Recorded Health Featured on Mississippi’s SuperTalk with Gerard Gibert
- Chloe Lucas
- Aug 28
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 29
Recorded Health CEO Dr. David Theodoro sits down with SuperTalk to discuss the role of AI in the future of Mississippi’s healthcare system.
Did you know that 1.5 billion meaningful healthcare conversations are happening across America every year?
From exam rooms and clinical offices to hospital beds, these critical health-related conversations mark milestones in individuals’ lives. Yet statistics show that 90% of a conversation with a provider is forgotten with in 5 days following an appointment.
This recall problem, which results in a large “knowledge gap”, fuels a very negative impact on health outcomes and healthcare spending. Individuals and medical teams can’t rely on decisions made with siloed, fragmented, and inadequate knowledge.
To help forge a path forward, Recorded Health Co-Founder and CEO Dr. David Theodoro spoke with SuperTalk Mississippi’s Gerard Gibert to outline how Recorded Health is tackling the problem with innovative AI-powered solutions.
“WE ALL FORGET”- A HUGE PROBLEM HIDING IN PAIN SIGHT
Dr. Theodoro brings a unique perspective to this nearly universal healthcare-related memory problem. As a practicing cardiac surgeon at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, he often witnesses how even the most attentive patients struggle to remember key information about their medical condition and treatment plans. This common problem frequently limits patients’ engagement in their own healthcare journey.
The economic implications of this “crisis” can’t be ignored. Healthcare waste in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion annually, and economists estimate that 25-33 cents of every healthcare dollar is wasted. Medication non-compliance alone costs between $100 billion and $500 billion a year.
In the discussion, Gerard Gibert spoke of his own experience with a cancer diagnosis in 2006. As he recounted the challenge of accurately remembering and understanding complex medical information while processing a life-changing diagnosis, the human dimension of the problem became clear.
Individuals faced with new and serious health conditions often only partially “hear” the words of their provider and commomly cannot adequately absorb, process and place into context the information they are told. This lack of recall, understanding, and engagement is an enormous problem worth solving.
How MyDocSaid is Enabling Patient Empowerment Through Technology
As part of their effort to combat this pervasive and growing problem, the team at Recorded Health created MyDocSaid – an app that allows patients to record all their healthcare conversations with their smartphones. But this app is far more than a recording tool.
Once the conversation ends, the audio is encrypted and sent to RecordedHealth's HIPAA-compliant cloud platform. Natural language processing (NLP) converts the audio into unabridged text, and self-hosted large language models (LLMs) simultaneously create actionable patient- care summaries and research-backed insight reports.
Using Named Entity Recognition (NER) technology, MyDocSaid can identify complex medical terms and link them to trusted educational sources. Now, a patient can access a record of their conversation alongside the trusted supporting resources to give them a more completeand personalized understanding of what was said.
According to Dr. Theodoro, the MyDocsaid platform can capture and preserve “the humanity of medicine” – the natural give-and-take dialogue between patients and providers that is lost in the electronic health record (EHR). MyDocSaid also captures and maintains the extremely important semantics and context of the patient-provider conversation which greatly helps with patient understanding of and participation in their health journey.
Designed and developed entirely as a patient enabling platform, MyDocSaid places ownership and control of vitally important information into the patient’s hands greatly enhancing personal agency.
Recorded Health continues to push the frontier of patient-specific, healthcare data understanding and usefulness.
What Is Logical Data Interoperability And How Does It Improve Understanding and Usefulness?
The current US healthcare system relies on patient-specific data in the electronic health records that is unfortunately siloed, scattered in different places, and most commonly lacks important semantics and context. This problem is global: research supports that nearly 80% of the world’s health data is unstructured and difficult to access, understand, and put to use at a moment’s notice.
A solution to this widespread and detrimental health information problem is advanced “logical” data interoperability – the ability to represent the data’s true meaning, intent, semantic context, and relationship with other data.
How can this be done? According to Dr. Theodoro and his team, the solution lies in Ontology-driven Patient Journey Knowledge Graphs (PJKGs), where a patient’s entire healthcare journey information is represented, stored securely, and accessible on-demand always. The PJKG’s allows patient to fully understand and use their health-related data because PJKG’s support the use of powerful AI learning algorithms and LLM’s that let patients “talk” to and ask questions of their data.
Recorded Health is on a mission to build an ecosystem of solution providers that can weave together broader and deeper healthcare solutions – effectively creating a living and breathing healthcare ecosystem where data and experiences can be shared and used effectively to boost treatment outcomes.
Mississippi’s Opportunity To Take The Lead
A key part of Recorded Health’s mission is to keep this movement headquartered in Mississippi, where the state’s emerging leadership in AI and technology stands to help drive innovation.
The recent establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Regulation Task Force positions the state to take a thoughtful approach to AI development and deployment.
The convergence of healthcare innovation and state-level tech leadership is creating unique opportunities in Mississippi that aren’t found in other parts of the country. Companies like Recorded Health,Inc. can help spur further innovation while creating high-tech jobs and investment in the region.
Learn More and Join The Movement Today
MyDocSaid is only the first step in a total transformation of how we view healthcare in the modern world.
As Mississippi continues building its reputation as a hub for healthcare innovation and AI development, Recorded Health is taking the first step toward a rethinking of healthcare.
Together, patients, providers, and policymakers can help build a system that’s primed to reduce waste while improving health outcomes for citizens – first in Mississippi, and then across the globe.
Want to learn more? Download MyDocSaid today on the App Store and Google Play, and learn how responsible AI can bridge the gap between patients and providers.
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