AI Enhances Multilingual Patient Care with Insights from Jaide Health CEO Joe Corkery, MD
Joe Corkery , MD, CEO and Co-Founder of Jaide Health , joins SlatorPod to discuss how Jaide Health is driving medical interpreting and translation with AI , bridging communication gaps for limited English proficiency ( LEP ) patients and improving healthcare accessibility. With a background in computer science, medicine, and AI product leadership at Google, Joe co-founded Jaide Health with Julie Wilner, RN, in 2023 to address a long-standing need for real-time, interactive communication for the LEP patient population. Unlike older machine translation models, which worked sentence by sentence without context, Joe shares how generative AI can maintain coherence, track gender references, and infer meaning from prior context — crucial in medical settings. The CEO remains pragmatic about Trump’s executive order designating English as the US’s official language and revoking previous language access mandates. He argues that such policies will not change the ...