Healthcare AI Pioneers

Jesse chats with Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Together, they discuss Bob's new book, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future; why the current healthcare AI boom is different from the many past waves of health tech hype; unintended consequences of electronic health records and lessons from the EHR rollout that could guide AI deployment in healthcare; the balance between AI replacing doctors and assisting them; what's preventing AI from reliably outperforming human clinicians; how healthcare systems can guard against automation bias; what healthcare could look like if this "giant leap" succeeds; and much more. Get Bob's new book, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: From BBC News, AI chatbots for medical advice can be risky and even dangerous, according to research from the University of Oxford. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at [email protected].  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay. 

Jesse chats with Dr. Rohit Sangal, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Director of the Clinical Operations and Administration Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Yale; and Chris Chmura, Clinical Operations Manager of Emergency Services at Yale New Haven Hospital. Together, they discuss how Rohit and Chris first gained interest in the AI triage area; the role of the Yale Medical School and the Yale New Haven Hospital in an AI triage initiative; metrics, data, and results from what they've implemented thus far; overcoming challenges with implementation; concerns about AI in the triage area and in healthcare in general; preparing frontline clinicians for the future of healthcare delivery with AI tools; where Yale New Haven could be headed with healthcare AI; and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: C-suite execs are super bullish on AI, according to a recent Sage Growth Partners report. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com. Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at [email protected]. Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

Jesse chats with Lisa Stump, Chief Digital Information Officer at Mount Sinai Health System and Dean for Information Technology of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Dr. Robbie Freeman, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Mount Sinai Health System. Together, they discuss how Mount Sinai Health System thinks about its clinical AI strategy and is implementing scalable programs, how Mount Sinai is using ambient scribing in nursing, using AI to create a program that tracks the risk of pressure ulcers, how Mount Sinai is integrating AI into its research programs, the system's experience in using AI while launching a call center, where Mount Sinai could be headed with healthcare AI in the coming years, and much more. Learn more about Mount Sinai's Pressure Injury AI study at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bz2u-zxf0c. Learn more about Mount Sinai's malnutrition AI study at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVuY7QGIJM.  Jesse also reflects on this key headline: From The New York Times, Microsoft unveiled a tool that will allow users to share records from multiple healthcare providers using its AI Chatbot Copilot. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at [email protected].  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

Jesse chats with Nassib Chamoun, Founder and CEO of Health Data Analytics Institute, and Brenda Campbell, Senior Consultant of Health Systems Innovations at Houston Methodist Hospital. Together, they discuss how Houston Methodist is operationalizing AI within its care delivery system, why it needed to rethink how it identifies and manages high-risk patients post-discharge, how predictive models and AI-generated chart summaries actually show up in a clinician's day-to-day workflow, how AI helps to determine patient care pathways, how positive outcomes can inform AI's role in care optimization, and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: A new American Medical Association survey found that more than four in five physicians now use some form of AI in their practices, more than doubling adoption since 2023. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at [email protected]. Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

AI is moving fast, and in healthcare, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this trailer for Healthcare AI Pioneers, host Jesse Pines, MD, emergency physician, researcher, and author of nearly 400 peer-reviewed publications, introduces a new podcast dedicated to cutting through the hype around healthcare AI. The show focuses on three core areas: clinician-facing AI in diagnosis and treatment, operational AI in areas like revenue cycle and quality improvement, and consumer tools such as ChatGPT and wearables. Each episode features leaders who have implemented AI in real healthcare settings and who share concrete metrics, outcomes, lessons learned, and implementation challenges. No vague promises. No inflated claims. Just practical insight from the people doing the work. Subscribers gain access to bonus episodes covering breaking news, major AI healthcare developments, and curated resources shaping the field. If you want to understand where healthcare AI is actually working—and what it really takes to make it work—this is your starting point.