<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Kevin Choi lost half his vision to glaucoma at the age of 26, which led him to cofound Mediwhale, a healthtech startup that uses AI to detect critical diseases.</li><li>Mediwhale's technology primarily focuses on screening for cardiovascular, kidney, and eye diseases through non-invasive retinal scans, helping with faster and early detection of silent killers like heart and kidney diseases.</li><li>Choi believes AI can assist healthcare providers in making quicker and smarter decisions in screening, but he emphasizes that AI is not a substitute for doctors who can provide nuanced decision-making beyond data points.</li><li>While AI can streamline processes and flag risk levels, doctors are essential in understanding patients' emotional states, behaviors, and guiding complex decision-making processes that go beyond pure data analysis.</li></ul>

He lost half his vision to glaucoma. Now he's using AI to help spot disease — but he says tech will never replace doctors.

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