AMD’s Subh Bhattacharya on Building the Medical Devices of Today and Tomorrow

On today’s episode of the Medical Imaging for All podcast, Ohad speaks with Subh Bhattacharya, Lead, Healthcare & Sciences at AMD, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. They discuss current trends in medical device creation, including a deep dive into the hardware, chips, and processors that make medical imaging devices like ultrasound, CT, and MRIs run. They also discuss how AI is being integrated into those devices and its current applications in assisting physicians, as well as the need for better cybersecurity in healthcare.

Topics discussed:

• Subh's twenty-five year career in the technology industry, from designing microprocessors for Intel, to building a modular healthcare information systems platform start-up, to joining AMD to drive initiatives around healthcare, medical systems, and life sciences.
• AMD's presence in the medical space and how they're "the brain" behind a number of diagnostic tools and equipment like AEDs, medical PCs, and more.
• The challenges to building smaller medical devices that have enough horsepower, can hold enough data, and that can provide results in real time.
• How AI is being integrated into medical devices today, and its use cases in assisting with surgery, alleviating radiologist fatigue, and calculating volume measurements — and why it still needs more data and better accuracy to truly grow.
• Why the future of healthcare will not only focus on AI, but will need to address cybersecurity across IT and OT infrastructures as well.
• How AMD is addressing security through trust, encryption, isolating code, compliance, and creating bottom-to-top solutions across each market.