Empowered Patient Podcast

Ohad Arazi, CEO of Clarius, a medical imaging startup with a mission to bring accurate, easy-to-use, AI-assisted, and affordable hand-held ultrasound tools to a broad range of medical professionals. Traditional ultrasound is costly, stationary, and requires specialized training. The portable Clarius device communicates with an iPad or an Android or iOS phone. The ultrasound produces highly nuanced grayscale real-time images that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can be used safely in a wider point-of-care environment to make informed decisions. Ohad explains, "We're all about bringing together high-performance ultrasound imaging, cloud data, and artificial intelligence into this powerful ecosystem that improves patient care enabled by medical imaging in every setting. The key differentiation is that handheld ultrasound is not about replacing legacy systems in places where they're already well entrenched, like radiology or cardiology. It is rather about bringing medical imaging to new care settings an