Portrait No. 001
Jyothi Devakumar
Founder and CEO
Healthy Vignettes
I want to make practice of Medicine Patient first as the system is built to serve them. My cofounder is a medical doctor who quit her practice to join me as she resonated with the idea. We want to make data driven, personalized and predictive model based care the basis of healthcare. Ai has created unforeseen opportunities for developing these and leveled the paying field in unimaginable ways
In her words
“Medicine must evolve from treating illness to safeguarding potential. My mission is to build systems that place patients at the center, anticipate risk before crisis, and turn chronic disease from a lifelong sentence into a preventable exception.”
Chapter I
The toughest challenges you've faced as a founder.
Judgement- lack of equal opportunities. Even within female founders tiers that exist that take away opportunities. Lack of mentorship as everything comes with a cost and the journey of a founder is a finely balanced equation that has finances, resources time, network, opportunities, geographic location, team all as variables in that equation. Most of us who embark on this journey have excelled before and understand the cost and thrill leadership brings and the impact of motivating others in the team to embark on similar journey. While everyday brings in its own challenges, and reality checks, I personally find this to be most rewarding phase of my life and wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world
Chapter II
Your vision.
The silos that exist with data, expertise, access, information and knowledge flow, intelligence hidden in deeper layers in compartments, monopolies are extensive and unique in healthcare and medicine. Ai has opened up novel ways of accessing and analyzing multimodal, noisy and imperfect patient data across time points. We, at healthy vignettes understand this problem and are creating novel tools to facilitate data handling and building intuitiveness and intelligence to augment the physicians to treat the patients with better efficiency and precision. Once our models are validated in the hospital setting, we will create patient facing tools to truly democratize healthcare by making patients as the true stakeholders as physicians
Chapter III
The impact you want to leave behind — for your industry, your community, and the women who come next.
We want to teach our daughters and younger adults that dreaming big irrespective of the country of origin and other disparities is not just possible but is the winning strategy. Bring a woman is a strength than weakness. Being hit by a chronic disease need not be limiting but just another variable one has to factor in to their daily life. Hospitals are not needed to treat chronic diseases as most management can be done with the help of AI and there need not be a huge lag between healthspan and lifespan. Well earned last few years of life need not be spent in compromised lifestyle but can be celebrated irrespective of which part of the world you live in.