Practice at the Speed of Innovation

Decoding Community Oncology: AI, Evidence, and the Gap Between What’s Possible and What’s Delivered
Dr. Manoj Bupathi
President, Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers | Researcher, Sarah Cannon

The tools are finally catching up to the problems we’ve had for decades. Dr. Manoj Bupathi joins the conversation live from ASCO to talk about what it actually takes to close the gap.

In Episode 4 of Practice at the Speed of Innovation™, hosts Dr. Doug Flora, Dr. Sanjay Juneja and Oncologic CEO Clynt Taylor sit down with Dr. Manoj Bupathi to explore how community oncology practices can move from hearing about AI to actually using it  from surfacing buried EMR results to automating clinical trial matching across 55 physicians.

Episode highlights:

• Why flexibility, not rigidity, is the key to physician AI adoption
• How clinical trial matching is the highest-impact first use case for most practices
• The real-world data revolution: why AI may finally make it as reliable as clinical trials
• Why you should start with one pain point, prove it works, then expand
• How to start using AI today before your practice is “ready”

This week’s call to action: Download Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any LLM and just start. Don’t treat it like a search engine, have a conversation.

250 Doctors, 100 Clinics, One Question: Does This Actually Help the Patient?
Lucio N. Gordan, MD
President & Managing Physician, Florida Cancer Specialists | Incoming Chief of Clinical Innovation, McKesson

Scale doesn't dilute mission if the physician stays at the wheel. Lucio Gordan built one of the most data-driven oncology practices in the country, and he's now taking that playbook national.

In Episode 3 of Practice at the Speed of Innovation™, hosts Dr. Doug Flora, Dr. Sanjay Juneja and Oncologic CEO Clynt Taylor sit down with Lucio N. Gordan, MD to explore what it takes to innovate at scale without losing sight of the patient in the chair.

Episode highlights:

• Why AI governance in oncology is a clinical leadership responsibility not an IT function
• How FCS evaluates and deploys new technology across 100+ locations in weeks, not months
• The failure that taught Lucio more than any success
• Why the EMR as we know it may not survive the decade
• What proactive, predictive cancer care actually looks like in 2030 and beyond

This week's call to action: Ask yourself one question before your next leadership meeting: who in your organization owns the connection between your data and your patients? Not who manages the EHR but who is the clinical leader making sure every tool, every algorithm, every data-driven decision answers the question that matters: is this helping the person in the chair? If you don't have that person, you just found your most important hire.

What a Software Developer Learned Running a Cancer Center

Jeff Hunnicutt
COO of Navista | Former CEO of Highlands Oncology Group

AI isn’t a product you install. It’s a capability your practice has to build. Jeff Hunnicutt shares what oncology leaders need to get right before the technology ever arrives.

In Episode 2 of Practice at the Speed of Innovation™, hosts Dr. Doug Flora, Dr. Sanjay Juneja and Oncologic CEO Clynt Taylor sit down with Jeff Hunnicutt, COO of Navista and former CEO of Highlands Oncology Group, to explore the infrastructure, discipline and culture required to successfully adopt AI in community oncology.

Episode highlights:

• Why you can’t automate what you haven’t organized
• How to build a culture of change before introducing new technology
• Why practices should start with one high-impact AI use case but choose partners capable of doing more
• How to evaluate, iterate and scale AI without sacrificing trust

This week’s call to action: Pick the three most important clinical or operational questions your practice should be able to answer with its own data, and find out if you can actually answer them today. If you can, you’re closer to AI readiness than you think. If you can’t, you just found your first project.

In the first episode of Practice at the Speed of Innovation™, hosts Dr. Doug Flora, Dr. Sanjay Juneja and the Oncologic CEO Clynt Taylor sit down with Emily Touloukian (President and CEO of Coastal Cancer Center and COA board member) for an unfiltered conversation about what it actually takes to bring AI and digital health into a community oncology practice.

Episode highlights:
• Why 40% of AI pitches don't solve a real problem and how to vet the ones that do
• How to manage change with physicians who've practiced the same way for 30 years
• The co-pilot model for AI in community oncology
• Why point solutions are losing ground to integrated platforms

This week's call to action: Gather your clinical leadership for 30 minutes, and ask one question: What’s the single biggest friction point in your patient care workflow right now, and can AI technology help with that?