The Doctor Who Put a Heart Attack Detector in Your Pocket with Dr. Dave Albert
About this episode
Dr. Dave Albert discusses his journey in medtech and the innovations that have brought cardiac diagnostics to personal devices.
In this episode, host Jordan Burgin sits down with Dr. Dave Albert, physician, serial inventor and founder of AliveCor, the man who put a clinical-grade ECG in your pocket. From a viral 2011 iPhone demo to a pocket-sized 12-lead ECG that can diagnose a heart attack anywhere, Dave shares four decades of skating to where the puck was going. Key Topics Dave’s path from clinical medicine to serial medtech entrepreneur The viral 2011 iPhone-ECG video that helped define “digital health” Building and exiting Corazonix, Data Critical and Lifetone Inside AliveCor’s Kardia 12L: a pocket-sized, AI-powered 12-lead ECG Where AI will reshape cardiovascular risk prediction Related Insights Why “digital health” will simply become “health” “Augmented intelligence”: using AI to find who’s really at risk The case for orthogonal innovation, looking where no one else is Distilling the wearable “data tsunami” into clinical signal Core Challenges Today’s risk tools, lipids, calcium scores, family history, still can’t reliably predict who will have a heart attack. Clinicians need AI to surface who is truly at risk, and when, so treatment can begin decades earlier. Wearables generate an overwhelming…
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