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You know how in JAMA recently it said that 25% or more of health care spending is frittered away wastefully? Some of that wasteful spending comes from unnecessary care. And some of that unnecessary care happens when a patient is misdiagnosed and then, based on that misdiagnosis, gets care for the wrong thing. And \u201cwrong thing\u201d care obviously isn\u2019t going to fix the actual problem because its intention is to fix something else.

How do some of these misdiagnoses occur? Considering all of the diagnoses that begin with an MRI or a CT scan or an ultrasound or some other kind of imaging, it\u2019s not hard to gin up thought that if a radiology report or radiology veers into the \u201cnot exactly correct\u201d zone, then you have a treatment plan immediately zipping off on a poor-quality and likely wasteful trajectory.

That\u2019s what I speak with Ron Vianu about in this health care podcast. Ron, by the way, is the founder and CEO over at Covera Health. We don\u2019t have time (Ron and I) to get into the AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning in radiology aspect, but (spoiler alert) a follow-up on that is forthcoming.

Ron Vianu is the CEO and co-founder of Covera Health and a serial entrepreneur and problem solver by nature. He has spent the last 20+ years founding ventures in the health care, technology, and insurance spaces. Ron studied chemistry and philosophy at NYU.