Sep 16, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
**What if the biggest bottleneck in MedTech innovation isn't science—but compliance?** **In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we sit down with Zahra Timsah, Founder and CEO of i-GENTIC AI, to explore…
Zahra TimsahGuestTom HickeyHost
So if you look at the market nowadays, specifically on AI, you will notice that there is a lot of noise.

Why? Because there is focus on technology, not on the value prop of the technology, value proposition.

What is this technology doing? How is it going to enhance processes? For me, I'm a big believer that if you look at a process that is 100%, only 1, 5, 15% should be AI.

I only felt comfortable doing what I'm doing after I thought like, hey, I have enough expertise whereby the AI can be used to supercharge that expertise and help as many companies, as many people as possible.

And at this point, I don't think anyone should be working in AI and providing it to the mass market, specifically in regulated industries like healthcare and finance.

So yes, I think I've, I know I've been very blessed to have this experience bench to bedside.
And I'm curious as well, you know, we talk to a lot of founders and innovators here on MedTech Gurus.
And many times we see founders look at regulatory as something you manage late in the process.

Usually when you look at companies, when issues emerge at some point later on, like issues when you say like, hey, a medical device was rejected, you received the letter by the FDA, or even you went to the extent of causing harm to patients.

This is a culmination of tiny mistakes that piled up and snowballed all the way into this catastrophe.

Which kind of gives you the mindset that, hey, it shouldn't be just governance at the very end, compliance at the very end.

It should be monitoring and what I like to call governance by design, meaning governance that is baked into each and every step of the process.

And this is very important because it's like you have this ability to look at the processes, to look at the workflows, and flag any tiny issue before, again, everything comes into one ball of catastrophe later on.

So if you look at the market nowadays, specifically on AI, you will notice that there is a lot of noise.

Why? Because there is focus on technology, not on the value prop of the technology, value proposition.

What is this technology doing? How is it going to enhance processes? For me, I'm a big believer that if you look at a process that is 100%, only 1, 5, 15% should be AI.

I only felt comfortable doing what I'm doing after I thought like, hey, I have enough expertise whereby the AI can be used to supercharge that expertise and help as many companies, as many people as possible.

And at this point, I don't think anyone should be working in AI and providing it to the mass market, specifically in regulated industries like healthcare and finance.

So yes, I think I've, I know I've been very blessed to have this experience bench to bedside.
And I'm curious as well, you know, we talk to a lot of founders and innovators here on MedTech Gurus.
And many times we see founders look at regulatory as something you manage late in the process.

Usually when you look at companies, when issues emerge at some point later on, like issues when you say like, hey, a medical device was rejected, you received the letter by the FDA, or even you went to the extent of causing harm to patients.

This is a culmination of tiny mistakes that piled up and snowballed all the way into this catastrophe.

Which kind of gives you the mindset that, hey, it shouldn't be just governance at the very end, compliance at the very end.

It should be monitoring and what I like to call governance by design, meaning governance that is baked into each and every step of the process.

And this is very important because it's like you have this ability to look at the processes, to look at the workflows, and flag any tiny issue before, again, everything comes into one ball of catastrophe later on.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.