Dr Dom Pimenta on Why NHS IT Systems Fail and Building AI That Actually Helps Clinicians

Episode 31: Dr Dom Pimenta on Why NHS IT Systems Fail, Building AI That Actually Helps Clinicians, and the Gap Between Innovation and Implementation

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🎯 NHS IT failure | AI clinical documentation | Clinician founder journey

Discover how Dr Dom Pimenta, a former NHS cardiologist, left clinical practice to build Tortus AI — an intelligent ambient voice interface for clinicians backed by Entrepreneur First and Khosla Ventures. In this episode, we explore why NHS IT systems fail frontline staff, what it takes to deploy AI in live clinical environments, and the reality of raising venture capital as a doctor — essential insights for clinicians considering healthtech entrepreneurship.

What happens when a cardiologist realises NHS IT is failing patients — and decides to build an AI clinician that actually listens?

💬 What frustrated you most about NHS IT systems? Drop a comment below! 👍 If you're a clinician considering healthtech, hit like so more doctors can find this.

In this episode of Out of Programme, Dr Dom Pimenta shares his journey from NHS cardiology to founding Tortus AI. From his Catholic upbringing and childhood obsession with death that led him to medicine, through the frustration of watching IT systems fail patients, to building an AI voice interface that actually helps clinicians rather than adding to their workload.

🔍 What You'll Learn:
✅ Why Dom left a secure NHS career to build AI technology from scratch
✅ How Entrepreneur First helped a doctor become a venture-backed founder
✅ The ethics of AI in healthcare and why "human-in-the-loop" matters
✅ What deploying AI in live clinical environments actually looks like
✅ How ambient voice interfaces could transform clinical documentation
✅ Dom's advice for clinicians considering the leap into healthtech

💡 The Catholic upbringing that led Dom to medicine — and why he eventually left 🧠 Watching NHS IT fail clinicians and patients: the breaking point 🔧 From doctor to founder: the Entrepreneur First experience ⚖️ AI ethics in healthcare: lessons from live clinical deployments 📈 What Tortus AI does and why ambient voice is the future 🎯 Advice for clinician-founders: what Dom would do differently

Dom's story is a candid exploration of leaving a secure clinical career, betting on yourself, and building technology that might actually fix the system you left behind.

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 – Intro: Dr Dom Pimenta — from NHS cardiologist to AI founder
03:45 – Why Dom chose medicine: Catholic upbringing and childhood obsession with death
08:20 – The reality of NHS IT systems and why they fail frontline staff
14:15 – The breaking point: deciding to leave clinical practice
19:30 – Entrepreneur First: how a doctor becomes a venture-backed founder 25:10 – Raising capital from Khosla Ventures as a clinician
31:00 – Building Tortus AI: what it does and how it works
37:45 – Deploying AI in live clinical environments: the ethics and challenges 43:20 – Human-in-the-loop: why AI should assist, not replace, clinicians 49:00 – The future of clinical documentation: ambient voice interfaces
54:30 – Advice for clinicians considering healthtech entrepreneurship
59:00 – What Dom would do differently and lessons learned
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