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CEO of Viva AI, Had a fling with Bleep back at BitTorrent | Built a healthcare software baby & sent it off to college 💸 | Run, jab 🏃🥊

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2013
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For the past several years, I’ve been building AI products for healthcare. One pattern kept repeating itself. Practices would buy an AI scribe. An AI receptionist. An AI chatbot. An AI scheduling assistant. Each tool looked impressive on its own. Yet somehow the organization itself wasn’t meaningfully different. That made me realize something: Healthcare doesn’t have an AI problem. It has an architecture problem. We’ve become very good at adding AI to individual tasks. We’re much less good at redesigning how healthcare organizations actually operate around AI. That’s the idea behind a framework I’ve been developing called Operations-First AI. Its central premise is simple: Healthcare becomes AI-native from the operations up, not from the algorithm down. Clinical AI is incredibly important, but it delivers its greatest value when it’s built on an operational foundation that can actually put those insights into action. This article is the foundation for a series I’ll be publishing over the coming weeks on topics like: The Healthcare AI Maturity Model Why organizations plateau at AI-Assisted Humans Decide. AI Operates. AI Sprawl Why some healthcare organizations will become AI-native much faster than others I’d love to hear where you agree—and where you think I’m wrong. Read the article here: faridfadaie.com/2026/07/13/w… #HealthcareAI #ArtificialIntelligence #HealthTech #Operations #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation
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Everyone talks about AI replacing doctors. That’s the wrong conversation. The biggest impact of AI in healthcare today is happening behind the scenes: • Answering patient calls 24/7 • Scheduling appointments • Reducing no-shows • Automating documentation • Supporting clinical decisions • Monitoring patients remotely • Streamlining revenue cycle operations These aren’t flashy demos. They’re solving real problems that healthcare organizations deal with every day. I’ve put together a practical overview of where AI is actually delivering value today—with real-world examples instead of hype. If you’re building, investing in, or deploying AI in healthcare, I’d love to hear what you’ve seen working. Article: faridfadaie.com/2026/06/25/a… #AI #Healthcare #HealthTech
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Voice AI is becoming a systems engineering problem. After rebuilding the same production voice agent multiple times, I found that most architectural failures came down to one question: Who owns the next turn? Multiple subsystems? A deterministic state machine? The model itself? I wrote a deep dive on the architectures we tried, where they broke, and why we ended up with a model-centric approach: faridfadaie.com/2026/06/10/a… Would love feedback from others working on agents and realtime systems. @swyx @fanahova @simonw
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Excited to announce that we have closed our financing round for Viva AI to bring AI into dental offices to manage all admin work. getviva.ai/ We are hiring engineers (full stack, windows applications) and QA automation. #AI #dentistry #HealthcareInnovation
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Remember Bittorrent Bleep? The cool cousin of messaging apps. 📡 @elonmusk, imagine that charm in @Twitter! Whispering tweets, anyone? 🤫 #TechAlchemy
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That feeling when you find a cool new app and can’t stop playing with it. Like finding a treasure chest in Zelda. 🗺️ #TechTreasures
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⚙️ "Why did I write this code like this?" – Me, looking at my past self. Can someone invent a time machine already? 🕰️ #ThrowbackCode
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As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
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First time driving my model 3 with auto Lane change. It's so very good in crazy 101 conditions. Thanks @elonmusk @Tesla
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Most articles about @Tesla and @elonmusk doing bad seem to be from a specific group of journalists. I can almost certainly guess what the article wants to say when I look at the author without reading it. (And I am saying it as someone with a recent bad experience with @tesla)
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I just witnessed a homeless person coming into a store in #sf, grabbing a sandwich, and walking out while the store manager was scared of saying anything. Is this a thing now?
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Crypto currency is a good investment for big funds that can manipulate the market. Super high risk for the mass.
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When you think you can't possibly do more, and you are for forced to, you see that you can. #startups
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Aside from the pain of changing habits, @inboxbygmail is more practical than @gmail if you have more than 30 emails per days that matter from 200+ that you receive. Just gotta trust that @inboxbygmail doesn’t miss much (hope it doesn’t)
While admitting that I randomly made some money from @Bitcoin it's just crazy. Now there is @dentacoin?! Why? The website has the most number of nonsense buzzwords that I've read on a single webpage for a while. Many people will lose a lot of money in these ICOs.
Thank you @FBI for protecting our city. You guys rock.
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