Medical-grade AI in healthcare: Medcast on Talking HealthTech
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In this episode of the Talking HealthTech podcast, recorded live at Digital Health Festival 2026, host Peter Birch sits down with Dr Stephen Barnett, CEO of Medcast, to explore what it takes to build AI that clinicians can genuinely trust. The conversation examines why safe, medical-grade AI requires far more than large language models alone, covering the importance of evidence curation, retrieval-augmented generation, governance, and clinical validation.
Together, they discuss how Medcast is helping bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and real-world clinical practice through trusted, evidence-based tools that support healthcare professionals at the point of care.
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