Listening Deeper: The AI Stethoscope Reimagined - Lapsi Health

What if the stethoscope, one of medicine's oldest tools, could also document your notes, analyze your patient's voice, and monitor a newborn in the NICU around the clock?

Our latest episode features Dr. Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, co-founder and CEO of Lapsi Health, a physician born in Peru, medically trained in Cuba, and now building the future of clinical AI out of the Netherlands. His story is one of relentless risk-taking: at 14, he cold-approached a Nobel Prize winner backstage and turned it into a 26-year mentorship. That same instinct drives everything he builds today.

Together with his wife and co-founder Dr. Diana Vvan Stijn, a former Dutch national synchronized swimmer turned pediatric cardiologist, Jhonatan is building Keikku, an FDA Class II cleared device that combines a digital stethoscope, an ambient scribing microphone, and soon, voice biomarker analysis into a single wearable platform. The goal is to do for clinical AI what the iPhone did for consumer tech: converge fragmented tools into one seamless experience.

Lapsi Health achieved all of this with less than $6 million raised, navigating hundreds of investor rejections along the way, because no one wants to fund hardware.

Jhonatan's message to the medical innovation community is direct: don't just keep tweaking scribing software. The real value of a consultation lies in combining what you hear from your patient verbally with what you hear physiologically, and AI needs to bridge both.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in clinical AI, medical hardware, diagnostic innovation, or building category-defining companies against the odds.