Simon Kos
Global Chief Medical Officer, Heidi at Heidi Health
Simon Kos is global chief medical officer at Heidi Health, the Sydney-founded ambient clinical AI company whose scribe technology processes around two million clinical notes a week across 116 countries. An AHPRA-registered doctor who practised critical care medicine, he previously served as global chief medical officer of Microsoft in Seattle and as a physician executive at Cerner, and was chief executive of Next Practice. He holds an MBBS and BSc(Med) from UNSW and an MBA from AGSM, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. On What The Health, Kos discussed HealthGPT and what changes now that AI is table stakes in healthcare.
Career
- Now Global Chief Medical Officer, Heidi · Heidi Health
- From 2010 Chief Medical Officer (previously Health Industry Manager) · Microsoft
- Earlier · Startup Co-founder · Lumyra AI
Sources: news.microsoft.com
Key moments
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- 0:00 Introducing the What the Health Wrap
- 0:07 Guest updates: Heidi's global expansion and life in general practice
- 3:03 The fortnight's five biggest headlines
- 5:11 Heidi's Pressure Points report: adopting AI ahead of governance
- 6:16 Busting the myths about clinicians and technology
- 10:11 Where general practice is heading: voice by default and deeper consults
- 13:00 Patients are bringing their own AI to the consult
- 14:21 Health in ChatGPT and big tech's move into consumer health
- 18:33 Consumer-grade versus clinical-grade care and the regulation gap
- 23:41 Bupa's shift from health insurer to health company
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