Inside Israel's Health Innovation Revolution | Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz, MD - Chief Innovation & Research Officer, Maccabi Healthcare Services

Send us Fan MailCan artificial intelligence really think like a physician - or is it simply predicting words?This week we're joined by Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz, MD, physician, AI entrepreneur, pediatrician, and Chief Innovation & Research Officer at Maccabi Healthcare, one of the world's most advanced healthcare organizations. We explore why the future of medicine isn't just better AI - it's building healthcare systems that learn from every patient.Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz, MD is a physician, technologist, entrepreneur, and healthcare innovation leader who currently serves as Chief Innovation & Research Officer at Maccabi Healthcare Services ( https://www.maccabi4u.co.il/ ), one of Israel’s largest and most advanced healthcare organizations.What makes Dr. Tzuchman-Katz’s story extraordinary is that she has worked across nearly every layer of modern health technology. She began her career as a software engineer, earned her medical degree with honors, trained as a pediatrician, studied genomics and biomedical informatics, and went on to co-found and lead Kahun, an AI-powered clinical reasoning company that developed a knowledge-graph engine containing more than 30 million evidence-based medical insights.At Kahun, Dr. Tzuchman-Katz became a pioneer in explainable AI for physicians, focusing on making AI-generated recommendations transparent, traceable to medical evidence, and aligned with the way clinicians actually think. Today, at Maccabi, Dr. Tzuchman-Katz oversees innovation and research initiatives that leverage one of the world’s richest longitudinal healthcare datasets and biobanks to develop and scale technologies that can improve patient outcomes at population level.Remarkably, while leading innovation for a major healthcare system, Dr. Tzuchman-Katz continues to practice as a pediatrician, giving her a uniquely grounded perspective on the promises and limitations of AI in real clinical care.#HealthcareInnovation #ArtificialIntelligence #MedicalAI #PrecisionMedicine #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #Medicine #Healthcare #Biotech #Genomics #Innovation #FutureOfMedicine #HealthcareData #MachineLearning #MedicalResearch #Pediatrics #PreventiveMedicine #PersonalizedMedicine #PPPSupport the show