drcharit

Cardiologist by training. Founder by necessity. Building @tricoghealth: AI that's screened 35M+ hearts across 16 countries. Still in the cath lab every week.

[drcharit @drcharit]

I've screened 35 million hearts with AI.

But the reason I built this technology is personal.

A thread. 🧵

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[drcharit @drcharit]

11 years ago, Zainul and I started @tricoghealth with a mission to touch the lives of 100 million people.

Here is how it all started:
https://t.co/CWDTFkK3wc

Today, the team at @tricoghealth have touched the lives of over 28 million people. 72 more to go.

I am incredibly proud to be part of this journey.

[drcharit @drcharit]

"Vaidyo Narayano Hari"

[TOI Bengaluru @TOIBengaluru]

#Bangalore Rural MP Dr C N Manjunath, also a cardiologist, has won public appreciation after he was spotted travelling by Namma Metro train to Whitefield to attend a hospital event.

Shouldn’t all politicians opt for public transport at least once a month?
@timesofindia

[drcharit @drcharit]

Every heartbeat deserves a chance. Until that chance is universal, our work isn't done.

If you care about AI actually saving lives — not just promising to — follow along. I'm going to start sharing what I've learned.

From the cath lab.
From building Tricog.
From the 35 million hearts in between.

[drcharit @drcharit]

In 2009, I was having dinner with my family when my phone rang. A man had arrived at the emergency room with a massive heart attack.

I rushed to the hospital. My team was already working on him. His wife stood in the hallway, holding their young daughter's hand. The girl's eyes locked on mine.

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I still practice as an interventional cardiologist at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. Every week, I'm in the cath lab.

People ask why I don't just run the company. The answer is simple: the day I stop seeing patients is the day I stop understanding what we're building.

[drcharit @drcharit]

I've screened 35 million hearts with AI.

But the reason I built this technology is personal.

A thread. 🧵

[drcharit @drcharit]

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

[drcharit @drcharit]

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul