Healthcare AI Pioneers

Jesse chats with Dr. Jordan Dale, Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer, inaugural Chief Health AI Officer, and Chair of the AI Oversight committee at Houston Methodist. Together, they discuss Houston Methodist's current areas of interest in healthcare AI; the health system's strategy for AI adoption; moving AI from pilot projects into clinical practice and building clinician trust; the overlapping and distinct responsibilities of the information officers and AI officers; Houston Methodist's perspective on AI compared with other health systems; the boundaries between AI's role in clinical care and human judgment; and much more.

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Jesse also reflects on this key headline: From Reuters, AI tools may have added nearly $1 billion in healthcare costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers over two years.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Kelly Bookman, Professor and Vice Chair for Operations for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Senior Medical Director for Informatics at UCHealth; and Dr. Jennifer Simpson, Professor of Clinical Practice in Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Senior Medical Director of Informatics at UCHealth. Together, they discuss UCHealth's implementation of AI scribes across the system and several departments; how they're balancing AI innovation with governance, privacy, and clinical safety; the impact AI scribes has had on clinicians and patients; misconceptions about AI scribes; what the next generation of ambient AI in healthcare could look like; and much more.

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Jesse also reflects on this key headline: UK commission issues 44 recommendations for new regulatory framework for AI in medicine.

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Jesse chats with Jon McManus, Vice President and Chief Data and AI Officer at Inova Health; Dr. Lindsey Stanton, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer at Inova Health; and Dr. Sameh Saleh, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer at Inova Health. Together, they discuss AI's impact on the practice of medicine and in the hospital setting, AI implementation and organizational structure, AI governance and integration with existing governance processes, AI monitoring and performance, AI adoption and barriers to adoption, the future of AI at Inova, and much more.

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Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenAI expands ChatGPT for Healthcare with integration that gives authorized clinicians read-only access to patient information from Epic's electronic health record.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Mark Townsend, Chief Clinical Digital Ventures Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), and Dylan Clark, Chief Analytics and AI Officer at BSMH. Together, they discuss AI strategy and operational problem identification at BSMH; nursing ambient documentation and reducing nursing documentation burden; measuring AI-driven time savings; BSMH's digital assistant, Catherine; AI in patient navigation, scheduling, physician time tracking, contract management, and compliance; navigating partnerships with AI vendors; and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: Survey raises questions about who should benefit from the resulting productivity gains from AI.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Adrian Haimovich, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dr. Smit Desai, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and leader of the Conversational Human-AI Interactions Lab (CHAI Lab). Together, they discuss the potential for AI-powered voice agents in emergency departments and other acute care settings, the challenges these tools are designed to address, why voice may offer advantages over text-based interactions, the technical architecture behind AI voice agents and how it compares with off-the-shelf solutions, the future of voice agents in acute care, the potential for patient-authored notes, and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: The OpenAI Foundation commits $100 million to an initiative aimed at using AI to expand access to advanced medical care, particularly for uninsured and underserved patients.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Judd Hollander, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery Innovation and Chief Virtual Care Officer at Jefferson Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Dr. Bracken Babula, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Jefferson Health and Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University; and Dr. Jennifer Stephens, Enterprise Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Quality & Population Health at Jefferson Health and Enterprise Chief Medical Officer at Jefferson Medical Group. Together, they discuss measuring the impact of AI programs; AI governance and enterprise-wide implementation; reducing clinical administrative burden; ambient listening and documentation tools, including potential nursing applications; symptom checkers and agentic AI; identifying and closing gaps in care management; predictive AI, risk management, and pre-deployment testing; the role of external partnerships in AI strategy; balancing centralized governance with department-level innovation and subject-matter expertise; Jefferson Health's future vision for AI; and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenEvidence and Boston Children's Hospital launch multiyear collaboration to study how clinicians' AI use at point of care influences care delivery patterns.

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Jesse chats with Hamed Zaribafzadeh, Senior Data Scientist in the Department of Surgery at Duke University, and Dr. Michael Kent, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Ambulatory Anesthesiology Division and Associate Vice Chair Perioperative Informatics in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University. Together, they discuss a recent report on healthcare AI at Duke; AI models for scheduling surgeries and allocating surgical resources; how surgeons and informatics experts can work together to better leverage AI; using AI for automating the identification of necessary documentation for surgery authorizations and how it can reduce administrative burden; what could be next for Duke in healthcare AI and LLMs; and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: United Health Group reports AI significantly trimmed medical costs in Q2.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine. Together, they discuss Roxana's journey into the healthcare AI world; recent research on AI performance in healthcare tasks and claims of superhuman AI performance presented as clinical vignettes; takeaways from Health AI Week at Stanford; AI challenges facing medical professionals and patients; using data analysis to guide healthcare AI forward; fears and hopes for healthcare AI in the future; and much more.

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Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenAI moves toward making healthcare a central pillar of its business.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer at OpenEvidence and Assistant Adjunct Professor and AI Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Together, they discuss OpenEvidence's mission and its rapid adoption among physicians; how OpenEvidence differs from general-purpose AI platforms; Travis' background and role at OpenEvidence; the rationale behind the organization's free access model and its long-term vision; partnerships between OpenEvidence and health systems; the organization's impact on clinical decision-making, physician practice, and medical education; the future of OpenEvidence and clinical AI; and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: Rhode Island passes AI scribe opt-out law.

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Jesse chats with Dr. Raj Ratwani, Vice President of Scientific Affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine; and Dr. Ross Filice, Chief of Imaging Informatics, Director of Research in the Department of Radiology, and Professor at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Together, they discuss MedStar Health's integration of an AI clinical decision support tool, "AI Doc," into radiology care; human factors and conditions under which clinical AI tools are likely to work; how radiology residents at Georgetown are allowed to use AI Doc; concerns surrounding deskilling in AI-assisted clinical environments; post-deployment surveillance and monitoring of AI Doc; how to build AI governance structures in healthcare settings; whether AI could eventually replace radiologists; and much more.

Jesse also reflects on this key headline: AMA Adopts Policy Pushing Back on AI Creep in Medicine.

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