The 229 Podcast: Journey From First Ever EMR and Enabling Proactive Care with Deborah Muro

November 20, 2025: Deborah Muro, CIO of El Camino Health, shares her vision for transforming healthcare from reactive to predictive through intelligent use of AI and sensor technology. With 30 AI use cases already deployed across Epic and other platforms, El Camino is pioneering applications from radiology incidental findings to employee sentiment analysis. Deborah discusses the challenges of integrating AI agents into clinical workflows, starting with call centers before expanding to the revenue cycle. She also reveals El Camino's remarkable healthcare IT history as the first U.S. organization to implement an EMR in 1971, partnering with Lockheed Martin to develop what eventually became Allscripts, before their recent Epic transformation.Key Points:03:36 El Camino Journey10:21 AI and Automation in Healthcare16:51 Nursing and Technology Integration19:34 Future of Predictive HealthcareX: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer