Summary

Healthcare’s biggest challenge isn’t technology—it’s the fundamental imbalance between elastic demand for care and a fixed global supply of clinicians. In this episode of Analyzing Healthcare, host Jason Schifman sits down with Ali Parsa, Founder & CEO of Quadrivia AI and previously the founder of both Circle Health and Babylon Health, to examine how AI can finally shift this equation. Parsa describes how Quadrivia is building real-time, autonomous clinical agents capable of handling 20–30% of repetitive clinical tasks—from pre-op readiness calls to post-op follow-ups, symptom discussions, lab result explanations, and wide-ranging clinical conversations. These agents operate under strict guardrails, oversight layers, and configurable clinical boundaries—supporting clinicians rather than replacing them. The discussion also explores global deployment across the U.S., UK, Europe, and Asia, why thoughtful scientific iteration matters more than Silicon Valley hyper-growth, and how lessons from Babylon’s rapid scale and SPAC collapse shaped Quadrivia’s disciplined approach. Parsa closes by articulating his belief that AI will finally make essential healthcare accessible and affordable for every person on earth by expanding the supply of clinical labor.

What You’ll Learn

✅ How AI can automate 20–30% of routine clinical tasks

✅ Why “elastic clinical supply” may redefine global healthcare

✅ Where AI safely supports clinicians—and where it must stop

✅ How autonomous agents manage real-time clinical conversations

✅ Why Quadrivia rejects hype-driven growth in favor of scientific rigor

✅ How global pilots across continents accelerate model reliability

✅ Lessons from scaling Circle and Babylon into billion-dollar businesses

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Timestamps

• (00:00) – Intro | Meet Ali Parsa, Founder & CEO, Quadrivia AI

• (01:04) – The Global Supply–Demand Crisis in Healthcare

• (05:33) – Quadrivia’s AI: Automating Key Clinical Processes

• (07:46) – Handling Structured Workflows & Free-Form Clinical Conversations

• (09:35) – Clinical Boundaries: What AI Can & Cannot Do

• (11:53) – Telehealth vs. AI: Access vs. Affordability

• (14:25) – Will AI Move Closer to Diagnosis?

• (18:09) – Global Footprint: U.S., UK, Europe & Asia

• (19:32) – Accuracy, Guardrails & Real-Time Oversight

• (25:44) – Rejecting the Silicon Valley Growth Playbook

• (29:13) – Why Global Pilots Accelerate Learning

• (33:25) – Deploying Across Countries: What Translates & What Doesn’t

• (35:57) – Go-to-Market: Choosing the Right Partners

• (37:45) – Live Demo: AI Handling a Real-Time Patient Call

• (46:50) – Human Error vs. AI Error: The Risk Conversation

• (51:35) – Lessons from Circle & Babylon

• (55:20) – Closing Vision: Universal Healthcare Access Through AI

Key Takeaways

• 💎 AI can safely automate a meaningful slice of clinical workloads

• 💎 Elastic clinical supply is the real unlock for global access & affordability

• 💎 Guardrails, oversight agents & real-time monitoring are essential for safety

• 💎 Telehealth expands access; AI finally addresses cost and scalability

• 💎 Global deployments expand the learning dataset dramatically

• 💎 Thoughtful, slow, scientific iteration outperforms hype-driven growth

Resource Links

Guest: Ali Parsa – ⁠linkedin.com/in/ali-parsa-qu⁠

Host: Jason Schifman – ⁠linkedin.com/in/jasonschifman⁠

Organization: ⁠www.scale-healthcare.com⁠

Podcast Hub: Analyzing Healthcare by SCALE Community

Guest Bio

Ali Parsa is the Founder & CEO of Quadrivia AI, pioneering autonomous clinical process automation to expand global healthcare capacity. He previously founded Circle Health & Babylon Health, and has focused his career on solving healthcare’s supply–demand imbalance by using AI to automate routine clinical tasks and greatly expand clinician reach.