Dr. John R. Dayton is an emergency physician and healthcare innovator who co-led one of the first academic-private incubators at Stanford. In this episode of Ardexia insights podcast, conversation, we explore the critical gap between pilot success and real-world adoption—and what it takes to bridge it.

Episode 1 of the Ardexia Podcast: Healthcare organizations are rushing to adopt AI, but most are missing the critical piece that determines success or failure: governance. In our first episode of the Ardexia podcast, I sat down with Dr. Sarah Gebauer, founder of Validara Health and a physician who uniquely combines clinical practice as an anesthesiologist with AI governance expertise honed at RAND Corporation.The conversation revealed a truth that every healthcare leader needs to understand: the technology isn't the problem. Implementation is.