E516 Josh Ransom, VP of Customer Experience and Board Member at BEKhealth

Today's guest is Josh Ransom, VP of Customer Experience and Board Member at BEKhealth. Founded in 2020, BEKhealth are a team of technologists, data scientists, nurses and clinical operations experts on a mission to significantly increase patient access to clinical research by enhancing sites and sponsors ability to “identify and match” more patients. They achieve this through leveraging their AI-powered patient-matching platform to detect more protocol-eligible candidates than traditional methods.

Josh is a dynamic, solutions-focused leader with deep experience at Fortune 500 and emerging pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, diagnostic and life-sciences companies. He is an AI and analytics expert who is passionate about delivering on research goals through more rapid identification of clinically-qualified patients. Josh and the team at BEKhealth are on a mission to positively impact the lives of 100 million people by organizing the world’s medical data to expand access to clinical research.

In today's episode, Josh talks about:

His background leveraging big patient data for medical insights and advancements,

How BEKhealth's AI platform integrates patient data for clinical research,

Applying AI to improve patient recruitment in healthcare research trials,

His proudness of the team's AI superiority over industry giants,

How the engineering team enhances NLP for larger datasets & facilitates trials,

What makes BEKhealth a great place to work