EPISODE · Feb 15, 2026 · 54 MIN
S1, E24 - Bob Wachter, MD | A Giant Leap: AI in Healthcare
from Practical AI in Healthcare · host Steven Labkoff, MD and Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD
Bob Wachter wrote the book on the EHR disaster. Now he's written one about AI.The UCSF Chair of Medicine joins hosts Steve Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit to discuss A Giant Leap, his argument that AI doesn't need to be perfect—it needs to beat a healthcare system already failing at scale. They cover Watson's $3B collapse, why ambient scribes became AI's first clinical success story, the human-in-the-loop problem that nobody has solved, and the dangerous gap between how experts and novices use AI tools.Key topics: productivity paradox, complementary innovations, clinical decision support design, AI literacy, and the "compare me to the alternative" thesis.The link to the book can be found here: https://a.co/d/07JFNwIw
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Bob Wachter wrote the book on the EHR disaster. Now he's written one about AI.The UCSF Chair of Medicine joins hosts Steve Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit to discuss A Giant Leap, his argument that AI doesn't need to be perfect—it needs to beat a healthcare system already failing at scale. They cover Watson's $3B collapse, why ambient scribes became AI's first clinical success story, the human-in-the-loop problem that nobody has solved, and the dangerous gap between how experts and novices use AI tools.Key topics: productivity paradox, complementary innovations, clinical decision support design, AI literacy, and the "compare me to the alternative" thesis.The link to the book can be found here: https://a.co/d/07JFNwIw
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