Stanford Medicine | AI in Healthcare

A fast-paced Stanford Healthcare AI podcast episode with Optum Insight CEO Sandeep Dadlani exploring how large healthcare enterprises are actually using AI today. The conversation covers the shift from simple chatbots to long-running agentic workflows, the exploding costs and risks of LLM tokens, model choice and “lock-in” (including GLM 5.2), and why AI is rapidly becoming the business, not just a project. 

Recorded on location at Stanford Medicine’s Health AI Week, Matt Lungren and Justin Norden sit down with leaders from healthcare, life sciences, and industry to separate hype from progress in medical AI. Guests: Sue Sheridan, President and CEO, Patients for Patient Safety US Chris Boerner, Board Chair and CEO, Bristol Myers Squibb Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare, NVIDIA Ed Kim (Edward Sanghyun Kim), Physician-in-Chief and Senior Vice President, City of Hope Orange County Arati Prabhakar, Former Science and Technology Advisor to President Biden and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Guest DJ Patil, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, along with hosts Matthew Lungren and Justin Norden, highlight the explosive growth of tools like Open Evidence and GPT for clinicians, rising patient engagement, and the moral question of whether powerful AI should be gated or widely accessible.