Harjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors - Voicebot Podcast Ep 161

Harjinder Sandhu founded Saykara in 2015 but his journey into
healthcare and voice began in 2000 when he founded Medremote
which used speech recognition and machine learning to automate
physician notes transcription for medical documentation. That
company was eventually acquired by Nuance in 2006 and Sandhu
stayed on as the healthcare group CTO until 2011. He then was a
co-founder of a patient engagement platform called Twistle which
is still operating today.


 


But, the draw of voice technology advances led him to Saykara
where he and his team are building a voice assistant for doctors
and other clinicians. It's a great conversation about specialty
assistants, the importance of workflow in healthcare, and the
tech stack required to serve this highly demanding user
base. 


 


Sandhu earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Toronto and was a professor of computer science at York
University before becoming a startup founder.