We have spent a century building an extraordinary system to fix people once they are broken. What would it take to build one that stops them breaking in the first place? In this episode, Eliot sits down with George Tomeski, founder and CEO of Helfie AI – a personal health AI designed to put early detection and prevention into the hands of anyone with a mobile phone.

George is not a doctor and doesn't pretend to be. He came to this through something painful and personal – his mother's stomach cancer, missed for over a decade despite regular visits to a GP. That experience led him to a bigger question: is her story actually rare, or is it the quiet norm across every healthcare system in the world?

Together, Eliot and George explore the difference between healthcare and health, why every system on the planet – free or paid – shares the same structural flaw of engaging only after breakdown, and what becomes possible when a selfie, a cough, or a photograph can be turned into meaningful clinical signal.

CHAPTERS:

07:16 – The structural flaw in every healthcare system

10:10 – Redefining health: detection, prevention, optimisation

13:52 – Why the time is now: sensors, AI, and mobile phones

15:01 – Human health data as the world's largest data category

17:59 – Reaching the four billion people without access to a doctor

20:41 – Compute-at-sense: the economics of accessibility

21:35 – Inside the Helfie platform: what a selfie can actually detect

24:02 – Cardiovascular, respiratory, STIs and cognitive decline

25:13 – Photoplethysmography and the science of a phone camera

28:23 – Validation, accuracy, and regulatory approval

30:00 – Why deviation from baseline matters more than any single reading

32:03 – Precision medicine, finally made real

34:37 – The behaviour problem: knowing vs. doing

37:28 – 6G towers, ambient sensing, and the future of health infrastructure

38:44 – Cholera pumps, seatbelts, and the plumbing of human health

FOLLOW GEORGE:

George Tomeski: www.linkedin.com/in/gtvs/

Healfie AI: www.helfie.ai/

This podcast was produced by Crisis What Crisis ProductionsWith special thanks to Mintz: life sciences lawyers who help turn scientific breakthroughs into reality. https://www.mintz.com