlfriend — or any friend at all.

But in the midst of his sacrifices, things are looking up.

Ganguli’s story as a startup founder is the centerpiece of a new documentary from the makers of “To Err is Human,” a 2018 film about patient safety that followed a 1999 landmark report of the same title by the National Institute of Medicine. The sequel, titled “The Pitch,” spotlights how a new generation of...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Safety, Technology
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