Hey Health Techies!

Today I’m bringing to you an interview I did with Dr. Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, CEO and co-founder of Lapsi Health. I had the chance to sit down with him at the ViVE Conference a couple of months ago and talk to him about his experience building at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and hardware.

If you’ve ever felt like tech sounds too complicated or too far removed from your world… this is the kind of perspective you need to hear, straight from a clinician solving a real world problem.

Here’s my conversation with Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, MD 👇

Tell us a little about yourself

Jhonatan: “I’m a physician, originally from South America—Peruvian. I’ve been living in the Netherlands for almost 15 years, working at the intersection between healthcare and technology.

When I arrived in the Netherlands, I had to recertify. During that process, I started working inside medical technology companies… and I fell in love with technology.

I’ve been in multiple companies since then—with many years of successes and failures—and now we’re here.”

What are you building right now?

Jhonatan: “We’re combining conventional machine learning for diagnostics with generative AI applications—things like voice, ambient AI, and evidence search.

The product is called Keikku.

It has a stethoscope side for clinical usage—you can use it for heart and lungs. On the other side, it has a microphone array for ambient acquisition.

You can put it on the table, it transcribes everything, summarizes your notes, gives you ICD-10 codes automatically, and then you can deploy it into your EHR.

We’re also launching a new modality, an agent that searches for evidence. It uses the transcription as context and helps you understand your patient better from a diagnostic perspective or even for differential diagnosis.”

What problem were you originally trying to solve?

Jhonatan: “When we started, we were thinking about microphones and the potential of sound in healthcare.

Stethoscopes are subjective. Using machine learning could help objectify what we’re hearing and maybe even get to a point where we don’t have to listen anymore, and the machine analyzes the sound for us.

But ambient sound is also very rich—coughing, breathing, voice. There are so many things there that haven’t really been exploited in healthcare yet. Right now, we’re only using a part of that for transcription. There’s much more that could be understood.”

A lot of this sounds technical. How did you get your start in tech?

Jhonatan: “When I started, I had no knowledge.

I started from the commercial side and by giving medical input. You bridge your own knowledge with the technology—you understand the intended use. Then you start to notice things. You might think, ‘This could be better.’

And you can recommend that—to the company, to leadership, or even to a company you’re not affiliated with. That can be the beginning of your journey.

In a previous company, a doctor sent us a cold message explaining how they would use our technology differently… and we hired that doctor. These are things that should happen.

You look for ways to bridge the technology with your profession, and then you start learning what you need from there.”

How do clinicians fill gaps in their tech knowledge?

Jhonatan: “As you accumulate more knowledge, you realize that clinicians are very curious—we really love healthcare. Because of that, it becomes interesting to learn about new technologies.

You go to conferences, meet people, have conversations, and your knowledge builds over time.

There are also courses that can help bridge the gap between what you’ve learned informally and what you need for roles like product director or chief medical officer.

For me, I took a course at Imperial College on digital health—it really opened my eyes to what’s possible.”

What advice would you give to clinicians who feel intimidated by tech?

Jhonatan: “Don’t be afraid of learning something new.

Things sound difficult and foreign to all of us at the beginning. It’s not that some people have more capacity to understand technology—it just takes time.

At first, it feels like someone is speaking a different language. But little by little, you start to understand, and you build your knowledge from there.”

What about conferences—are they actually worth it?

Jhonatan: “These conferences are one of the best learning experiences you can have.

You meet people with completely different perspectives—people in sales, marketing, engineering—and you start to understand how technology works in healthcare from different angles.

But beyond that, the connections you make can open doors. For your career. For building a company. For finding a co-founder.

You might meet someone and later think, ‘We were talking about the same thing—why don’t I reach out?’”

My takeaway

If you read this and thought, “this still feels a little over my head”—that’s ok.

Everyone starts there. Not with some master plan, but just by getting closer to it.

And by realizing that what you already know as a clinician is a lot more valuable in this space than you think.

Also check out Keikku. It’s seriously so cool.

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Until next time,

Lauren